Master List of April Is Poems
Alphabetical by author, 2005-present
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Onset, Kim Addonizio
from Narrative: Ali, Elizabeth Alexander
At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994, Sherman Alexie
Manet’s Olympia, Margaret Atwood
B
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, Amiri Baraka
I Don’t Fear Death, Sandra Beasley
When I Think, Jeanne Marie Beaumont
bon bon il est un pays, Samuel Beckett
American Names, Stephen Vincent Benet
New York, New York, David Berman
from The Wild Geese, Wendell Berry
from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, John Berryman
Crusoe in England, Elizabeth Bishop
Open Letter to the Muse, Kristy Bowen
Why They Went, Elizabeth Bradfield
Prayer of the Backhanded, Jericho Brown
Track 5: Summertime, Jericho Brown
Please Take Back the Sparrows, Suzanne Buffam
The Crunch, Charles Bukowski
the laughing heart, Charles Bukowski
the mockingbird, Charles Bukowski
from Briggflatts, Basil Bunting
Let’s Move All Things (September), Denver Butson
C
Graves We Filled Before the Fire, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List, Andrea Carlisle
The Last Poem In The World, Hayden Carruth
On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam, Hayden Carruth
Jackie Robinson, Lucille Clifton
All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann, Leonard Cohen
Waste Land Limericks, Wendy Cope
i thank You God for most this amazing, e.e. cummings
since feeling is first, e.e. cummings
D
Like Kerosene, Olena Kalytiak Davis
Johnny Cash in the Afterlife, Bronwen Densmore
We Did Not Make Ourselves, Michael Dickman
Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy
I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone, Stephen Dunn
E
from Five-Finger Exercises, T.S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot
from The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
Aberration (The Hubble Space Telescope before repair), Rebecca Elson
When Leather is a Whip, by Martin Espada
F
Baseball Canto, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
G
There Are Many Theories About What Happened, John Gallagher
you can’t be a star in the sky without holy fire, Frank X. Gaspar
Nothing but winter in my cup, Alice George
The Bear-Boy of Lithuania, Amy Gerstler
An Offer Received In This Morning’s Mail, Amy Gerstler
A Brief for the Defense, Jack Gilbert
Getting Away with It, Jack Gilbert
I Imagine The Gods, Jack Gilbert
Not Getting Closer, Jack Gilbert
The Last Poem About the Snow Queen, Sandra M. Gilbert
A Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg
How Simile Works, Albert Goldbarth
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye, Albert Goldbarth
Asking for Directions, Linda Gregg
H
The Impossible Marriage, Donald Hall
Sleep Positions, Lola Haskins
Meditation at Lagunitas, Robert Hass
The Dover Bitch, Anthony Hecht
The Old Liberators, Robert Hedin
Elegy of Fortinbras, Zbigniew Herbert
Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem, Bob Hicok
Root root root for the home team, Bob Hicok
In Praise of My Bed, Meredith Holmes
Death, The Last Visit, Marie Howe
Part of Eve’s Discussion, Marie Howe
What the Living Do, Marie Howe
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K
Bike Ride with Older Boys, Laura Kasischke
Black Swan, Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The Leaving, Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Having It Out With Melancholy, Jane Kenyon
In the Nursing Home, Jane Kenyon
from Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight, Galway Kinnell
King Lear Considers What He’s Wrought, Melissa Kirsch
For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu, A.M. Klein
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Koch
Across a Great Wilderness without You, Keetje Kuipers
L
To the Couple Lingering on the Doorstep, Deborah Landau
A Short History of the Apple, Dorianne Laux
Death Comes To Me Again, A Girl, Dorianne Laux
Trying to Raise the Dead, Dorianne Laux
America [Try saying wren], Joseph Lease
About Marriage, Denise Levertov
In The City of Light, Larry Levis
There Are Two Worlds, Larry Levis
How to Build an Owl, Kathleen Lynch
M
Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell, Marty McConnell
The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy, Jeffrey McDaniel
The Quiet World, Jeffrey McDaniel
Crossing Over, William Meredith
Poem About Morning, William Meredith
For the Anniversary of My Death, W.S. Merwin
N
Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry, Howard Nemerov
The Problem With Skin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal, Naomi Shihab Nye
O
For Grace, After A Party, Frank O’Hara
Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think, Frank O’Hara
A Step Away From Them, Frank O’Hara
Now comes the long blue cold, Mary Oliver
P
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car, Dan Pagis
23rd Street Runs Into Heaven, Kenneth Patchen
Poppies in October, Sylvia Plath
[this is what you love: more people. you remember], D.A. Powell
Q
HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITY NO. 26, J.R. Quackenbush
R
A Martian Sends A Postcard Home, Craig Raine
from An Atlas of the Difficult World, Adrienne Rich
The World Wakes Up, Andrew Michael Roberts
Wish For a Young Wife, Theodore Roethke
All Objects Reveal Something About the Body, Catie Rosemurgy
Sweet Star Chisel, Dearest Flaming Crumbs in Your Beard Lord, John Rybicki
S
The Moss of His Skin, Anne Sexton
Tantalus in May, Reginald Shepherd
Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life], Bruce Smith
Consolation for Tamar, A.E. Stallings
The Day Flies Off Without Me, John Stammers
The Continuous Life, Mark Strand
Living in the Body, Joyce Sutphen
On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes, Mary Szybist
T
It Happens Like This, James Tate
Theories of Time and Space, Natasha Trethewey
U
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W
Love After Love, Derek Walcott
I Said to Poetry, Alice Walker
What To Say To A Bear, Ionna Warwick
Making Love to Myself, James L. White
from Pioneers! O Pioneers!, Walt Whitman
In Me as the Swans, Leslie Williams
Old Women in Eliot Poems, David Wright
Publication Date, Franz Wright
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