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
2005 Poem of the Day Archive

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

Wednesday, April 30
Emily Dickinson
"The Secret" (1890)

Tuesday, April 29
Wilfred Owen
"Anthem for Doomed Youth" (1917)

Monday, April 28
Christina Rossetti
"Spring" (1862)

Friday, April 25
Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Break, Break, Break" (1842)

Wednesday, April 23
William Shakespeare
"Sonnet III" (1609)

Tuesday, April 22
Mark Strand
"My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer" (1979)

Monday, April 21
Rena Mosteirin
"Winter Squash Blues" (2008)

Friday, April 18
Linda Pastan
"Passover" (1983)

Thursday, April 17
Wallace Stevens
"Of Mere Being" (1954)

Wednesday, April 16
Galway Kinnell
"Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight" (1971)

Tuesday, April 15
Jay Wright
"Mid-Spring, Coming into Buenos Aires" (2000)

Monday, April 14
Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper)
"When the Roses Were All White" (1881)

Friday, April 11
William Blake
"Milton" (1804)

Thursday, April 10
W. H. Auden
"The More Loving One" (1957)

Wednesday, April 9
Jane Duran
"The Mere Pleasure of Flying" (1995)

Tuesday, April 8
e. e. cummings
"[In Just-]" (1923)

Monday, April 7
Gerard Manley Hopkins
"God's Grandeur" (1918)

Friday, April 4
Patricia Spears Jones
"April" (1995)

Thursday, April 3
Walt Whitman
"Warble for Lilac-Time" (1872)

Wednesday, April 2
William Stafford
"Walking the Borders" (1998)

Tuesday, April 1
Diane Di Prima
"April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa" (1971)