DECEMBER 2025

1 Joshua Mehigan, At Home

2 J. Allyn Rosser, What Humans Want​

3 Carol Ann Duffy, You​

4 Jeffrey Harrison, Commuter Buddhist​

5 Jim Harrison, Fence Line Tree​

6 Madelyne Camrud, This Winter Worse Than Most​

7 Richard Wilbur, Boy at the Window​

8 Bill Jones, To Sara, 1999

9 Robert Morgan, Funny Books​

​10 Howard Nemerov, Fiction​

11 Ted Kooser, January 12​

12 Anne Porter, A November Sunrise​

13 Louis Simpson, After Midnight​

14 Wendy Cope, Being Boring​

15 George Bilgere, Polar Bear​

16 Tony Hoagland, Hard Rain​

17 Gary Snyder, Changing Diapers​

18 Jo McDougall, Bringing In the Sheaves​

​19 Thomas Lux, A Delivery of Dung​

20 Carrie Shipers, Vocational Training​

21 Kareem Tayyar, On Turning 37​

22 Jack Ridl, After Spending the Morning Baking Bread​

23 Dan Brown, As Seen at the Uffizi​

24 Thomas Hardy, The Oxen​

25 May Sarton, Christmas Light​

26 Valentina Gnup, American Meditation​

27 Frank O’Hara, Why I Am Not a Painter​

28 Jim Daniels, Anthem​

​29 Seamus Heaney, Postscript

30 Louis Simpson, Summer Morning​

31 Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush​

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NOVEMBER 2025

1 Michelle Boisseau, At My Brother’s Place

2 Jonathan Greene, The Return​

3 Julia Hartwig, Demand It Courageously​

4 C. K. Williams, Droplets​

5 Frank O’Hara, Lana Turner Has Collapsed!​

6 D. H. Lawrence, Piano​

7 Margaret Atwood, Siren Song​

8 Lawrence Raab, My Life Before I Knew It​

9 Naomi Shihab Nye, So Much Happiness​

10 Galway Kinnell, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, 10​

11 James Doyle, The City’s Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War​

12 Hayden Carruth, The Fantastic Names of Jazz​

13 Thomas Lux, A Little Tooth​

14 Dean Young, Only One of My Deaths​

​15 Joseph Mills, Horses

16 Connie Wanek, Rain Changing to Snow​

17​ William Stafford, Any Morning

18 Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Fifteen Years Later, I See How It Went​

