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Poetry Town Newsletters
This free email newsletter is delivered daily to your inbox. Every day George selects a poem by a writer he’s crazy about and he says a few words about why he picked it. Use the Subscribe button on the bottom of this page to receive Poetry Town tomorrow.
FEBRUARY 2026
1 Jo McDougall, Paying Attention
2 Stanley Kunitz, Touch Me
3 Robert Morgan, Rearview Mirror
4 Gary Snyder, We Make Our Vows Together with All Beings
5 Jim Dodge, Mahogany China
6 Frank O’Hara, Today
7 Stuart Kestenbaum, Starting the Subaru at Five Below
8 Carrie Fountain, Heaven
9 Robert Phillips, Skyscrapers
10 John Arthur, America’s Favorite Playground
11 Vachel Lindsay, The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
12 Tony Hoagland, Fortune
13 Tracy K. Smith, My God, It’s Full of Stars
14 George Bilgere, How I Met Your Mother
15 Jim Daniels, The Crucial Lack of Redemption
16 Natasha Trethewey, Graveyard Blues
17 Thomas Hardy, I Look Into My Glass
18 Billy Collins, The Collar
JANUARY 2026
1 Richard Alan Taylor, The Next Generation of Mourning
2 Jack Gilbert, Scheming in the Snow
3 Christopher Howell, Dinner Out
4 Charles Bukowski, No. 6
5 Paul Muldoon, Sonogram
6 May Sarton, Moose in the Morning
7 Stephen Dunn, Briefcases
8 Kathleen Flenniken, Natural History
9 Kirsten Dierking, Greenwich
10 David Citino, Hair
11 Alden Nowlan, Great Things Have Happened
12 Krista Lukas, Morning
13 T.R. Poulson, 573992
14 William Reichard, Dream Home
15 Dana Gioia, Majority
16 Ellen Goldsmith, The Secret of Life
17 Kim Addonizio, My Heart
18 Louis Jenkins, The Couple
19 David Ignatow, Death of a Lawn Mower
20 Diane Lockward, After the Ice Storm My Son Does Not Come Home
21 Bill Knott, The Fate
22 Dan Gerber, Doing Nothing
23 Naomi Shihab Nye, The Art of Disappearing
24 X. L. Kennedy, Street Moths
25 Robert Long, The Muse and I Are Alone
26 Daniel Donaghy, Three Houses, Three Dogs
27 Tom Chandler, 1943 Steel Penny
28 Linda Pastan, Wherever We Travel
29 Gwendolyn Brooks, a song in the front yard
30 James Crews, Awe
31 Bob Hicok, Calling Him Back from Layoff
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