2016 Poetry Month List

A couple of years ago I began sharing poems on my Facebook account each day to celebrate national poetry month. In case you aren't Facebook friends with me or would just like to have a list of lovely poems to check out, I've decided to share them here.

Happy National Poetry Month!

2016 National Poetry Month Poetry

I think these ended up being recorded in reverse order (as in #30 was shared on April 1st, 2016)

1. History Lesson by Natasha Trethewey
2. Bess by William Stafford
3. For my Daughter on her 21^st Birthday by Ellen Bass
4. Meeting after Many Years by Ted Kooser
5. Ear Bud by Bill Holm
6. Faultlines by Kathryn Kysar
7. Dogwoods by Linda Pastan
8. The Cardinal by Henry Carlile
9. From Woody’s Restaurant, Middlebury by Greg Delanty
10. Snowflake by William Baer
11. Great things have Happened by Aldan Nowlan
12. Forgetfulness by Billy Collins (youtube video)
13. Ode to my 1977 Toyota by Barbara Hamby
14. Barking by Jim Harrison
15. Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye
16. Skinny Dipping After Work at the Drive-in by Debra Nystrom
17. Pot Roast by Mark Strand
18. Nina’s Blues by Cornelius Eady
19. Windchime by Tony Hoagland
20. Telescope by Ted Kooser
21. Ode to my Socks by Pablo Neruda
22. Fireflies by Rolf Jacobsen
23. On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
24. Farming in a Lilac Shirt by Leo Dangel
25. #824 by Emily Dickinson
26. This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
27. Wild Geese by Mary Oliver (youtube video)
28. Weather by Linda Pastan
29. The Vacation by Wendell Berry
30. Tattoo by Ted Kooser

I'll share the 2017 poems in next week's post...and the 2018 poems at the end of the month.