Poems for July 20

I was unable to be present to moderate, but sent in addition to the poems below, a link to the Dodge Festival "packet of poems" https://mcusercontent.com/fd2fe375bb1dabd5d4038c3c8/files/9ce4b2e9-0533-152b-cf78-e89d7d1bba5b/AHWP_2022_Poem_Packet.pdf?mc_cid=b7aef879fe&mc_eid=a98fdc3627 as there was no meeting 7/27 due to room conflict.

Same poems as above but with names of poets: https://mcusercontent.com/fd2fe375bb1dabd5d4038c3c8/files/4ce58bb2-fcf2-4439-e7f7-de7a48cd816c/AHWP_Poem_Packet_2022_with_attributions.01.pdf?mc_cid=78d68a077e&mc_eid=a98fdc3627

The poems for Wednesday 7/20  looked at samples of work from 8 of the National US Poet Laureates who served between 2007- 2022

Without by Joy Harjo (NPL 2019-22)

Ada Limon, when she received the news that she was nominated

as the 24th National Poet Laureate (NPL) of the United States, chose this poem by Joy Harjo,

the 23rd National Poet Laureate, to honor her as "incredible poet and human who served as Poet Laureate for an unprecedented three terms".

 sampling of her work!  

 An Old Story by Tracy K. Smith (NPL 2017-2019)  In 2019, Tracy created  the podcast the Slow Down, a daily site where she would pick a poem and introduce it with a short sentence or two. She passed on the responsibility to Ada Limon in September 2021.  This  is a poem of hers chosen by Ada. https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022/01/12/587-an-old-story

Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings by Juan Felipe Herrera -- (NPL 2015-17) 

In Praise of What is Missing by Charles Wright (NPL 2014-5)

Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath by Natasha Trethewey (NPL 2012-14)

Call It Music  by Philip Levine (NPL 2011-2012) 

(W.S. Merwin (NPL 2010-2011) "Merwin may be the living poet whose imagination is most purely -- and with the most reliable illusion of ease -- poetic." -- Pinsky https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2005/11/20/ws-merwin-has-inspired-p/c33b7c3a-cdbd-47a1-b9f9-955ea6eef8d4/  

Kathy Button is our Merwin specialist and we have discussed countless of his poems!)

Nothing Ventured Kay Ryan - 1945- (NPL 2008-2010)

All these Mirrors  by Charles Simic (NPL 2007-2008)