Read 2River and Muddy Bank’s 2017 selections for National Poetry Month.
NPM 2017
NPM Day 30 | Ted Kooser | March 20: Vernal Equinox
“March 20: the vernal equinox” by Ted Kooser, from Winter Morning Walks: one hundred postcards to Jim Harrison (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2000)
NPM Day 29 | Marie Howe | Magdalene on Gethsemane
“Magdalene on Gethsemane” by Marie Howe, from Magdalene (Norton, 2017)
NPM Day 28 | Jianqing Zheng | River Moon
“River Moon” by Jianqing Zheng, from Down to the Dark River (Louisiana Literature Press, 2016)
NPM Day 27 |Mark Jackley | The Morning Sun
“The Morning Sun” by Mark Jackley, from THERE WILL BE SILENCE WHILE YOU WAIT (Plain View Press, 2009)
NPM Day 26 | Katy Lederer | The Intellect Can Only Talk About Wisdom
” The Intellect Can Only Talk About Wisdom” by Katy Lederer, from The Heaven Sent Leaf (BOA, 2008)
NPM Day 25 | Philip Schultz | The Stranger in Old Photos
“The Stranger in Old Photos” by Philip Schultz, from
The God of Loneliness: New and Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2010)
NPM Day 24 | Robert Bly | People Like Us
“People Like Us” by Robert Bly, from Stealing Sugar from the Castle (Norton 2013)
NPM Day 23 | Robert Fernandez | The Ground Beneath
“The Ground Beneath” by Robert Fernandez, from Scarecrow (Wesleyan, 2016)
NPM Day 22 | Gary Soto | Field Poem
Muddy Bank 