For odd creatures & moons, from Poetry, July/August 2014.
from Werewolf on the Moon / by Amanda Calderon
From it & all its names, names
for everything: for islands, for fables,
the provinces it traces
DPF / Sweeney
A pretty one for sisters, from the 2009 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poetry, How to Live on Bread and Music.
from The Three Sisters / by Jennifer K. Sweeney b. 1973
How many times have I peered
into the sloop and slag of childhood
as if shaking up a snow globe
DPF / Mlinko
For language, from Poetry, February 2011. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ange-mlinko#poet
from Symphonic Expanse / by Ange Mlinko b. 1969
The viscid catchfly,
ah, vying with bats at evening in Zahle
DPF / Martinez
For Sunday, from heredities, the 2010 Walt Whitman winner.
from The Quietest Heaven / by J. Michael Martinez
a blanched nightgown
whispering against tile
DPF / Kenney
No Kenney yet? Here go! This one’s from Poetry again, December 2012. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244936
from March / by Richard Kenney b. 1948
Blues! Blooms! The yodel
of the chimney in night wind.
DPF / Karr
For New York, from Poetry magazine, December 2012.
from A Perfect Mess / by Mary Karr b. 1955
The city feeds on beauty, starves
for it, breeds it.
DPF / Beeder
Another no-rain poem in lieu of a rain dance, from Poetry Magazine, January 2012.
from Dear Drought / by Amy Beeder
Offer your usual posy of goatheads. Proffer
sharp garlands of thistle & Incas’ thin down
DPF / Brittain
One on one of the perils of war, from the Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248388
from August, 1914 / by Very Mary Brittain
God said, “Men have forgotten Me:
The souls that sleep shall wake again,
DPF / Wayman
One of my favorites for teachers, from Poetry 180. When a student asks if s/he missed anything when s/he was absent, you might consider referring the student (4th-12th grade+) to this poem. Full poem here:
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/013.html
from Did I Miss Anything? / by Tom Wayman b. 1945
Nothing. When you are not present
how could something significant occur?
DPF / Thomas
For home, from the Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248188
from Home [“Often I had gone this way before”] / by Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
But now it seemed I never could be
And never had been anywhere else;
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