Hello Friends,
Well, it’s been quite the month! You’ve read a sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, limerick, terza rima, eulogy, couplets, tercets, quatrains, pocket poems, poems in translation, and plenty of free verse. You’ve read poems from the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s. You’ve read poems by Latina poets, Black poets, Asian poets, Native American poets, and queer poets. Not bad for thirty days!
The last word this month goes to Ken Mikolowski — I will leave you with a poem from his 1991 collection Big Enigmas.
Thank you again for joining me in a celebration of poetry this month.
Ellen
Nothing
can replace
poetry
in my life
and one day
surely
it will
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