Poem of the Week
The ever-evolving COVID-19 situation has disrupted our daily lives, forcing us to adapt to new realities of quarantine and social distancing. As plans and routines are put aside, many of us find ourselves with unusually large amounts of free time. Rather than be paralyzed by boredom, the Hart Leadership Program invites you to use this newfound time as an opportunity for reflection. Critical reflection is critical for leadership development and is something we emphasize in our courses. Reflection helps us make sense of the world and our role in it.
We also know that poets and poetry have a long track record of expanding our capacity for seeing and understanding complexity, and for discovering insight, empathy, and a capacity to act in the face of unmoving obstacles.
To that end, we are transitioning our Poem of the Day intiative to Poem of the Week, which can be found and read here, as well as on our Facebook page. We are fortunate to have the wisdom and leadership of Hart Professor and creative writing teacher Faulkner Fox to lead us in this project, alongside Associate in Research Ana Ramirez. Each Monday, we will post a new a poem, while previous poems will continue to be accessible on our website for as long as social distancing is our watch-word. We strongly encourage you to share any reactions to the poems to info@hart.sanford.duke.edu. Please also pass along poems that have brought you comfort, insight, and strength. Looking to read more comforting poems? Check out the Shelter in Poems initiative.
Week of July 19th – “The Promise” by Jane Hirshfield
Week of July 12th – “The Language of Joy” by Jacqueline Allen Trimble
Week of July 5th – “what can a poem do?” by Darius V. Daughtry
Week of June 28th – “Whenever you see a tree” by Padma Venkatraman
Week of June 21st – “Concrete” by Xaire
Week of June 14th – “Everything Needs Fixing” by Karla Cordero
Week of June 7th – “Want Could Kill Me” by Xandria Phillips
Week of Monday, May 31st – “Born Frees” by Pamela Sneed
Week of Monday, May 24th – “The Waiting” by Jane Wong
Saturday, May 15th – “Every Day Is A Trans Day” by H. Melt
Friday, May 14th – “Clarification Card: The Spiral (“The cigarette is pretext: smoke rises from within”)” by Hari Alluri
Thursday, May 13th – “This is the city that I love” by Rosemary Ferreira
Wednesday, May 12th – “My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment” by Sandra M. Castillo
Tuesday, May 11th – “Prayer for those who run” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Monday, May 10th – “Tonsure” by Kevin Young
Sunday, May 9th – “Stone” by Aideed Medina
Saturday, May 8th – “The Gardener 38” by Rabindranath Tagore
Friday, May 7th – “believe me” by leilani portillo
Thursday, May 6th – “Ode to Jacob Blinder” by Janlori Goldman
Wednesday, May 5th – “Tonight: Rebellious Resistance” by Naomi Ortiz
Tuesday, May 4th – “Freedom” by Langston Hughes
Monday, May 3rd – “God or a Lottery Ticket in a Black Woman’s Purse” by Angelique Palmer
Sunday, May 2nd – “From “Shadow Poems” by Jennifer Foerster
Saturday, May 1st – “Judicial Temperament” by Dan Vera
Friday, April 30th – “Makin’ Jump Shots” by Michael S. Harper
Thursday, April 29th – “Of Avocados” by Juan J. Morales
Wednesday, April 28th – “We” by Deborah A. Miranda
Tuesday, April 27th – “The More Loving One” by W. H. Auden
Monday, April 26th – “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” by Ross Gay
Sunday, April 25th – “After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning” by Leila Chatti
Saturday, April 24th – “Experience” by Trapeta B. Mayson
Friday, April 23rd – “Menace to” by Taylor Johnson
Thursday, April 22nd – “Next Time Ask More Questions” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Wednesday, April 21st – “Hole” by Naomi Ayala
