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The Academy of American Poets inaugurated National Poetry Month to celebrate the vital place of poetry in American culture. This year, they celebrate the 10th anniversary of this celebration, and we continue our own tradition by e-mailing a poem to subscribers every day in April. Our list has grown to over 18,000 members, but our mission remains to mail the best poetry by the best poets to you. Haven't subscribed yet? Sign up in the light blue bar at left, then browse poems we mailed in 2004 here. POEMS MAILED IN 2005 Friday April 1: "The Hunch", by Kevin Young from Black Maria Saturday April 2: "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory", by Lucie Brock-Broido from Trouble in Mind Sunday April 3: "My Place for Beth", by Franz Wright from Walking to Martha's Vineyard Monday April 4: "Origins of Desire: After Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan", by D. Nurkse from Burnt Island Tuesday April 5: "One reason I like opera", by Marge Piercy from Colors Passing Through Us Wednesday April 6: "Leda and the Swan", by W.B. Yeats with commentary from Camille Paglia's Break, Blow, Burn Thursday April 7: "Jazzonia", by Langston Hughes from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Friday April 8: "To My Greek", by James Merrill from Collected Poems Saturday April 9: "Black Cat", by Rainer Maria Rilke and "Fidelity of the Dog" by William Wordsworth from the Everyman's Library anthologies The Great Cat and Doggerel Sunday April 10: "On the Wing", by Mary Jo Salter from Hazmat Monday April 11: "Orchid", by J.D. McClatchy from Hazmat Tuesday April 12: "Life is Motion" and "Of Hartford in a Purple Light", by Wallace Stevens from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Wednesday April 13: "Untitled", by E. E. Cummings and "First Thanksgiving", by Sharon Olds from the Everyman's Library anthology Motherhood Thursday April 14: "To the Film Industry in Crisis", by Frank O'Hara from the Everyman's Library anthology Random House Voice of the Poet: Frank O'Hara Friday April 15: "Our Reds", by Philip Levine from Breath Saturday April 16: "What to Think of", by Mark Strand from Selected Poems Sunday April 17: "Moment, Stay", by Mary Kinzie from Drift Monday April 18: "A Brief for the Defense", by Jack Gilbert from Refusing Heaven Tuesday April 19: "Autobiography of Red", by Anne Carson from Autobiography of Red Wednesday April 20: "A Human Error", by Nancy Willard from In the Salt Marsh Thursday April 21: "The Secret Work", by Irving Feldman from Collected Poems 1954-2004 Friday April 22: "The Woman Knitting and the Spirits", by Abba Kovner from Sloan-Kettering Saturday April 23: "The Passion of the Colic", by Brooks Haxton from Uproar Sunday April 24: "Notes for a Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary", by Jane Mayhall from Sleeping Late on Judgment Day Monday April 25 "Prayer Meeting", by W. S. Di Piero from Brother Fire Tuesday April 26 "Closing the Kamasutra", by Meena Alexander from the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets collection, Indian Love Poems Wednesday April 27 "Dreams of Water", by Donald Justice from his Collected Poems Thursday April 28 "The Tyger", by William Blake with commentary by Kenneth Koch and poems by children from Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children Friday April 29 " The Waterfall" and "Portola Valley", by Amy Clampitt, " Strawberrying" by May Swenson, "Little Clown, My Heart" and "You Like to Give and Watch Me My Pleasure" by Sandra Cisneros from The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt, In Other Words, and Loose Woman 
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