April was Poetry Month! And we had a fantastic turnout at the Willow Glen Public Library. True to the tradition of the Willow Glen Poetry Project’s celebration of Poetry Month, most poets read a poem of their own and a poem by a poet they admire.
As usual, corrections are welcome
| Jerry Dyer | “With This Heart” “My Heart” by Frank O’Hara |
| Vicki L Harvey | “When Will the Before become the Now?” “One Cedar Tree” by Joy Harjo |
| Lesa Medley | “Searching for Words” “Hippos on Holiday” by Billy Collins |
| Mary Lou Taylor | “First Communion” “Tragedy” by William Stafford |
| Joel Katz | “Swerve” “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper” by W C Williams |
| Jeffrey Leonard | “Bucks Lake” |
| Stephanie Pressman | “Trilogy for a Woman” “Triolet for Eric” by Ruth E. Foley |
| Clysta Seney | ““Open I’s Matter” “Passers-by” by Luis J. Rodriguez |
| Tim Tomasi | ““Are We There Yet?” “Sine Qua Non” by A. E. Stallings |
| Jean Emerson | ““A God Who Could Dance” “Thanks” by W. S. Merwin |
| Janet Trenchard | ““Valerian” “Eve in the Fall” by Debora Greger |
| Robin Lysne | ““All My Armor Has Been Dissolved” “Las Miradas” by Adam Cornford |
| Nick Butterfield | ““The En” “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver |
| Gayle Ross | ““Waiting for Words” “Hoarding Your Joys and Despairs” by Gregory Orr |
| Ted Gehrke | ““Buzz” “The Diamond Persona” by Norman Dubie |
| Mike Alvarado | ““Also, Also” “Prospective Immigrants, Please Note” by Adrienne Rich |
| Vuong Vu | ““Moon Watching” “Blue Moon” by Jerry Dyer |
| Erin Redfern | “To a Caged Rattlesnake” |
| Tim Tomasi | ““Both Drowning and Breathing” “Now the Moon is in the First Quarter” by Frank Gaspar |
| Valerie Kockelman | ““Widow’s Lament” “Don Chu Go!” by Naomi Shihab Nye |
| Shanti Tangri | ““Isaac’s Complaint” “Wanted: Someone who already Loves Me” by Susan Mann |
| Janice Pang | ““Penstemon ‘Margarita’ BOP” “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by e. e. cummings |
| Evelyn So | “Undertow,” by Mary-Marcia Casoly, and “From the House of Yemanja” by Audre Lorde |
| Floi Baker | ““Raven” “Nature’s Way” by Francesco Marciuliano |
| Renae Keep | ““Autobiography of a Phrase” “Variation on a Sentence” by Louise Bogan |
| Barbara Saxton | ““Daze without Poetry” “The Arrival of the Bee Box” by Sylvia Plath |
| Judith Schallberger | “The Gardener” by Mary Oliver |
| Ainsley Kelly | ““Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk Anymore” “Sequestered Writing” by Carolyn Forché |
| Patricia Machmiller | ““I Believe” “The Second Slaughter” by Lucia Perillo |
| June Hopper Hymas | ““Invocation” “Encounter” by Czeslaw Milosz |
| Leslie Hoffman | “Today, a Son of Africa” “Frederico’s Ghost” by Martin Espada |
| Pushpa MacFarlane | ““The Mind of a Poet” “Indian Names” by Lydia Sigourney |
| Tom Rimel | ““Topography” “After great pain” by Emily Dickinson |
| Carol Steele | ““Again I’ll Hang Prayer Flags” “City of My Youth” by Czeslaw Milosz |
| Maya Nair | ““A Closure” “O My Friends” by Mirabai |
| Renée Schell | ““Where the Food Comes From” “By the Sea” by Maura Stanton |
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