Tuesday, April 20th – “Dawn Feeding” by Leslie Ullman
Monday, April 19th – “A History of Domestication” by Sun Yung Shin
Sunday, April 18th – “Psalm 150” by Jericho Brown
Saturday, April 17th – “My Einsteinicity” by Lynne Thompson
Friday, April 16th – “Ghost” by Cynthia Huntington
Thursday, April 15th – “How Music Stays in the Body” by Lee Herrick
Wednesday, April 14th – “Pastoral” by Forrest Gander
Tuesday, April 13th – “On Doubt and Bad Reviews” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Monday, April 12th – “Ramadan” by Kazim Ali
Sunday, April 11th – “Like That” by Alexandria Peary
Saturday, April 10th- “Things No One Knows” by Wanda Coleman
Friday, April 9th – “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams
Thursday, April 8th – “Apprenticed to Justice” by Kimberly Blaeser
Wednesday, April 7th – “iced out chain from the beauty supply by Halsted Indoor Mall” by Nate Marshall
Tuesday, April 6th – “DetoNation” by Ocean Vuong
Monday, April 5th – “Memory is Blood Soluble” by Brian Sneeden
Sunday, April 4th – “La suavecita” by Lupe Mendez
Saturday, April 3rd – “If—” by Rudyard Kipling
Friday, April 2nd – “One More Love Poem” by Dunya Mikhail
Thursday, April 1st – “Sick” by Shel Silverstein
Wednesday, March 31st – “A Rogue Dream” by Melanie Figg
Tuesday, March 30th – “Describing Tattoos to a Cop” by Brenda Hillman
Monday, March 29th – “I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)” by Emily Dickinson
Sunday, March 28th – “The sedaer’s order” by Marge Piercy
Saturday, March 27th – “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Friday, March 26th – “we ask mama-n-em, “where is the motherworld?” by Destiny Hemphill
Thursday, March 25th – “How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?” by Cyrus Cassells
Wednesday, March 24th – “Equinox” by Tamiko Beyer
Tuesday, March 23rd – “La suavecita” by Lupe Mendez
Monday, March 22nd – “The Birth” by Dorothea Lasky
Sunday, March 21st – “Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich
Saturday, March 20th – “Voicemail From My Mother” by Robert Lynn
Friday, March 19th – “Black Credit” by Natasha Oladokun
Thursday, March 18th – “The Applicant” by Sylvia Plath
Wednesday, March17th – “Ex(ile)” by Desiree C. Bailey
Tuesday, March16th – “Woman in Dub” by Desiree C. Bailey
Monday, March 15th – “23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart” by Alessandra Narváez Varela
Sunday, March 14th – “Who Am I, Without Exile?” by Mahmoud Darwish
Saturday, March 13th – “Green Flame” by Pamela Uschuk
Friday, March 12th – “That Country” by Grace Paley
Thursday, March 11th – “Wasteland: on the California Wildfires” by Forrest Gander
Wednesday, March 10th – “Beauty” by Ariana Reines
Tuesday, March 9th – “Love in Outer Space” by Alison C. Rollins
Monday, March 8th – “WWE” by Fatimah Asghar
Sunday, March 7th – “Dreams” by Langston Hughes
Saturday, March 6th – “The Map” by Marie Howe
Friday, March 5th – “Tomorrow is a Place” by Sanna Wani
Thursday, March 4th – “Duplex” by Jericho Brown
Wednesday, March 3rd – “Black Heroism is Unskilled Labor” by Xandria Phillips
Tuesday, March 2nd – “1967, Girl and Snow” by Corrinne Clegg Hales
Monday, March 1st – “Twizzlers” by Pamela Sneed
Sunday, February 28th – “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison”]” by Terrance Hayes
Saturday, February 27th – “In the Vault of Morning” Canisia Lubrin
Friday, February 26th – “My Mother Says” by Kimberly Bruss
Thursday, February 25th – “Skin Tight” by Ishmael Reed
Wednesday, February 24th – “I Have Been Living” by Jane Mead
Tuesday, February 23rd – “Six” by Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Monday, February 22nd – “Mississippi Border” by Maria Zoccola
Sunday, February 21st – “Terpsichore” by Assétou Xango
Saturday, February 20th – “Breaking & Entering” by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Friday, February 19th – “Caretaker” by Charleen McClure
