"The days are bright and free, bright and free."

June 20, 2023

Summer Solstice

Bask in the light of summer with these poems from Poets.org:

“Midsummer” by Léonie Adams
“Answer July” by Emily Dickinson
“The River Village” by Tu Fu
“Summer Magic” by Leslie Pinckney Hill
“Ode to Kool-Aid” by Marcus Jackson
“Summer Holiday” by Robinson Jeffers
“Re-Voyage” by Emily Pauline Johnson
“Magalu” by Helene Johnson
“In Summer Twilight” by Joshua Henry Jones Jr.
“Three Songs at the End of Summer” by Jane Kenyon
“June Sunset” by Sarojini Naidu
“August” by Dorothy Parker
“In the Mountains on a Summer Day” by Li Po
“Summer” by Maeng Sa-song
“Gitanjali 44” by Rabindranath Tagore

“I don’t know where my writing will end. I don’t know at the time that I’m writing a poem where it will end. Liminal space is described as a space that generates mystery, the unknown, the unexplored. I try to inhabit that space with words.”

Read our latest enjambments interview with Mitchell Untch on Memorial with Liminal Space, published this month through Driftwood Press. Read a selection of poems from the collection on Poets.org:

“Twin I”
“Oranges & Sardines”
“Psalm”

more at poets.org

“The teachers

say : take up the water,

make it your body
& mind, make it thought.”

—From Brian Teare’s poem, “Sitting River Meditation”

Teare, this month’s Poem-a-Day Guest Editor, is the author of six books, including Doomstead Days (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. Read and listen to a Q&A with Teare about his Poem-a-Day curatorial approach.

more at poets.org

#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

The Emily Dickinson Museum’s Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series, a monthly program featuring established and emerging poets in the contemporary poetry scene, presents Joseph Fritsch, Ocean Vuong, and Yanyi on Thursday, June 22, at 6 p.m. ET. Register for this free, virtual event here. (Sponsored)

more at poets.org

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Revisit last week’s Poem-a-Day selections with us on Poets.org:

June 11: “The Weather-Cock Points South” by Amy Lowell
June 12: “Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention” by Susan Landers
June 13: “Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush” by Hai-Dang Phan
June 14: “Malice” by S. Brook Corfman
June 15: “Pilgrimage” by Bhanu Kapil
June 16: “Poem” by Wendy Trevino
June 17: “The New Remorse” by Oscar Wilde

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"The days are bright and free, bright and free."

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"Sonnet for Ochún" by Leslie Sainz

"Malice" by S. Brook Corfman

"Pilgrimage" by Bhanu Kapil

"Poem" by Wendy Trevino

"The New Remorse" by Oscar Wilde

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