"In the lonely lane there is no passer by"

“The Heart of a Woman” by Georgia Douglas Johnson (September 10, 1880)
“We Two” by H.D. (September 10, 1886)
“Beans” by Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935)
“Heritage” by Claude McKay (September 15, 1889)
“Summer Song” by William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883)
“Song” by T. S. Eliot (September 26, 1888)
“Variation on a Theme” by W. S. Merwin (September 30, 1927) 

“As someone who was interested in the lives of poems, in addition to how the poem is written, I wanted to look for poets [who] were part of collectives, such as members of Unbound Feet. And then also poets who worked as translators and organizers on behalf of movements.” 

Please join us in welcoming this month’s Poem-a-Day Guest Editor, Eunsong Kim. Kim is the author of gospel of regicide (Noemi Press, 2017). The recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Arts Writers Program, and Yale University’s Poynter Fellowship, she is an associate professor in the department of English at Northeastern University. Read and listen to a Q&A with Kim about her Poem-a-Day curatorial approach, and read poems by her on Poets.org: 

“On Endings & Longing” 
“Romance #1” 
“Psalm”