At dinner, my mother tells me football has begun again.
Of all the news I don't want to hear, this tops the list.
Night Market by Nancy Cherry
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April's Choice
While I tried to limit myself to one poem per poet, you will see that I failed in a few cases, unable to choose one over another for various reasons. And you may notice that my choices were not always the most famous poem by an author, or the most popular, and not always even the best poem, but one that made such an impression on my mind or heart, that it comes back to me, in part or in whole decades later. Most of these poems are in print somewhere in a book or magazine or online. Still, a few are not yet available to the world at large, but could not possibly be excluded from this particular April list. 13 April 2009 - Nancy Cherry
April's Top 100 Favorite Poems
- The Second Coming – Y.B. Yeats
- A Blessing – James Wright
- Morning Poem – K Winters
- Blades – CK Williams
- Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
- Portrait of a Woman with Alphabet – Gillian Wegener
- Blue Monday – Diane Wakowski
- Vermeer – Tomas Transtromer
- in the new life i will allow – Gary Thompson
- Fern Hill – Dylan Thomas
- Water, Water – Cole Swenson
- Great Mountain – Gerald Stern
- The All-Night Waitress – Maura Stanton
- After the Storm – William Stafford
- Oranges – Gary Soto
- Brooms – Charles Simic
- “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” Sonnet xlii – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- History – Tomas Salamun
- A Little Stone in the Middle of the Road, In Florida – Muriel Rukeyser
- The Hummingbird: A Seduction – Pattiann Rogers
- The Waking – Theodore Roethke
- Dolor – Theodore Roethke
- Archeology – Katha Pollitt
- The Mirror – Sylvia Plath
- Tulips – Sylvia Plath
- Shirt – Robert Pinsky
- The Friend – Marge Piercy
- The Orange Bears – Kenneth Patchen
- Wild Geese – Mary Oliver
- Singapore – Mary Oliver
- First Love – Sharon Olds
- Alcatraz – Sharon Old
- To the foot from its child – Pablo Neruda
- Encounter – Czeslaw Milosz
- Driving – Josephine Miles
- The Unwritten – W.S. Merwin
- The A to Zs of Grief – Stephanie Mendel
- It Turns Out – William Matthews
- The End of the World – Archibald MacLeish
- Instruction from Bly – Cynthia MacDonald
- La Luna Asoma (When the Moon Sails Out) – Federico Garcia Lorca
- Animals Are Passing From Our Lives – Philip Levine
- The Ache of Marriage – Denise Levertov
- Trying to Raise the Dead – Dorianne Laux
- The Garden – Dorianne Laux
- Fast Gas – Dorianne Laux
- Corn - Melody Lacina
- The Sex Poem You Asked For – Melody Lacina
- Saying Things – Marily Krysl
- At the Office Early – Ted Koosier
- Under the Maud Moon – Galway Kinnell
- Wait – Galway Kinnell
- Things – Jane Kenyon
- Author’s Prayer – Ilya Kaminsky
- Psalm and Lament – Donald Justice
- Oceans – Juan Ramon Jimenez
- The Truth – Randall Jarrell
- Where You Go When She Sleeps – T.R. Hummer
- The Rat – Brenda Hillman
- Heat – Jane Hirshfield
- Things I didn’t know I loved – Hazim Hikmet
- Pebble – Zbgniew Herbert
- A name trimmed with colored ribbons from My Life – Lyn Hejinian
- Interrupted Meditation – Robert Hass
- Meditation at Lagunitas – Robert Hass
- The Garden – Louise Gluck
- April – Louise Gluck
- The General’s Wife – Elton Glaser
- Alone – Jack Gilbert
- We Manage Most When We Manage Small – Linda Gregg
- Gnostics on Trial – Linda Gregg
- Red Poppy – Tess Gallagher
- Each Bird Walking – Tess Gallagher
- The Colonel – Carolyn Forche
- The Death of Bob Hope – Gerald Fleming
- Neighbor – Molly Fisk
- Demeter in the Suburbs – Sharon Fain
- Natural History Exhibits – Claudia Emerson
- The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock – T.S. Eliot
- The Stairway – Stephen Dunn
- My Town – Stephen Dobyns
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes – Emily Dickinson
- The God Who Loves You – Carl Dennis
- Six Apologies, Lord – Olena Kalytiak Davis
- Wild Radish – Greg Darms
- Old Modesto – Greg Darms
- The Feeding Cycle of the Catfish – Tom Crawford
- Eastwing – Tom Crawford
- In The Workshop After I Read My Poem Aloud – Don Colburn
- you and the mountain – Lucille Clifton
- down the tram – Lucille Clifton
- Rain – William Carpenter
- The Winos on Portrero Hill – Richard Brautigan
- A Conversation with a Mouse – Robert Bly
- In the Waiting Room – Elizabeth Bishop
- One Art – Elizabeth Bishop
- A pity, we were such a good invention – Yehuda Amichai
- Chicken – Kim Addonizio
- Aquarium – Kim Addonizio
