January
- Winter Poem/ Donika Kelly
- Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther/ A.E. STALLINGS
- notes on winter holidays/ daniel biegelson
- I Refuse to Report Bugs to Their Creator/ BRAYAN SALINAS
- The Hill We Climb/ Amanda Gorman
- THINGS TO DO/ James Schuyler
- Story/ Tiana Clark
- The Snow/ James Schuyler
- Status Update/ Rebecca Lindenbery
February
- Perfect Song/ Heather Christle
- What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade/ Brad Aaron Modlin
- I am afraid to own a body/ Emily Dickinson
- Instructions for Opening a Door/ Adriana Cloud
- Skin Tight/ Ishmael Reed
March*
*all poems, unless specified, are by Emily Dickinson as part of my Dear March—Come in— exercise
- Dear March—Come in—
- If recollecting were forgetting
- I tie my Hat — I crease my Shawl —
- There’s a certain Slant of light (258)
- I measure every Grief I meet (561)
- I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)*
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
- Because I could not stop for Death – (479)
- A Bird, came down the Walk – (359)
- Crumbling is not an instant’s Act (1010)
- Fame is a bee. (1788)
- “Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314)
- Have you got a Brook in your little heart
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (340)
- I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
- My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun (764)
- We grow accustomed to the Dark —
- There is no Frigate like a Book (1286)
- Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
- Goldenrod/ Maggie Smith
- ‘Tis so much joy! ‘Tis so much joy!
- A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650)
- I dreaded that first Robin, so, (1862)
- To interrupt His Yellow Plan(1863)
- The morns are meeker than they were
- Meditations in an Emergency/ Cameron Awkward-Rich
- I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—*
- I saw no Way — The Heavens were stitched — (1863)
- Without this — there is nought — (1862)
April*
*all poems, unless specified, are by Mary Oliver as part of my exercise, April is for Mary (Oliver)
- Privacy/ Ada Limón
- Work from The Leaf and the Cloud
- Hum
- April
- What We Want
- I Worried and Don’t Hesitate
- Softest of Mornings from Long Life
- Two Kinds of Deliverance
- To a Snail/ Marianne Moore
- Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer
- Wind in the Pines and Bird in the Pepper Tree/ Swan
- HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO ENTER THE LONG BLACK BRANCHES
- 4 Sonnets from Swan and Evidence from Evidence
- Stars from West Wind
- Yellow, Then the Bluebird Sang, The Poet Always Carries a Notebookfrom Evidence
- Pastoral/ Forest Gander
- Deep Summer, I Want to Write Something So Simple
- Dogfish, Trilliums (from Dreams)
- Luke, The Summer Day
- Everything
- Bobolink/ Didi Jackson
- Sunrise
- The Leaf and the Cloud
- The Trees, Answers
- Such Singing in the Wild Branches from Owls and Other Fantasies
- Sometimes
- No Murder Of Crows/ J. Drew Lanham
- Beat! Beat! Drums!/ Walt Whitman – 1819-1892
- Enough/ Jeffrey Harrison
- Terns
- The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention That Comes First
- Work
- Don’t put up my Thread and Needle — / Emily Dickinson
May
- GROUP THINK: NEW NAMES FOR PLURAL BIRDS/ J. Drew Lanham
- A Heron/ Ted Kooser
- Syrinx/ Amy Clampitt – 1920-1993
- The Most Triumphant Bird/ Emily Dickinson
- Starlings/ Maggie Smith from Goldenrod
- From Nowhere/ Marie Howe
- Vanishing/ Brittney Corrigan
- Octoroon Warbler/ J. Drew Lanham
- For the Birds/ JOHN SHOPTAW
- Birdcall/ Alicia Ostriker
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird/ WALLACE STEVENS
- If I shouldn’t be alive/ Emily Dickinson
- Dawn Chorus/ SASHA DUGDALE
- The Birds begun at Four o’clock —/ Emily Dickinson
- Bewilderment/ Rumi
- Much Madness is divinest Sense – (620)/ EMILY DICKINSON
- The Language of the Birds/ Richard Siken
- Still/ Margaret Renkl
- Of Being is a Bird/ Emily Dickinson
- Going Down Hill on a Bicycle/ Henry Charles Beeching
- The Original Lyric Ballads Version of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
June
- Wind, Water, Stone/ OCTAVIO PAZ
- Evaporations/ Alice Oswald
- Lake Superior/ Lorine Niedecker
