Kansas Poem In Your Pocket Project

These poems were sent daily to people who signed up to receive them during April of 2011 in celebration of poetry month.

• April 1: “Cherokee Lessons” by Denise Low

• April 2: “Reading William Stafford in a Snowstorm” by Al Ortolani

• April 3: “It Was Then Our Lives A Little Fire” by Diane Glancey

• April 4: “How to Read a Winter Field” by Beth Schultz

• April 5: “Vanguard” by Eric McHenry

• April 6: “Whisper Poem” by Katherine Greene

• April 7: “When Desire Moves” by Donna Wolff

• April 8: “Still Life With Dirty Dishes” by Ramona McCallum

• April 9: “Past Muster” by Judith Roitman

• April 10: “Stubble and Sleeping” by Ken Lassman

• April 11: “Hiawatha” by Vic Contoski

• April 12: “We Read” by Kevin Rabas

• April 13: “Standing Right Here” by Peter Wright

• April 14: “Cow Creek” by Allison Berry

• April 15: “Blackberries” by Patricia Traxler

• April 16: “Nobody Wants To Write An Elegy” by William Joe Harris

• April 17: “Take Memory Lightly” by Nancy Hubble

• April 18: “Driving West” by Olive Sullivan

• April 19: “The Perfect Poem” by William Sheldon

• April 20: “The Frontier Bride” by Kathleen Johnson

• April 21: “Abject Impermanence in Kansas” by Walter Bargen

• April 22: “Scene from a Post-Apocalyptic Art Film” by Rebekah Curry

• April 23: “At the Museum of Flowers” by Lori Brack

• April 24: “Celebrate This Kansas” by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

• April 25: “Pecan Picking” by Melissa Fite

• April 26: “Lily-Flowered Tulips” by Laura Lee Washburn

• April 27: “Crow Speaks His Mind” by H. C. Palmer

• April 28: “Immigrant Song” by Thomas Reynolds

• April 29: “Beside a Summer Road” by Steven Hind

• April 30 (Double-Header): “Blue Brick From The Midwest” by Kim Stafford and “Assurance” by William Stafford