In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Library is posting a Poem of the Day every weekday in April.

2007 Poem of the day Archive

2006 Poem of the Day Archive  

For more information about poetry resources in the Library, email Laura Braunstein.

Friday, April 29
John Milton
Song on May Morning (1645)

Thursday, April 28
Anonymous
Western Wind (14th-15th century)

Wednesday, April 27
Sujata Bhatt
Menu (1988)

Tuesday, April 26
Walt Whitman
Beginning My Studies (1872)

Monday, April 25
Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica (1926)

Friday, April 22
Dylan Thomas
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower (1937)

Thursday, April 21
Cathy Song
Spaces We Leave Empty (1983)

Wednesday, April 20
Gary Snyder
As for Poets (1974)

Tuesday, April 19
Rita Dove
Fifth Grade Autobiography (1989)

Monday, April 18
Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket in California (1955)

Friday, April 15
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Don Juan (1819)

Thursday, April 14
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 98 (1609)

Wednesday, April 13
Joy Harjo
Perhaps the World Ends Here (1996)

Tuesday, April 12
William Wordsworth
Scorn Not the Sonnet (1849)

Monday, April 11
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Spring (1956)

Friday, April 8
James Arlington Wright
A Blessing (1971)

Thursday, April 7
Jean Follain
Speech Alone
Translated by W. S. Merwin

Wednesday, April 6
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
A Request to Time (1653)

Tuesday, April 5
Langston Hughes
Earth Song (1955)

Monday, April 4
Robert Frost
To the Thawing Wind (1915)

Friday, April 1
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land (1925)