Category Archives: NPM 2016

2River’s Daily Picks for National Poetry Month 2016

“The Little Hole” by George Oppen, from New Collected Poems (New Direction, 1972)

“Pastoral” by Natasha Tretheway, from Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

“Lamentation” by Jason Schneiderman, from Primary Source (Red Hen Press, 2016)

“Telephone Pole” by Mark Jackley, from There Will Be Silence While You Wait (Plain View Press, 2009)

“The Two Rivers” by Robert Bly, from Loving a Woman in Two Worlds (Harper & Row, 1987)

by C. D. Wright, from Shallcross (Copper Canyon, 2016)

“Weather” by Linda Patsan, from The Last Uncle (Norton, 2002)

“Lay Back the Darkness” by Edward Hirsch, from Lay Back the Darkness (Knopf 2003)

“April and Silence” by Tomas Tranströmer, from The Half-Finished Heaven (Graywolf, 2001)