Thursday, February 18th – “The blue nightgown” by Toi Derricotte
Wednesday, February 17th – “How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished?” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Tuesday, February 16th – “City of Grace” by James Adam York
Monday, February 15th – “American Smooth” by Rita Dove
Sunday, February 14th – “These Hands, If Not Gods” by Natalie Diaz
Saturday, February 13th – “Nothing to Declare” by Lauren K. Alleyne
Friday, February 12th – “February” by Lisa Lewis
Thursday, February 11th – “Undoing” by Khadijah Queen
Wednesday, February 10th – “Everything Good between Men and Women” by C.D. Wright
Tuesday, February 9th – “Revery” by Fenton Johnson
Monday, February 8th – “Art & Craft” by Robin Coste Lewis
Sunday, February 7th – “What of Fire?” by Marcus Jackson
Saturday, February 6th – “Half Girl, Then Elegy” by Omotara James
Friday, February 5th – “Disbelief” by Kamilah Aisha Moon
Thursday, February 4th – “Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking” by Karen Brodine
Wednesday, February 3rd – “Notes on the Peanut” by June Jordan
Tuesday, February 2nd – “Altogether Elsewhere” by Tess Taylor
Monday, February 1st – “Reparation” by Joshua Bennett
Sunday, January 31st – “May I Go Now?” by Susan A. Jackson
Saturday, January 30th – “Ode on an Abandoned House” by Hayan Charara
Friday, January 29th – “Black Parade” by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Thursday, January 28th – “Hard Night” by Christian Wiman
Wednesday, January 27th – “Nó, Actually, Soy Salvadoreño” by Javier Zamora
Tuesday, January 26th – “STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED: On Imagining That Freedom Probably Feels Like Getting the Itis” by Jacqui Germain
Monday, January 25th – “What Schools Don’t Teach Black Boys in America Today” by John Warner Smith
Sunday, January 24th – “poem where no one is deported” by José Olivarez
Saturday, January 23rd – “Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street” by Momtaza Mehri
Friday, January 22nd – “‘Inaugural,’ an Original Poem” by Jericho Brown
Thursday, January 21st – “On the Pulse of Morning” by Maya Angelou
Wednesday, January 20th – “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman
Tuesday, January 19th – “To Rebuild” by Hallie K.
Monday, January 18th – “The B-Sides of the Golden Records, Track Five: “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” by Sumita Chakraborty
Sunday, January 17th – “Still Life with Toy Gun” by Joshua Bennett
Saturday, January 16th – “Busking” by Kevin Young
Friday, January 15th – “Fracture” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Thursday, January 14th – “The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart” by Eloisa Amezcua
Wednesday, January 13th – “When The Patient Asked For A White Doctor” by Seema Yasmin
Tuesday, January 12th – “Love in Outer Space” by Alison C. Rollins
Monday, January 11th – “Match” by Jason Reynolds
Sunday, January 10th – “Silence” by Babette Deutsch
Saturday, January 9th – “Rust Honey” by Zach Savich
Friday, January 8th – “In This Place (An American Lyric)” by Amanda Gorman
Thursday, January 7th – “More Than Something Else” by Rainy Dawn Ortiz
Wednesday, January 6th – “Hum” by Ann Lauterbach
Tuesday, January 5th – “Cinderella” by J. R. Solonche
Monday, January 4th – “Crush, Supermarket, California” by Jan-Henry Gray
Sunday, January 3rd – “Remember” by Joy Harjo
Saturday, January 2nd – “Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther” by A.E. Stallings
Friday, January 1st – “Resolution” by Lia Purpura
Thursday, December 31st – “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Wednesday, December 30th – “First Blood” by Geffrey Davis
