NPM 2010 – Introduction to Poetry

Introduction to Poetry   by Billy Collins   I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and [...]

NPM 2010 – Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Today is “Poem in Your Pocket Day!” Stop in the library and pick up a pocket-sized poem for your pocket today! “Keep a Poem in Your Pocket” Keep a poem in your pocket, and a picture in your head and you’ll never feel lonely at night when you’re in bed. The little poem will sing [...]

NPM 2010 – A Faery Song

A Faery Song Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania, in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech. We who are old, old and gay, O so old! Thousands of years, thousands of years, If all were told: Give to these children, new from the world, Silence and love; And the long dew-dropping [...]

NPM 2010 – Partly Cloudy

“Rationale” Already tall at thirteen, she walks In platform shoes.  I can’t help But think like a guy. We could use a center – We’re 0-3 at the start of the season, And so ugly on the court We could use beauty. – Gary Soto from Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing

NPM 2010 – Good Poems

“Poem to Be Read at 3 A.M.” Excepting the diner On the outskirts The town of Ladora At 3 A.M. Was dark but For my headlights And up in One second-story room A single light Where someone Was sick or Perhaps reading As I drove past At seventy Not thinking This poem Is for whoever [...]