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Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2009: Is this a joke?
"One-Word Poem" by David R. Slavitt from William Henry Harrison and Other Poems (2006)
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Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2009: Sharks & Roses
"Reading Her Old Letter about a Wedding" by Craig Raine from The Onion, Memory (1978)
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Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2009: Samurai Song
"Samarai Song" by Robert Pinsky from Jersey Rain (2000)
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Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2009: Significadence ain't random
"Las Brujitas" by Tracie Morris from intermission (1998)
Also Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (2007)
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Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2009: reading in the dark
"Hymn for Lota" by Elizabeth Bishop from Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box (2006)
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Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2009: reverie & remember
"Rose Colored City" by Major Jackson from Hoops (2007)
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Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2009: 100% cotton
"The Shirt" by Jane Kenyon from Collected Poems (2005)
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Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2009: The kraken ate my homework
"The Kraken" by Lord Alfred Tennyson from The Poetical Works (1873)
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Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2009: Something I've not done
"Something I've not done" by W.S. Merwin from The Second Four Books of Poems (1992)
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Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2009: half-red sea
"waiting on the mayflower, iii. march 1770" by Evie Shockley from half-red sea (2006)
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Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2009: a single strand
"Rune of the Finland Woman" by Marilyn Hacker from Assumptions (1985)
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Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2009: Berkeley Street Cannibals
"Ballad" by Julia Vinograd from Berkeley Street Cannibals: Selected Poems, 1969-1976
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the small clumsy feet of April [13, Poem-a-Day]
"if i have made,my lady,intricate" by E.E. Cummings from Selected Poems (1994)
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Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2009: Oddly like grace
"What the Angels Left" by Marie Howe from The Good Thief (1987)
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Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2009: in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word
"Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden from Collected Poems (2007)
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Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2009: Some rift between
"Myth" by Natasha Trethewey from Native Guard (2006)
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Poema-del-Dia, 17 de Abril: Corazon malherido
"La Guitarra" by Federico García Lorca from Selected Poems (bilingual edition, 2007)
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Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2009: Un-humm-m! . . . Yes!
"Madam and the Phone Bill" by Langston Hughes from The Collected Poems (1995)
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Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2009: Sonnet = dresser.
"Nothing in That Drawer" by Ron Padgett from Great Balls of Fire (1990)
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Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2009: this midnight moment's forest
"The Thought-Fox" by Ted Hughes from Hawk in the Rain (1957)
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Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2009: Today is weather.
"Hum" by Ann Lauterbach from Hum (2005)
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Poem-a-Earth-Day, April 22, 2009: Long live the weeds
"Invernsaid" by Gerard Manley Hopkins from Poems (1918)
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Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2009: Since it's his birthday...
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" by William Shakespeare from Macbeth (1603-6)
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Dust [Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2009]
"How I Learned To Sweep" by Julia Alvarez from Homecoming (1996)
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Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2009: Or every man be blind
"Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant" by Emily Dickinson from The Complete Poems
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Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2009: alone too, too alone
"28 - Snowline" by John Berryman from The Dream Songs (1969)
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Poem-a-Day, April 27, 2009: Made in Increments
"13/16" by Sherman Alexie from This Business of Fancydancing (1992)
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Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2009: The J Church Line
"The J Car" by Thom Gunn from The Man with Night Sweats (1992)
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Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2009: Do I dare disturb the universe?
"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
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Where It Ends [Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2009]
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)