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Dear Every Day Poems Readers,

Thank you for sharing your favorite lines with us for the poetry club!

This is a way, if you aren’t with us on Instagram or Twitter, to see what has touched each other’s hearts, minds, and souls, month by month.

Enjoy. ✨

P.S.: You can also join the poetry club tea date, for a little writing inspiration!

July 2022

imagine what a home can mean nathalie handal

Nathalie Handal’s “The Thing About Feathers”


 

April 2022

a complete and fragile world "found poem" from sara barkat's the shivering ground

“I’m Sorry”, a found poem from Sara Barkat’s story “The Eternal In-Between”
in The Shivering Ground


 

March 2022

a thousand acres of light maurya simon poem

Maurya Simon’s “A Thousand Acres of Light”


 

December 2021

we step out of mourning's song

Shanna Powlus Wheeler’s “Selah”


 

November 2021

poetry quotes about rain Megan Willome's "Where I'm From" Texas poem

Megan Willome’s Where I’m From


 

October 2021

air waits for the echo of us-"your absence" poem from mildred's garden

Laura Boggess’s “your absence”, from Mildred’s Garden

 

August 2021

Swimming in the Rain poem quote Chana Block

Chana Block’s “Swimming in the Rain”

 

June 2021

forget your regrets poem icy terrain

Jessica Goodfellow’s “Unreachable”

 

April 2021

longing for a ghazal

L.L. Barkat’s Longing for a Ghazal

 

March 2021

dreaming the heart sound that takes wing poem

Becky D. Sakellariou’s “Dreaming a Butterfly”

 

February 2021

wood thrush poem

Laurie Klein’s “Though the Light Fades”

 

December 2020

snow bride Indian girl beautiful

Dave Malone’s Kissed

 

November 2020

dream what it means kathleen cain

Kathleen Cain’s “What This Means, Being Cottonwood”

 

desperate for you poem lines maggie smith

Maggie Smith’s “First Fall”

 

October 2020

how to harbor what's left of joy maureen doallas poem

Maureen Doallas’s “Recounting Seasons”

 

chidlren of chance sara teasdale

Sara Teasdale’s “Chance”

 

wondering how a body hides within ontology by ll barkat

L.L. Barkat’s “Ontology”

 

Alison Luterman’s “Braiding His Hair”

 

how to best sew the dream

Ken Waldman’s “Irish Tea”

 

September 2020

pearl like this

Madison Julius Cawein’s “Baby”

 

on the necessity of snow angels

Grace Butcher’s “On the Necessity of Snow Angels
for the Well-Being of the World”

 

before breath condenses this eggshell structure

Kristin George Bagdanov’s “Proof of Thought”

 

Adrienne Rich’s “The Clock in the Square”

 

August 2020

words lost

Paul Willis’s The Way in Which

 

door that opens

Richard Maxson’s “Do Not Despair”

 

minted dust of stars poem

Effie Lee Newsome’s “Peacock Feather”

 

fragile cup of silence poem

Shu Ting (trans. Carolyn Kizer)’s “Bits of Reminiscence”

 

words turn to body poem

L.L. Barkat’s “You Had Not Known”

 

let yourself be broken quote from carolyn locke's "what else"

Carolyn Locke’s “What Else”

 

July 2020

what we would give up marie howe poem

Marie Howe’s “What We Would Give Up”

 

typewriter poem

Rebecca Seiferle’s “What We Need Words For”

 

be calm poem

Joseph Stroud’s “Hacedor”

 

June 2020

wife poem by tom hennen

Tom Hennen’s “Wife”

Says reader Bethany Rohde, about “Wife”: “Tom Hennen also wrote one of my favorite poems of all time. It’s called, “Soaking Up Sun,” and is part of the collection Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness & Connection, edited by James Crews. Oh, it’s such a touching poem and reminds me of a dear family member.”

 

startled into finding my own wealth rabindranath tagore

Rabindranath Tagore’s “On the Shady Side”

 

as if born the moment poem

Anne M. Doe Overstreet’s “This Has Been a Summer of Moths”

my heart a marvel

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s “The Long Run”

Says reader Dave Malone, about “The Long Run,” “I love how the poem is larger than itself, particularly at the end. And the idea of animals and mystery. Nicely conceived.”

 

poetry has settled my unquiet mind

Monica Sharman’s “What Poetry Can Do”

 

broken bridge poetry club

Alice Oswald’s “Hymn to Iris”

 

oriole poetry club

Jim Harrison’s “Oriole”

 

hope born poetry club

Barbara Crooker’s Sometimes I Am Startled Out of Myself

 

white swans poetry club

Anne M. Doe Overstreet’s “Sour Plums”

 

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