Tuesday, December 29th – “Found Fragment on Ambition” by David Tomas Martinez
Monday, December 28th – “For the Consideration of Poets” by Haki R. Madhubuti
Sunday December 27th – “On Growth” by Rae Armantrout
Saturday, December 26th – “Rosa Parks” by Nikki Giovanni
Friday, December 25th – “The Waits” by Margaret Deland
Thursday, December 24th – “Christmas, 1970” by Sandra Castillo
Wednesday, December 23rd – “Polar Night” by Lewis Warsh
Tuesday, December 22nd – “Jasmine” by Nate Klug
Monday, December 21st – “For My People” by Margaret Walker
Sunday, December 20th – “Ars Poetica” by Mónica Gomery
Saturday, December 19th – “Wonder” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Friday, December 18th – “Meditation at Decatur Square” by Natasha Trethewey
Thursday, December 17th – “Essay on Thunder” by Sumita Chakraborty
Wednesday, December 16th – “I am my own foundation.” by R. Erica Doyle
Tuesday, December 15th – “Becoming a Ghost” by Tanaya Winder
Monday, December 14th – “Self-Portrait as George Washington’s Teeth” by Malcolm Tariq
Sunday, December 13th – “Amphibious” by Aimee Suzara
Saturday, December 12th – “Let It Be Known” by Margaret Burroughs
Friday, December 11th – “Waiting for Happiness” by Nomi Stone
Thursday, December 10th – “She Told Me the Earth Loves Us” by Anne Haven McDonnell
Wednesday, December 9th – “One Night Only” by Sarah Gambito
Tuesday, December 8th – “John Lennon” by Mary Jo Salter
Monday, December 7th – “In Praise of Dreams” by Gary Soto
Sunday, December 6th – “Hickory Street, New Orleans” by Yona Harvey
Saturday, December 5th – “Consume/d” by Fred L. Joiner
Friday, December 4th – “Chicago and December” by W.S. Di Piero
Thursday, December 3rd – “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
Wednesday, December 2nd – “Old South Meeting House” by January Gill O’Neil
Tuesday, December 1st – “Wonder Woman” by Angelo Geter
Monday, November 30th – “The Promise We Live By” by Simon J. Ortiz
Sunday, November 29th – “The Secret of Youth” by Micah Daniels
Saturday, November 28th – “A Song on the End of the World” by Czeslaw Milosz
Friday, November 27th – “Why I Love Thee?” by Sadakichi Hartmann
Thursday, November 26th – “Dance Practice” by Ishmael Angaluuk Hope
Wednesday, November 25th – “Social Distancing” by Juan Felipe Herrera
Tuesday, November 24th – “Peace” by Leslie Ullman
Monday, November 23rd – “To Live in the Borderlands” by Gloria Anzaldua
Sunday, November 22nd – “Sorrow Is Not My Name” by Ross Gay
Saturday, November 21st – “A Picture” by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
Friday, November 20th – “You, If No One Else” by Tino Villanueva
Thursday, November 19th – “In the Evening” by William Reichard
Wednesday, November 18th – “Hysterical Strength” by Nicole Sealey
Tuesday, November 17th – “Words Are Birds” by Francisco X. Alarcón
Monday, November 16th – “Out of Metropolis” by Lynn Emanuel
Sunday, November 15th – “At the Justice Department November 15, 1969” by Denise Levertov
Saturday, November 14th – “She longed to be an island” by Majorie Agosín
Friday, November 13th – “Beverly Hills, Chicago” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Thursday, November 12th – “Untitled” by Jason Shinder
Wednesday, November 11th – “Blue” by Carl Phillips
Tuesday, November 10th – “A Woman Speaks” by Audre Lorde
Monday, November 9th – “I, Too” by Langston Hughes
Sunday, November 8th – “Liberation” by Shauna Barbosa
Saturday, November 7th – “Kissing the Opelu” by Donovan Kūhiō Colleps
Friday, November 6th – “Occidentalism” by Sally Wen Mao
Thursday, November 5th – “Metamorphosis” by Jenny Xie
Wednesday, November 4th – “to the notebook kid” by Eve L. Ewing
Tuesday, November 3rd – “Vote” by Nikki Giovanni
Monday, November 2nd – “Dear Woke Brown Girl” by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
Sunday, November 1st – “Ways I Am Tired” by Fatimah Asghar
