Read 2River and Muddy Bank’s 2017 selections for National Poetry Month.

“March 20: the  vernal equinox” by Ted Kooser, from Winter Morning Walks: one hundred postcards to Jim Harrison (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2000)

 

“Magdalene on Gethsemane” by Marie Howe, from Magdalene (Norton, 2017)

 

“River Moon” by Jianqing Zheng, from Down to the Dark River (Louisiana Literature Press, 2016)

“The Morning Sun” by Mark Jackley, from THERE WILL BE SILENCE WHILE YOU WAIT (Plain View Press, 2009)

” The Intellect Can Only Talk About Wisdom” by Katy Lederer, from The Heaven Sent Leaf (BOA, 2008)

“The Stranger in Old Photos” by Philip Schultz, from
The God of Loneliness: New and Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2010)

“People Like Us” by Robert Bly, from Stealing Sugar from the Castle (Norton 2013)

“The Ground Beneath” by Robert Fernandez, from Scarecrow (Wesleyan, 2016)

“Field Poem” by Gary Soto, from Selected Poems (Chronicle Books, 1995)