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
2005 Poem of the Day Archive

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

Friday, April 28
W. H. Auden
First Things First (1957)

Thursday, April 27
Jay Wright
Dandelion (1988)

Wednesday, April 26
Emily Dickinson
Hope (1892)

Tuesday, April 25
Linda Hogan
What Gets In (1988)

Monday, April 24
William Shakespeare
It was a lover and his lass (1599)

Friday, April 21
Matthew Arnold
Shakespeare (1885)

Thursday, April 20
Richard Hugo
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir (1983)

Wednesday, April 19
Louise Gluck
Flowering Plum (1995)

Tuesday, April 18
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Brain to the Heart (1986)

Monday, April 17
Jorie Graham
Existence and Presence (1993)

Friday, April 14
John Donne
Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (1633)

Thursday, April 13
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Sonnet-Ballad (1949)

Wednesday, April 12
e. e. cummings
[spring omnipotent goddess thou dost] (1922)

Tuesday, April 11
William Carlos Williams
Ode to Laziness Pablo Neruda (1958)

Monday, April 10
John Keats
Sonnet on the Sonnet (1820)

Friday, April 7
Jane Kenyon
Wash (1986)

Thursday, April 6
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child (1918)

Wednesday, April 5
Sonia Sanchez
Kaleidoscope (1984)

Tuesday, April 4
Jonathan Swift
A Description of a City Shower (1710)

Monday, April 3
Maxine Kumin
Late Snow (1997)