Saturday, October 31st – “The Vampire” by Delmira Agustini
Friday, October 30th – “My God, It’s Full of Stars” by Tracy K. Smith
Thursday, October 29th – “The Last Day My Father Spent in Mexico” by Antonio Lopez
Wednesday, October 28th – “Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas” by Brenda Cárdenas
Tuesday, October 27th – “Wild nights – Wild nights! (269)” by Emily Dickinson
Monday, October 26th – “homage to my hips” by Lucille Clifton
Sunday, October 25th – “Beginning” by James Wright
Saturday, October 24th – “America, I Sing Back” by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Friday, October 23rd – “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith
Thursday, October 22nd – “Election Year” by Richard Blanco
Wednesday, October 21st – “i grew up with god in my mouth” by Mejdulene B. Shomali
Tuesday, October 20th – “Let Them Not Say” by Jane Hirshfield
Monday, October 19th – “In This Place (An American Lyric)” by Amanda Gorman
Sunday, October 18th – “Meditations in an Emergency” by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Saturday, October 17th – “excerpts from ‘Will There Be Singing‘” by Juliana Spahr
Friday, October 16th – “Advice From Rock Creek Park” by Stephanie Burt
Thursday, October 15th – “For the Consideration of Poets” by Haki R. Madhubuti
Wednesday, October 14th – “Love in the City/Amor de Cuidad Grande” by José Martí
Tuesday, October 13th – “Flying Down the Five” by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
Monday, October 12th – “Apologies” by Karenne Wood
Sunday, October 11th – “Basho & Mandela” by Juan Felipe Herrera
Saturday, October 10th – “Gospel of the Misunderstood” by Safiya Sinclair
Friday, October 9th – “Autumn” by Grace Paley
Thursday, October 8th – “The Past” by Louise Glück
Wednesday, October 7th – “Social Death, an Address” by Xandria Phillips
Tuesday, October 6th – “Ode to Teachers” by Pat Mora
Monday, October 5th – “Station” by Maria Hummel
Sunday, October 4th – “A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay
Saturday, October 3rd – “Words” by Dana Gioia
Friday, October 2nd – “Ghazal: America the Beautiful” by Alicia Ostriker
Thursday, October 1st – “Autobiography of Eve” by Ansel Elkins
Wednesday, September 30th – “One Today” by Richard Blanco
Tuesday, September 29th – “The Last Time” by Ada Limón
Monday, September 28th – “At Last the New Arriving” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Sunday, September 27th – “little prayer” by Danez Smith
Saturday, September 26th – “What Do We Do—Now” by Ellen Hagan
Friday, September 25th – “Normal” By Glenn Dizon
Thursday, September 24th – “A Center” by Ha Jin
Wednesday, September 23rd – “the birthday of the world” by Marge Piercy
Tuesday, September 22nd – “September Tomatoes” by Karina Borowicz
Monday, September 21st – “Battlegrounds” by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Sunday, September 20th – “When Great Trees Fall” by Maya Angelou
Saturday, September 19th – “The Pedagogy of Conflict” by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Friday, September 18th – “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
Thursday, September 17th – “Dawn” by Kwame Dawes
Wednesday, September 16th – “Green-Striped Melons” by Jane Hirshfield
Tuesday, September 15th – “Along the Border” by Jasminne Mendez
Monday, September 14th – “Enough” by Suzanne Buffam
Sunday, September 13th – “The Hedgehog” by Lola Haskins
Saturday, September 12th – “Proclamation” by Stuart Dischell
Friday, September 11th – “This Little Island” by James Longenback
Thursday, September 10th – “AUGURY” by Catherine Carter
Wednesday, September 9th – “Are you the new person drawn toward me?” by Walt Whitman
Tuesday, September 8th – “Driving at Night” by Rio Cortez
Monday, September 7th – “What Work Is” by Philip Levine
