Dear Every Day Poems Readers,
Thank you for sharing your favorite lines with us for the new poetry club!
Here’s 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. ✨
July 2020
Joseph Stroud’s “Hacedor”
June 2020
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.”
Rabindranath Tagore’s “On the Shady Side”
Anne M. Doe Overstreet’s This Has Been a Summer of Moths
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.”
Monica Sharman’s “What Poetry Can Do”
Alice Oswald’s “Hymn to Iris”
Jim Harrison’s “Oriole”
Barbara Crooker’s Sometimes I Am Startled Out of Myself
Anne M. Doe Overstreet’s “Sour Plums”