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

2006 Poem of the Day Archive

2005 Poem of the Day Archive

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

Monday, April 30
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Travel (1921)

Friday, April 27
John Milton
Sonnet VII (1645)

Thursday, April 26
Alicia Ostriker
Diaspora (1997)

Wednesday, April 25
W. H. Auden
That Night When Joy Began (1931)

Tuesday, April 24
Kenneth Koch
Permanently (1962)

Monday, April 23
William Shakespeare
Sonnet II (1609)

Friday, April 20
Nikki Giovanni
We Are Virginia Tech (2007)

Thursday, April 19
William Butler Yeats
A Prayer for My Son (1928)

Wednesday, April 18
Quincy Troupe
& Syllables Grow Wings There (1999)

Tuesday, April 17
Elizabeth Bishop
One Art (1976)

Monday, April 16
Sujata Bhatt
Eurydice Speaks (1988)

Friday, April 13
Lawrence Durrell
Education of a Cloud (1950)

Thursday, April 12
Kurt Vonnegut
Joe Heller (2005)

Wednesday, April 11
Czeslaw Milosz
A Song at the End of the World (1944)

Tuesday, April 10
Jane Duran
Three in the Morning (1995)

Monday, April 9
William Blake
A Little Girl Lost (1794)

Friday, April 6
Alvin Aubert
If Winter Come, Can Spring? (1994)

Tuesday, April 3
Sylvia Plath
Nick and the Candlestick (1962)

Monday, April 2
Emily Dickinson
A Book (1896)