Sunday, September 6th – “Clear Night” by Charles Wright
Saturday, September 5th – “The Check In” by Nandi Comer
Friday, September 4th – “To the Light of September” by W.S. Merwin
Thursday, September 3rd – “Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings” by Juan Felipe Herrera
Wednesday, September 2nd – “Today, God” by Starr Davis
Tuesday, September 1st – “Catch” by Samiya Bashir
Monday, August 31st – “Epitaph” by Merrit Malloy
Sunday, August 30th – “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander
Saturday, August 29th – “The Garden of Delight” by Lucille Clifton
Friday, August 28th – “Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over” by Joy Priest
Thursday, August 27th – “Defiant” by Patricia Spears Jones
Wednesday, August 26th – “One Child Has Brown Eyes” by Marilyn Chin
Tuesday, August 25th – “Daily Conscription” by Kyle Dargan
Monday, August 24th – “Of History and Hope” by Miller Williams
Sunday, August 23rd – “A House Called Tomorrow” by Alberto Ríos
Saturday, August 22nd – “Enlightenment” by Natasha Tretheway
Friday, August 21st – “Eden, Then and Now” by Ruth Stone
Thursday, August 20th – “Gloves” by José Angel Araguz
Wednesday, August 19th – “Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School” by Christopher Bursk
Tuesday, August 18th – “As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world’s a stage]” by William Shakespeare
Monday, August 17th – “Sentimental Education” by Mary Ruefle
Sunday, August 16th – “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes
Saturday, August 15th – “Follower” by Seamus Heaney
Friday, August 14th – “The Aureole” by Nikky Finney
Thursday, August 13th – “En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith” by Tarfia Faizullah
Wednesday, August 12th – “Translations” by Adrienne Rich
Tuesday, August 11th – “finna” by Nate Marshall
Monday, August 10th – “American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training” by Kortney Morrow”
Sunday, August 9th – “Ativan” by Laura Kasischke
Saturday, August 8th – “Autobiography” by Kazim Ali
Friday, August 7th – “Bodies Like Oceans” by Omotara James
Thursday, August 6th – “fleeing” by Kara Jackson
Wednesday, August 5th – “I started Early – Took my Dog – (656)” by Emily Dickinson
Tuesday, August 4th – “A Word on Statistics” by Wisława Szymborska
Monday, August 3rd – “Kiss” by Indran Amirthanayagam
Sunday, August 2nd – “Stand Up” by Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo
Saturday, August 1st – “Lyric” by Khaled Mattawa
Friday, July 31st – “To a Young Poet” by Mahmoud Dariwsh
Thursday, July 30th – “Red Wine Spills” by L. Ash Williams
Wednesday, July 29th – “A Ritual to Read Each Other” by William E. Stafford
Tuesday, July 28th – “Making Peace” by Denise Levertov
Monday, July 27th – “This Is Not A Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez
Sunday, July 26th – “Little Prayer” by Danez Smith
Saturday, July 25th – “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass
Friday, July 24th – “Fyah Fyah” by Selah Sue
Thursday, July 23rd – “Family Reunion” by Maxine Kunin
Wednesday, July 22nd – “When Puffy says, and we won’ t stop, ’cause we can’t stop.” by Rasheed Copeland
Tuesday, July 21st – “When Night Fills With Premature Exits” by Enzo Silon Surin
Monday, July 20th – “a brief meditation” by Yesenia Montilla
Sunday, July 19th – “Let Everything Happen to You” by Natalie Eilbert
Saturday, July 18th – “War” by Bob Marley
Friday, July 17th – “Wind, Water, Stone” by Octavio Paz
Thursday, July 16th – “Clouds” by Stephen Dobyns
Wednesday, July 15th – “Goodbye to Tolerance” by Denise Levertov
Tuesday, July 14th – “There Are Birds Here” by Jamaal May
Monday, July 13th – “Walking, Blues” by Jane Mead
Sunday, July 12th – “Everything is Everything” by Lauryn Hill
