Tag Archives: Poetry
Like Coins, November – poem by Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck
By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006
I love poems in which the central metaphors are fresh and original, and here’s
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Yam, poem by Bruce Guernsey
Yam
The potato that ate all its carrots,
can see in the dark like a mole,
its eyes the scars
from centuries of shovels,
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Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949, poem by Margaret Kaufman
Margaret Kaufman's poem, "Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949," included in the American Life in Poetry series.
Night in Day, poem by Joseph Stroud
One of the privileges of being U.S. Poet Laureate was to choose two poets each year to receive a $10,000 fellowship, funded by the Witter Bynner Foundation. Joseph Stroud, who lives in California, was one of my choices. This poem is representative of his clear-eyed, imaginative poetry. - Ted Kooser U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
The Whistle, poem by Kathy Mangan