national poetry month index (2025)
April is National Poetry Month.
There is a poem here for each day.
4/1: Oliver Evans; Old Men Watching Baseball
4/2: Edna St. Vincent Millay; Figs From Thistles: First Fig
4/3: Tu Fu; Loneliness
4/4: John Masefield; Sea-Fever
4/5: Dorothy Parker; Epitaph
4/6: Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Break, Break, Break
4/7: Langston Hughes; Young Prostitute
4/8: William Cullen Bryant; Upon The Mountain's Distant Head
4/9: Langston Hughes; Death of an Old Sea Man
4/10: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
4/11: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Concord Hymn
4/12: Percy Bysshe Shelley; Ozymandias
4/13: Shara McCallum; Self-Portait
4/14: Franklin Pierce Adams; Baseball's Sad Lexicon
4/15: DH Lawrence; Self-Pity
4/16: Stevie Smith; Not Waving But Drowning
4/17: Claude McKay; If We Must Die
4/18: Ilya Kaminsky; We Lived Happily During The War
4/19: Maggie Smith; Poem Beginning with a Retweet
4/20: Kozan Ichikyo; Death Poem
4/21: Owen McLeod; Black Box
4/22: William Butler Yeats; On being asked for a War Poem
4/23: Wendell Berry; I Go Among Trees
4/24: Edna St. Vincent Millay; Conscientious Objector
4/25: Robert Frost; In the Winter Woods Alone
4/26: Tracy K Smith; The Good Life
4/27: Cornelius Eady; Easter Shoes
4/28: Playing Possum
4/29: We Both Stopped To Smell The Roses
4/30: Shuffleboard
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