Saturday, July 11th – “The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog” by Alicia Ostriker
Friday, July 10th – “What is Water?” by Danielle Legros Georges
Thursday, July 9th – “Complaint of El Río Grande” by Richard Blanco
Wednesday, July 8th – “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
Tuesday, July 7th – “The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens
Monday, July 6th – “Why I Don’t Write About George Floyd” by Toi Derricotte
Sunday, July 5th – “On Sullivan’s Island” by Malcolm Tariq
Saturday, July 4th – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson
Friday, July 3rd – “Pedestrian Crossing, Charlottesville” by Rita Dove
Thursday, July 2nd – “Que Sera Sera” by A. Van Jordan
Wednesday, July 1st – “Elegy for the Native Guards” by Natasha Trethewey
Tuesday, June 30th – “Photo of a Girl on a Beach” by Carmen Giménez Smith
Monday, June 29th – “From the Dunes” by Cynthia Huntington
Sunday, June 28th – “The Bridge Poem” by Kate Rushin
Saturday, June 27th – “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forché
Friday, June 26th – “ars pasifika” by Craig Santos Perez
Thursday, June 25th – “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
Wednesday, June 24th – “Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)” by Joshua Bennett
Tuesday, June 23rd – “Pigeon and Hawk” by Marilyn Nelson
Monday, June 22nd – “Say This Isn’t The End” by Richard Blanco
Sunday, June 21st – “Dream Variations” by Langson Hughes
Saturday, June 20th – “Rain” by Claudia Rankine
Friday, June 19th – “Emancipation” by Priscilla Jane Thompson
Thursday, June 18th – “In the Company of Women” by January Gill O’Neil
Wednesday, June 17th – “Let Evening Come” by Jane Kenyon
Tuesday, June 16th – “for grandma” by Jaki Shelton Green
Monday, June 15th – “Praise” by Angelo Geter
Sunday, June 14th – “Streams of Living Justice” by William Whitla
Saturday, June 13th – “Let Them Not Say” by Jane Hirshfield
Friday, June 12th – “Recreation” by Audre Lorde
Thursday, June 11th – from “A Coda to History” by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella
Wednesday, June 10th – “In This Place (An American Lyric)” by Amanda Gorman
Tuesday, June 9th – “Give Your Daughters Difficult Names” by Assétou Xango
Monday, June 8th – “The Beauty That Is Never Old” by James Weldon Johnson
Sunday, June 7th – “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron
Saturday, June 6th – “After Arguing Against the Contention That Art Must Come From Discontent” by William E. Stafford
Friday, June 5th – “The President Flies Over” by Patricia Smith
Thursday, June 4th – “You Are Who I Love” by Aracelis Girmay
Wednesday, June 3rd – “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden
Tuesday, June 2nd – “won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton
Monday, June 1st – “untitled” by Randi Simpkins
Sunday, May 31st – “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
Saturday, May 30th – “Ella’s Song” by Bernice Johnson Reagon
Friday, May 29th – “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks” by Jane Kenyon
Thursday, May 28th – “Black Matters” by Keith Wilson
Wednesday, May 27th – “no preponderance” by Hiwot Adilow
Monday, May 25th and Tuesday, May 26th – “Unusual Tightrope” by A.H. Jerriod Avant
Sunday, May 24th – “Petition” by Dilruba Ahmed
Saturday, May 23rd – “When I Am Asked” by Lisel Mueller
Friday, May 22nd – “Eating Poetry” by Mark Strand
Thursday, May 21st – “Peanut Butter” by Eileen Myles
Wednesday, May 20th – “I Have News For You” by Tony Hoagland
Tuesday, May 19th – “Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath
Monday, May 18th – “Last Body” by Mai Der Vang
Sunday, May 17th – “You Mean You Don’t Weep at the Nail Salon?” by Elizabeth Acevedo
Saturday, May 16th – “Self Portrait with Profanity” by Safia Elhillo
