Featured Poem: “October,” by Louise Glück
Poem of the Week: “Ghazal,” by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Poem of the Week: “Exegesis” by Leila Chatti
Poem of the Week: “The Gardener” by Patricia Hooper
Poem of the Week: “A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay
Poem of the Week: “My Wisdom” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poem of the Week: "a woman's place" by Denice Frohman
Poem of the Week: “Bird” by Dorianne Laux
Poem of the Week: “Waking After the Surgery,” by Leila Chatti
Poem of the Week: “Late February” by Ted Kooser
Poem of the Week: “We Should Make a Documentary About Spades” by Terrance Hayes
Poem of the Week: “Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon” by Franny Choi
Poem of the Week: “Drum Dream Girl” by Margarita Engle
Poem of the Week: “how to say” by Safia Elhillo
Review Alert: “Smuggling Elephants through Airport Security”
On Idleness and Enchantment by Jeanine Hathaway
Poem of the Week: “Ghazal” by Tracy K. Smith
Book Review: come see about me, marvin by Brian G. Gilmore
Poem of the Week: “Cold Poem” by Mary Oliver
Smuggling Elephants Through Airport Security Released from MSU Press
Poem of the Week: “New Year’s Day” by Kim Addonizio
Poem of the Week: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Robert Frost
Poem of the Week: “Wife” by Ada Limón
Poem of the Week: “Gratitude” by Jon Davis
Poem of the Week: “Winter” by Billy Collins
Poem of the Week: “This Morning I Pray for My Enemies” by Joy Harjo
Poem of the Week: “Driving,” by Jenny Linn Loveland
Poem of the Week: “Backfires” by Fleda Brown
Defining Commonality: A Handmade Dictionary
Poem of the Week: “What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black (Reflections of an African-American Mother)” by Margaret Burroughs
Poem of the Week: “Song of the Witches: ‘Double, double toil and trouble’ by William Shakespeare
Poem of the Week: “Willingly,” by Tess Gallagher
Poem of the Week: “Like Vine Maple Red in the Fir,” by Alice Derry
Poem of the Week: “Equinox,” by Elizabeth Alexander
Poem of the Week: “WHEN I SAY THAT WE ARE ALL TEEN GIRLS” by Olivia Gatwood
Poem of the Week: “Awaken,” by Naima Penniman, of Climbing PoeTree
Poem of the Week: “Grace”
Poem of the Week: “The Rider”
Poem of the Week: “Questionnaire”
Noah Davis wins the 2019 (Emerging) Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
MSU Professor Laura Apol named Lansing Poet Laureate
First Book Spine Poetry Contest a Success
Poem of the Week: “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”
Poem of the Week: excerpt from “Perihelion: A History of Touch”
Poem of the Week: “Blind Boone’s Pianola Blues,” by Tyehimba Jess
Poem of the Week: “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Poem of the Week: “In Which God Shows Me Their Dress,” by Dalton Day
Poem of the Week : “Spring Sunshine,” by Ellen Ni Bheachain
Poem of the Week: “Jubilee,” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Poem of the Week: “for the poets who gather here,” by Grace Carras
Poem of the Week: “I Remember the Carrots,” by Ada Limón
Poem of the Week: “The Coffee Aisle,” by Graham Barnhart
Founder Anita Skeen featured in MSU Today
Poem of the Week: “When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows,” by Paige Lewis
Poem of the Week “A Warm Day in Winter,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poem of the Week: “Aquarium, February,” by Liz Ahl
Poem of the Week: “Miscegenation,” by Natasha Trethewey
Poem of the Week: “The Older Man,” by Karin Gottshall
Poem of the Week: “Burning the Old Year,” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poem of the Week: “The Trace of Hope from Lock 29: Advent 2018,” by David Adams
Poem of the Week: “After Apple-Picking,” by Robert Frost
Poem of the Week: “Waiting for a Poem,” by Lulieta Lleshanaku
Poem of the (holi)Day: “Wild Gratitude,” by Edward Hirsch
Poem of the Week: “Perhaps the World Ends Here,” by Joy Harjo
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