APRIL 2026
1 Alice N. Persons, Stealing Lilacs
2 Vincent Wixon, Tornado Weather
3 Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Fix
4 Gary Johnson, You made crusty bread rolls…
5 Linda Pastan, To a Daughter Leaving Home
6 Ted Kooser, Lobocraspis Griseifusa
7 Jim Harrison, Becoming
8 Ron Wallace, The Friday Night Fights
9 Charles Goodrich, Vacuuming Spiders
10 Rite Dove, Parlor
11 Charles Wright, After Reading T’ao Ch’ing, I Wander Untethered Through the Short Grass
12 Louis Jenkins, Seagulls
13 Jerry Roscoe, Adequate Love
14 Wallace Stevens, The Death of a Soldier
15 Barbara Crooker, Away in Virginia, I See a Mustard Field and Think of You
16 Donald Hall, The Things
17 Marilyn Donnelly, At the Toll Booth
18 Alan Feldman, The Coyote
19 Jeffrey Harrison, The Day Nothing Happened
20 Lawrence Kessenich, Wild Turkeys

MARCH 2026
1 Simon Armitage, The Shout
2 John Stone, Walking the Dog on the Night before He Is to Be Fixed
3 Kenneth Rexroth, Open the Blind
4 Stephen Dobyns, No Map
5 John Updike, Island Cities
6 Emily Dickinson, How happy is the little Stone…
7 Billy Collins, The Chairs That No One Sits In
8 Dana Gioia, The Present
9 Edna St. Vincent Millay, Afternoon on a Hill
10 Luci Shaw, Revival
11 Marjorie Saiser, I Didn’t Think I Would
12 Sneha Madhavan-Reese, To Thousand Island
13 Thomas Lux, Refrigerator, 1957
14 Melinda Burns, Cold
15 Valentina Gnup, Song from the Third Floor
16 Rosie King, Old South School
17 Ray McNiece, His Poem
18 Robert Phillips, Instrument of Choice
19 Kristin Berkey-Abbott, Heaven on Earth
20 C.P. Cavafy, Ithaka
21 Mary Oliver, Today
22 Robert Bly, Wanting Sumptuous Heavens
23 George Bilgere, Big Thing
24 Li-Young Lee, Eating Together
25 Lucille Clifton, Hag-Riding
26 David Young, Ohio
27 Ada Limón, What I Didn’t Know Before
28 Connie Wanek, Directions
29 Mark Halliday, Worthy
30 Miroslav Holub, Napoleon
31 Louis Simpson, Graduation