19 Dorianne Laux, Against Endings​

20 Faith Shearin, The Sound of a Train​

21 Tom Hennen, Clouds Rise Like Fish​

22 Joseph Green, The Business of Crows

23 Wendell Berry, Look It Over​​

24 Linda Gregg, Staying After

25 Natalie Shapero, Pennsylvania​

26 Claire Keyes, You Should Avoid Young Children​

27 John N. Morris, The Christmas Letter​

28 Jane Hirshfield, My Life Was the Size of My Life​

29 John Updike, Tools​

30 Hal Sirowitz, Why There Are No More Miracles​

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OCTOBER 2025

1 Kenneth Rexroth, Only Years

2​ Czeslaw Milosz, Incantation

3 Stephen Dobyns, The Invitations Overhead​

4 Miller Williams, Listen

5 B. H. Fairchild, Old Men Playing Basketball​​

6 Susan Olds, Topography

7 Willa Schneberg, Biscuits

8 Robert Bly, Call and Answer​

9 César Vallejo, Black Stone Lying on a White Stone​

10 April Lindner, First Kiss​

11 Matt Cook, Carp Gallbladders​

12 Ginger Andrews, Rolls-Royce Dreams​

13 Leonard Nathan, Boys at the Edge​

14 Ann Stanford, Our Town​

15 Robert Morgan, The Grain of Sound​

16 Rosanna Warren, Summertime​

17 Raymond Carver, Happiness​

18 Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters​

​19 Edward Hirsch, Early Sunday Morning​

20 John Kenney, When Are You Planning to Turn Off Your Kindle?​

21 George Bilgere, Gratitude​

22 Margaret Hasse, Belongings​

​23 Rita Dove, Dawn Revisited

24 Billy Collins, Aimless Love​

25 Marjorie Saiser, Looking Around in the Galaxy​

26 Dean Young, Skipping the Reception​

27 Mark Halliday, Do It Deftly​

28 Dana Gioia, Marriage of Many Years​

29 Ron Koertge, Books on Tape​

30 Elton Glaser, Swerve​

31 William Meredith, Parents​

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SEPTEMBER 2025

1 Henri Cole, Oil & Steel

​2 Andrea Carlisle, Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List

3​ Linda Pastan, Late Afternoon, St. John

4 Ted McMahon, Rendezvous​

5 Robinson Jeffers, Carmel Point​​

6​ Jane Kenyon, Man Eating

7 Susan Deborah King, Toast​

8 Stephen Cushman, Beside the Point​

9 Charles O. Hartman, Ticket​

10 Catherine Jagoe, Man in a Parking Lot​

11 Charlotte Parsons, Nine-Eleven​

12 Carl Dennis, We​

13 William Stafford, What’s in My Journal​

14 Matt Cook, A Girl in Milwaukee and a Girl in Brooklyn ​

15 George Bilgere, Once Again I Fail to Read an Important Novel​

16 Thomas Lux, Regarding (Most) Songs​

17 David Lehman, A History of Modern Poetry​

​18 Elise Partridge, Supermarket Scanner

19 James Richardson, Another End of the World​

20 Edwin Romond, Willy Loman​

21 Susan Cataldo, At the Children’s Violin Concert​

22 Leslie Monsour, The Bachelor​

23 Yosa Buson, On the One-Ton Temple Bell​

24 Philip F. Deaver, The Worriers’ Guild​

25 Tom Chandler, Ten Degrees​

26 Gregory Orr, Father’s Song​

27 Charles Simic, Serving Time​

​28 Howard Nemerov, Learning by Doing

29 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind, Number 20​

​30 John Updike, Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children​

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AUGUST 2025

1 Naomi Shihab Nye, Jerusalem

2 Ron Carlson, The Neighborhood So Far​

3 Muriel Spark, The Lonely Shoe Lying on the Road​

4 Charles Darling, At the Airport Baggage Claim​

5 Ellie Schoenfeld, Patriotism​

6 Shari Wagner, The Farm Wife Sells Her Cows​

7 Mark Perlberg, Real Estate​

8 Jerry Roscoe, Bouquet​

9 Stanley Plumly, Glenn Gould​

10 Joyce Sutphen, Bookmobile​

11 Laure-Anne Bosselaar, A Parisian Blackbird​

​12 Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Courage That My Mother Had

13 Stuart Kestenbaum, Harmony

14 Kirsten Dierking, Nuthatch​

15 Anne Sexton, Young​

16 Paul Zimmer, A Final Affection​

17 Faith Shearin, Smoke​

18 Patricia Fargnoli, The Undeniable Pressure of Existence

19 T.R. Hummer, Who Remembers Davenport​

20 Leonard Nathan, Out on the Flats​​

21 Abigail Gramig, Requiem​

22 X. J. Kennedy, A Scandal in the Suburbs​

23 Cindy Gregg, Thoughtful Voyeur: Woman and Cantaloupe​

24 Tom Hennen, From a Country Overlooked​

25 Eavan Boland, The Necessity for Irony​

26 Lisel Mueller, Fiction​

27 Philip Larkin, Wires​

28 Jane Kenyon, April Chores​

29 Louise Bogan, The Dragonfly​

30 Steve Kowit, Small Boats​​

31 Ken Hada, Old Men

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JULY 2025

1 Ginger Andrews, Prayer

​2 Lucille Clifton, note, passed to superman

3 Wislawa Szymborska, Some Like Poetry​

4 Walt Whitman, America​

5 Barbara Crooker, American Robin

6 Connie Wanek, Long Nights​

7 Nancy Miller Gomez, Growing Apples​

8 Alan Berecka, The Great Escape​

9 Ron Wallace, The Facts of Life

10 Thomas Lux, The First Song​

11 Danusha Laméris, Today the Pleasures​

12 David Lehman, March 8​

13 David Moreau, Borrowed Time​

14 Howard Nemerov, A Primer of the Daily Round​

15 Jane Kenyon, Otherwise​

​16 Billy Collins, Oh, My God!​

17 Wendy Cope, Postcards​

18 David Lee, Veal, 1948​

19 Christopher Kempf, National Anthem​

20 Charles Simic, Summer Morning​

21 George Bilgere, Stolpersteine​

22 ​Philip Metres, One Tree

23 Marjorie Saiser, Final Shirt​

24 Ada Limón, Almost Forty​

25 Rhina Espaillat, When We Sold the Tent​

26 Nancy Krygowski, Weed Whacker​

27 David Allen Sullivan, Dragonflies at Dawn​

28 Kari Gunter-Seymour, Amesville Girls​

29 Leslie Monsour, Fifties Music​

30 Tom C. Hunley, I Do What I Can​

31 Marie Howe, Hurry​​