In this, our final week of the 2024 Celebration, we enjoy poems of love and renewal by our marvelous community poets, I reveal the prize-winners, and I share some poems of world-love to keep us going throughout the year of poetry to come.
Thank you to all of you for your company and for your poems!
Thank you to Jumping Fox Design for the beautiful notebooks and for supporting us for five years of Poetry Celebrations!
Thank you to Dana Wilde for so generously providing Amazon gift cards for five lucky poets and for her belief in us and in poetry!
Thank you to all of the poets we have read and learned from all month!
Thank to the Academy of American Poets for the wonderful poster featuring Lucille Clifton’s poem “burning the boats” and illustration by Jack Wong. I treasure it!
LOVE AND GRATITUDE ALL AROUND!
SOURCES FOR OUR FEATURED POEMS
Three poems from The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade: “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“The Earthworm” by Harry Martinson, translated by Robert Bly
“Sometimes I go about pitying myself” – Chippewa music, adapted from the translation by Frances Densmore