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Project MUSE - Often, We Love Best

April 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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Today's #NationalPoetryMonth2025 offering...Often We Love Best by Danusha Laméris #NPM2025

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April 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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Poem for today...A Certain Kind of Eden by Kay Ryan #NationalPoetryMonth2025 #NPM2025

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A Certain Kind of Eden | Poetry Out Loud

It seems like you could, butyou can’t go back and pullthe roots and runners and replant.It’s all too deep for that.You’ve overprized intention,have mistaken any bent you’re givenfor control. You thoug...

"Snowdrops" by Paula Meehan: Poem of the Week

April 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Today's poem...Snowdrops by Paula Meehan wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the-...

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In "Snowdrops," from Paula Meehan's Painting Rain (2009), the poet uses the language of spring to reframe death as generative rather than destructive.

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April 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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Poem of the day...Passive Voice by Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee)
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Passive Voice

I use a trick to teach students how to avoid passive voice. I wonder if these sixth graders will recollect, on summer vacation, as they stretch their legs on the way home from Yellowstone or Yosemite ...

Making You Noise — Francesca Bell | Poet

April 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Poem for today...Making You Noise by Francesca Bell #NPM2025 #NationalPetryMonth2025

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— for my mother The day before you go deaf completely, I will make you noise. I will bring birds, bracelets, chimes to hang in wind.

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April 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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Today's versical pick...Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski (tr. Clare Cavanagh)
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Try to Praise the Mutilated World

Try to praise the mutilated world. Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and returns.

At Last the New Arriving | Poetry Out Loud

April 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM

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Today's poem...At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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Like the horn you played in Catholic schoolthe city will open its mouth and cryout. Don't worry 'bout nothing. Don't meanno thing. It will leave you stunnedas a fighter with his eyes swelled shutwho's...

The world will keep trudging through time without us

April 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM

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Today's poetry selection...Without by Joy Harjo (Muskogee/Creek)
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Without

The Hidden Singer - The Hidden Singer Poem by Wendell Berry

April 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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Today's poem...The Hidden Singer by Wendell Berry
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Read The Hidden Singer poem by Wendell Berry written. The Hidden Singer poem is from Wendell Berry poems. The Hidden Singer poem summary, analysis and comments.

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April 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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#NPM pick of the day...I Will Wade Out by e. e. cummings
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I Will Wade Out by E. E. Cummings

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April 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Today's #NationalPoetryMonth2025 selection...The Railway Children by Seamus Heaney #NPM2025

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The Railway Children

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April 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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Today's poem...Red Brocade by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Red Brocade

The Arabs used to say,

A Small Moment | Poetry Out Loud

April 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Today's #NPM2025 offering...Allowables by Nikki Giovanni
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April 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM

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Poem of the day...
A Small Moment by Cornelius Eady #NPM2025
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I walk into the bakery next door To my apartment. They are about To pull some sort of toast with cheese From the oven. When I ask: What’s that smell? I am being A poet, I am asking What ...

I have seen a tree split in two

April 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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Today's #NationalPoetryMonth2025 selection...Forest for the Trees by Rena Priest

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The Forest for the Trees

On Those Days | DONNA ASHWORTH

April 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM

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Poem of the day...On Those Days by Donna Ashworth

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April 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Poem for the day...Yes, That’s When by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer #NPM2025

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Yes, That’s When

I like my body when I’m in the woods and I forget my body. I forget that arms, that legs, that nose. I forget that waist, that nerve, that skin. And I aspen. I mountain. I river. I stone. I leaf. I…

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April 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Today's #NPM2025 offering...At the Equinox – Arthur Sze

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At the Equinox

I have no theory of radiance, but after rain evaporates off pine needles, the needles glisten.

How to Break a Curse | Poetry Out Loud

April 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Poem for the day...How to Break a Curse – Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

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Lemon balm is for forgiveness.Pull up from the root, steepin boiling water. Add locusts’ wings,salt, the dried bones of hummingbirds.Drink when you feel ready.Drink even if you do not.Pepper seeds are...

Say tomorrow doesn't come.

April 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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Today's poem...The Conditional – Ada Limón poets.org/poem/conditi...

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The Conditional

Of the Empire/ Mary Oliver

April 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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Poem of the day...Of the Empire by Mary Oliver #NPM2025

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Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a cult…

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April 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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Poem for the day...Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
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Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive.