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Poets and Poems: Wendell Berry and “Another Day”

In “Another Day: Sabbath Poems,” Wendell Berry continues his focus on community, land, landscape, people, and a sense of place.

“The Excellent Assembly” by Robert McDowell is a collection of 52 poems to remember the people who died in 9/11.

As summer comes to a close, Donna Hilbert reflects on the poems that she turns to for comfort in times of loss, for direction, and for joy.

In “The Wonderment: Poems,” Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer writes of the familiar and commonplace things that contain a sense of wonder.

September 3, 2026 By Glynn Young 1 Comment

I was the only one in the room who knew who he was.

In “Organ Language: Poems,” Jen Karetnick looks at the familiar and the everyday, probing beyond the obvious to find meaning.

Get your favorite steep or brew and join us in a poetry club tea date, to write a poem based on Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s “The Pershing Hotel.”

“The Norton Anthology of English Literature” — all 4,000 pages of it — shaped my understanding of poetry.

In “You, Too, Were Once on Fire,” poet Peter Murphy writes poems that say exactly what he means, poems that are candid, raw, and powerful.