Poetry

This April, for National Poetry Month, I used my computer to record a poem each day and sent the mp3, along with the text, to friends and family who said they’d be interested in receiving them.  This page is an archive of these mp3s. Clicking on each title will take you to the text of the poem. At the bottom of each page is a little mp3 player you can click on to hear me reading the poem.

Poem 1: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out? by Ron Koertge
Poem 2: superbly situated by Robert Hershon
Poem 3: Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop
Poem 4: Language Lesson 1976 by Heather McHugh
Poem 5: Your Catfish Friend by Richard Brautigan
Poem 6: Another Argument About the Impossible by Lawrence Raab
Poem 7: How Origami Was Invented by Bob Hicok
Poem 8: Common Magic by Bronwen Wallace
Poem 9: My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task by Jon Pineda
Poem 10: Darwin’s Finches by Deborah Digges
Poem 11: Grief by Matthew Dickman
Poem 12: Hidden by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poem 13: Ave Maria by Frank O’Hara
Poem 14: God Says Yes to Me by Kaylin Haught
Poem 15: The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm by Wallace Stevens
Poem 16: Night Walk by Franz Wright
Poem 17: Miro’s House for Lovers by Theo Dorgan
Poem 18: Three of Cups by Marty McConnell
Poem 19: Slowly by Donna Masini
Poem 20: The Writer by Richard Wilbur
Poem 21: Questions About Angels by Billy Collins
Poem 22: What the Dead Fear by Kim Addonizio
Poem 23: As It Is by Dorianne Laux
Poem 24: AB Negative (The Surgeon’s Poem) by Brian Turner
Poem 25: Sweetness by Stephen Dunn
Poem 26: Alicante Lullaby by Sylvia Plath
Poem 27: How to Like It by Stephen Dobyns
Poem 28: The Questions Poems Ask by Lawrence Raab