Friday, May 15th – “Thanks” by W.S. Merwin
Thursday, May 14th – “Requiem for a Nest” by Wanda Coleman
Wednesday, May 13th – “The Definition of Gardening” by James Tate
Tuesday, May 12th – Bottom speaking in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare
Monday, May 11th – “Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda
Sunday, May 10th – “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brown
Saturday, May 9th – “Shaking the Grass” by Janice N. Harrington
Friday, May 8th – “Bullet Points” by Jericho Brown
Thursday, May 7th – “Like You” by Roque Dalton
Wednesday, May 6th – “Continue” by Maya Angelou
Tuesday, May 5th – “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by William Wordsworth
Monday, May 4th – “When Giving Is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos
Sunday, May 3rd – “Poetic Subjects” by Rebecca Lindenberg
Saturday, May 2nd – “What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison” by Camille T. Dungy
Friday, May 1st – “This Be The Verse” by Philip Larkin
Thursday, April 30th – “Quarantine” by Eavan Boland
Wednesday, April 29th – “You Can Have It” by Philip Levine
Tuesday, April 28th – “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris
Monday, April 27th – “Furious Cooking” by Maureen Seaton
Sunday, April 26th – “Poet Dances with Inanimate Object” by Cornelius Eady
Saturday, April 25th – “Choices” by Tess Gallagher
Friday, April 24th – “Her Kind” by Anne Sexton
Thursday, April 23rd – “Hotel” by Guillaume Apollinaire
Wednesday, April 22nd – “The Voice of God” by Crystal Williams
Tuesday, April 21st – “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
Monday, April 20th – “Rite of Passage” by Sharon Olds
Sunday, April 19th – “Any and All” by Joseph Lawrence
Saturday, April 18th – “Some Rules” by Wendy Cope
Friday, April 17th – “High Treason” by José Emilio Pacheco
Thursday, April 16th – “Tomorrow, At Dawn” by Victor Hugo
Wednesday, April 15th – “Alone for a Week” by Jane Kenyon
Tuesday, April 14th – “Dawn Revisited” by Rita Dove
Monday, April 13th – “What the Living Do” by Marie Howe
Sunday, April 12th – “anna speaks of the childhood of mary her daughter” by Lucille Clifton
Saturday, April 11th – “The Place Where We Are Right” by Yehuda Amichai
Friday, April 10th – “If I Didn’t Live” by Gioconda Belli
Thursday, April 9th – “Grace” by Craig Arnold
Wednesday, April 8th – “I’m Learning Nothing This Night” by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Tuesday, April 7th – “Broom” by Deborah Digges
Monday, April 6th – “Strictly Speaking” by David Rivard
Sunday, April 5th – “Once by the Pacific” by Robert Frost
Saturday, April 4th – “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper” by Martín Espada
Friday, April 3rd – “Mercy (After Nikki Giovanni)” by Rudy Francisco
Thursday, April 2nd – “The Attic” by Cynthia Huntington
Wednesday, April 1st – “Lake Echo, Dear” by C. D. Wright
Tuesday, March 31st – “Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limón
Monday, March 30th – “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo
Sunday, March 29th – “An Old Story” by Tracy K. Smith
Saturday, March 28th – “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott
Friday, March 27th – “Danse Russe” by William Carlos Williams
Thursday, March 26th – “I Am Offering This Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Wednesday, March 25th – “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander
Tuesday, March 24th – “North American Time” by Adrienne Rich
Monday, March 23rd – “Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Sunday, March 22nd – “Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make” by Jane Mead
Saturday, March 21st – “This Room and Everything in It” by Li-Young Lee
Friday, March 20th – “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton