LMU Department of English
A Poem a Day for April 2011
We will be featuring a different poem every day during the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month. Check back here every day during the month of April to read the featured poem of the day.
The Poems
- April 1—Awning by Thomas Alan Holmes
- April 2— January Night Testament by Ron Houchin
- April 3 — Buckets by Jim Minick
- April 4 — The Word Foller and Others Like It and Two Crows in the Autumn Field by Maurice Manning
- April 5 — Poetic Drift by Sylvia Woods
- April 6 — Elegy for a Hay Rake by Jesse Graves
- April 7 — Life Story by Connie Jordan Green
- April 8 — Tonic by Jane Hicks
- April 9 — Snapping Beans by Lisa Parker
- April 10 — Salvation by Amy Elliott
- April 11 — Voice Hunting by Larry Thacker
- April 12 — Sweet Dreams by George Ella Lyon
- April 13 — Sunday at the Carolina by Katy Giebenhain
- April 14 — Instructions for Afterward by Michael Chitwood
- April 15 — Bones by Dana Wildsmith
- April 16 — End of October by Isabel Zuber
- April 17 — Sorrow of Light by Jane Sasser
- April 18 — Prayer of the Mad Farmer's Wife by Rita Quillen
- April 19 — Big Tease by Kathryn Stripling Byer
- April 20 — Petroglyph by Frank X Walker
- April 21 — APPALACHIAN EPITHALAMIUM by Erin Keane
- April 22 — Lightning Bug by Robert Morgan
- April 23 — haiku by Anne Shelby
- April 24 — Redbud by Marianne Worthington
- April 25 — Spoons by Darnell Arnoult
- April 26 — Lying Here by Pat Hope
- April 27 — Cornbread by Silas House
- April 28 — Jarflies by Linda Parsons Marion
- April 29 — Dogwood Winter by Rosemary Royston
- April 30 — First Memory by Ron Rash
Click here to read the poems featured during National Poetry Month in 2010
