Day 27 of April’s poetry selections

Posted By: David Fortier April 27, 2024

April is Poetry Month, so TBE is including links to poems for those who might be inclined to start their day with an adventure of sorts or who are simply curious. There will be links to classics as well as to some sources that are new. Some will hit home, others will miss.

For “Song” by Eamon Grennan, click here.

For “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson, click here.

For those with a few minutes, there is the Poetry Unbound website hosted by Pádraig Ó Tuama, an Irish poet. He provides commentary along with each poem.

Today’s selection from Poetry Unbound is “Reading Celan in a Subway Station” by Carolina Ebeid. After getting to the page, there is an audio link or scroll down and hit the “More” button for the transcript along with the printed poem. Click here.

And there are everyday people, who talk about a particular poem that means something special to them. Try Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project.” Click here for an example, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “The Holy Longing” with reading and comments by retired teacher Olivia Milward.

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