- The Museum of Stones/ Carolyn Forché
- These Poems/ June Jordan – 1936-2002
- Poet’s work/ LORINE NIEDECKER
- Paean to Place/ LORINE NIEDECKER
- The Song of Hiawatha/ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- from EXAQUA [Oh, that’s what I was]/ Jan-Henry Gray
- The Humpbacks/ Mary Oliver
- ROCK BOTTOM/ Eamon Grennan
- Buoy/ Savannah V. Evans
- The Blind Leading The Blind/ Lisel Mueller
- Not the Thing but a Fossil of the Thing/ Rebecca Foust
- A Short Story of Falling/ ALICE OSWALD
- Conversation with a Pebble/Alyson Hallett
- To chlorophyll, refineries, coal, furnaces beneath early skyscrapers, fossils/ Caroline Kenworthy
- A Swim in Co. Wicklow/ DEREK MAHON
- Erosion/ Linda Pastan
- excerpt from The Half Finished Heaven/ Tomas Tranströmer
- Under Pressure/ Tomas Tranströmer
- Erosion/ Eamon Grennan
- Rockpile/ Robert Morgan
- SWIMMER (FEMALE)*/ Concha Méndez
July
- The Unnamed River/ Arthur Sze
- Morning Swim/ Maxine Kumin
- The Nude Swim/ Anne Sexton
- Water in Love/ Ed Bok Lee
- Open Water/ Ada Limón
- a few delightful verses by Lorine Niedecker
- Smile/ Lorine Niedecker
- Fog-thick morning/ Lorine Niedecker
- Wife for Scale/ Maggie Smith
- Balance/ Alice B. Fogel
- The Thing Is/ Ellen Bass
- The Pond at Dusk/ JANE KENYON
- Exercise/ W.S. Merwin (may 1972)
- To Swim, To Believe/ Maxine Kumin
- BY THE SEA/ EMILY DICKINSON
- After the Dragonflies/ W.S. Merwin
- Wilderness/ Carl Sandburg
- Fish/ MARY ANN HOBERMAN
- 7 Shard/ CAConrad
- Sound Waves/ Amy Ludwig VanDerwate
- After the Rain/ Jared Carter
- WAVE AFTER WAVE/ M. Bartley Seigel
- Sea Poem/ Alice Oswald
August
- the lesson of the falling leaves/ lucille clifton
- Love (Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) / Bob Dorough
- Down with Love/ Blossom Dearie
- Good Bones/ Maggie Smith
- Heart / Maggie Smith
- Heart to Heart/ Rita Dove
- The More Loving One/ W. H. Auden
- Small Kindnesses/ Danusha Laméris
- I wanted to be surprised./ Jane Hirshfield
- Bioluminescence/ Paul Tran
- 5 Poems/ Amorak Huey
- The Swimmer/ Mary Oliver
- Green Koan/ Rita Dove
- Sky Coming Forward/ Carl Phillips
- Cello/ Dorianne Laux
- The Patience of Ordinary Things/ Pat Schneider
- Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child/ Dorothy Wordsworth
- The First Water Is the Body/ Natalie Diaz
- Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World/ Katie Farris
September
- Approximate Poem/ Paul Hall (1977)
- There Is No Word/ TONY HOAGLAND
- Late Summer/ JENNIFER GROTZ
- MAN WITH METAL DETECTOR / Robert B. Shaw
- The Fish/ Mary Oliver
- May Day Midnight/ Michael Palmer
- [I remember partially]/ Jane Huffman
- The Cucumber/ Nazim Hikmet
- Nothing Gold Can Stay/ Robert Frost
- Short Story/ Ellen Bryant Voigt
- When Night is almost done – / Emily Dickinson
- Travelling Together/ W.S. Merwin
- Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you./ GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
October
- October/ Robert Frost
- Neighbors in October/ DAVID BAKER
- Unbidden/ Rae Armantrout
- Haunt/ Maya Phillips
- Seven Types of Shadow – an extract / U A Fanthorpe
- Portrait of a Figure Near Water/ Jane Kenyon
- Island/ Rita Dove
- The Road Not Taken/ Robert Frost
- Page/ Jane Hirshfield
- The Bells/ Edgar Allen Poex
- A Ring/ W.S. Merwin
- A Rhyme for Halloween/ Maurice Kilwein Guevara
November
- Fall, leaves, fall/ EMILY BRONTË
- excerpt from November/ Lucy Larcom
- Prints/ Joseph Bruchac
- Perennials/ Maggie Smith
- from The Leaf and the Cloud/ Mary Oliver
- from Wintergreen Ridge/Lorine Niedecker
- In the Meantime/ Max Garland
- Passive Voice/ LAURA DA’
- How Dark the Beginning/ Maggie Smith
- In Passing/ MATTHEW SHENODA
- Observations on the Ground/ Mary Ruefle
- Gratitude to Old Teachers / Robert Bly
- The Orange / Wendy Cope
- from Obit/ Victoria Chang
- from Among the Trees/ Carl Phillips
December
- First Snow/ Arthur Sze
- Ghosting/ Andrea Cohen
- The Wild Geese/ Victoria Chang
- Big Clock/ Li-Young Lee – 1957-
- Something Told the Wild Geese / Rachel Field
- Prayer 48/ EVA SAULITIS
- Sometimes, When the Light/ Lisel Mueller
- Things/ Lisel Mueller
- Holiday Wish/ David Baker
- Obligations 2/ Layli Long Soldier
- Eye Exam/ Arthur Sze
- In the Grand Scheme of Things/ Maggie Smith