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Poem-a-Day, April 1, 2012: Happy National Poetry Month!
"The Aerodynamics" by Rick Bursky from Death Obscura (2010)
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Poem-a-Day, April 2, 2012: traveling light
"Traveling Light" by Linda Pastan from Traveling Light (2011)
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Poem-a-Day, April 3, 2012: a dimension lost
"Is Love" by Maya Angelou from I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)
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Poem-a-Day, April 4, 2012: toxic green tuxedos
"Killing Flies" by Michael Dickman from Flies (2011)
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Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2012: haiku-esque
"Iowa, January" by Robert Hass from Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
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Poem-a-Day, April 6, 2012: the heat and howl of Dorothy Allison
"The Dorothy Allison Poem" by Robert McDonald from [PANK] Magazine (October 2010)
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Poem-a-Day, April 7, 2012: a single strand
"Rune of the Finland Woman" by Marilyn Hacker from Assumptions (1985)
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Poem-a-Day, April 8, 2012: Money.
"Money" by Richard Armour from William Leahy's Fundamentals of Poetry (1963)
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Poem-a-Day, April 9, 2012: found poem
"Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out" by found poem by Charles Jensen (2012)
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Poem-a-Day, April 10, 2012: alphabet aerobics
"Everything I Needed to Know" by Karl Elder from The Beloit Poetry Journal (Winter 2003)
"Don Dada on the Down Low Getting Godly in His Game: Between and Beyond Play and Prayer in the Abecedarius" by Matthea Harvey from American Poet magazine (Spring 2006)
"Alphabet Aerobics" by Blackalicious from A2G (1999)
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Poem-a-Day, April 11, 2012: butterflies
"The Butterfly" by Nikki Giovanni from My House (1972)
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Poem-a-Day, April 12, 2012: in spite of all
Endymion Book I (1818) by John Keats
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Poem-a-Day, April 13, 2012: [white field]
"How the mind works still for sure" by Jennifer Denrow from California (2011)
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Poem-a-Day, April 14, 2012: 30 days, 30 grilled cheese
"American (cheese) the Beautiful" by Walt Howat for National Grilled Cheese Month
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Poem-a-Day, April 15, 2012: another beautiful failure
"The Vista" by C. Dale Young
Also "Ode to the Confederate Dead" by Allen Tate, "The Last Charge" by Donald Davidson, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2012: David Bowie wins Pulitzer
"Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?" by Tracy K. Smith from Life on Mars: Poems (2011)
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Poem-a-Day, April 17, 2012: fire, doves, river-water
"The Hour and What Is Dead" by Li-Young Lee from The City In Which I Love You (1990)
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Poem-a-Day, April 18, 2012: The days are beautiful.
"Hum" by Ann Lauterbach from Hum (2005)
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Poem-a-Day, April 19, 2012: cricket song
"Splinter" by Carl Sandburg, included in Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
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Poem-a-Day, April 20, 2012: Concrete.
"Manhattan" by Howard Horowitz from The New York Times (August 30, 1997)
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Poem-a-Day, April 21, 2012: 3,500 dead birds
"Birds Again" by Jim Harrison
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Poem-a-Day, April 22, 2012: Earth took of earth
"Earth Took of Earth" by author unknown (circa 1000)
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Poem-a-Day, April 23, 2012: fearful bravery
"Cowards die many times before their deaths" from Julius Caesar (1599)
by William Shakespeare
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Poem-a-Day, April 24, 2012: O frabjous day!
"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)
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Poem-a-Day, April 25, 2012: Is that a poem in your pocket?
"Dust of Snow" by Robert Frost from New Hampshire (1923),
also included in Collected Poems (1969)
Also Poem in Your Pocket Day by the Academy of American Poets
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Poem-a-Day, April 26, 2012: Blame Picasso.
"What Picasso Did To Me" by Julia Vinograd from Ask A Mask (1999)
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Poem-a-Day, April 27, 2012: Rich
"The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One" by Adrienne Rich
from Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
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Poem-a-Day, April 28, 2012: Sweeping
"How I Learned To Sweep" by Julia Alvarez from Helicon Nine magazine (1985),
also included in her collection Homecoming (1996)
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Poem-a-Day, April 29, 2012: I must've dreamed I was gravity
"Dear Tiara" by Sean Thomas Dougherty from Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (2010)
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Poem-a-Day, April 30, 2012: No time
"End" by Langston Hughes, included in his Selected Poems (1959)