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!
April 2021
L.L. Barkat’s Longing for a Ghazal
March 2021
Becky D. Sakellariou’s “Dreaming a Butterfly”
February 2021
Laurie Klein’s “Though the Light Fades”
December 2020
Dave Malone’s Kissed
November 2020
Kathleen Cain’s “What This Means, Being Cottonwood”
Maggie Smith’s “First Fall”
October 2020
Maureen Doallas’s “Recounting Seasons”
Sara Teasdale’s “Chance”
L.L. Barkat’s “Ontology”
Alison Luterman’s “Braiding His Hair”
Ken Waldman’s “Irish Tea”
September 2020
Madison Julius Cawein’s “Baby”
Grace Butcher’s “On the Necessity of Snow Angels
for the Well-Being of the World”
Kristin George Bagdanov’s “Proof of Thought”
Adrienne Rich’s “The Clock in the Square”
August 2020
Paul Willis’s The Way in Which
Richard Maxson’s “Do Not Despair”
Effie Lee Newsome’s “Peacock Feather”
Shu Ting (trans. Carolyn Kizer)’s “Bits of Reminiscence”
L.L. Barkat’s “You Had Not Known”
Carolyn Locke’s “What Else”
July 2020
Marie Howe’s “What We Would Give Up”
Rebecca Seiferle’s “What We Need Words For”
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”