George Bilgere
poetry & readings
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These are the previous issues of Poetry Town.
OCTOBER 2024
1 BIlly Collins, What She Said
2 J.R. Solonche, The Poem of the Future
3 Donna Masini, Slowly
4 Connie Wanek, Talking to Dad
5 William Heath, The Vet
6 Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
7 Heather Swan, Boy
8 Barbara Crooker, This Summer Day
9 Maggie Smith, First Fall
10 George Bilgere, Europe
11 AE Hines, What Did You Imagine Would Grow?
12 Howard Nemerov, The Consent
13 José A. Alcántara, Archilochus Colubris
14 Kelle Groom, Oldest Map of the World
15 John Ashbery, Myrtle
16 Laura Foley, What Stillness
SEPTEMBER 2024
1 Joseph Mills, We’ve Had This Conversation Before
2 Connie Wanek, A Sighting
3 Ann Iverson, Waves and Wet Kisses
4 Greg Delanty, From Woody’s Restaurant, Middlebury
5 Margaret S. Mullins, Lonely Harvest
6 Grace Paley, He Wanders
7 Dorinne Laux, Dark Charms
8 John Balaban, Passing through Albuquerque
9 Kirsten Dierking, In the Produce Aisle
10 Davi Walders, Anniversary
11 Charlotte Parsons, Nine-Eleven
12 Kari Gunter-Seymour, When the DJ Plays Bad Company...
13 Thomas McGrath, Beyond the Red River
14 Krista Lukas, The Day I Die
15 Richard Wilbur, The Death of a Toad
16 Theodore Deppe, The Russian Greatcoat
17 David Lee, Loading a Boar
18 Jane Attanucci, Falling
19 Rozel Hunt, Fabulous Pizza
20 John Donoghue, In the Design Review Meeting He Said
21 Marjorie Saiser, She Gives Me the Watch off Her Arm
22 Peter Makuck, Toward Paris
23 Steve Straight, Imperfection
24 Sue Ellen Thompson, Sewing
25 Dana Gioia, The Road
26 Thomas Hardy, A Thunderstorm in Town
27 Tony Hoagland, Meadow
28 Kay Ryan, Blandeur
29 Frank O’Hara, Autobiographia Literaria
30 Brian Bilston, America Is a Gun
AUGUST 2024
1 Ellen Bass, For My Daughter on Her Twenty-First Birthday
2 Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain
3 Lyuba Yakimchuk, Crow, Wheels
4 Wallace McRae, Reincarnation
5 D.C. Berry, On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High
6 Karen Schubert, Non-Traditional Student
7 George Bilgere, Robert Frost
8 Tom Wayman, Did I Miss Anything?
9 Billy Collins, Tension
10 Fanny Howe, But I, Too, Want to Be a Poet
11 Jane Hirshfield, For What Binds Us
12 George Bilgere, Post-Olympics
13 Louis Jenkins, Baloney
14 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, The Golf Links
15 Ross Gay, A Small Needful Fact
16 Ron Koertge, Grand Avenue
17 F.J. Bergmann, An Apology
18 Tony Hoagland, Little Champion
19 Peter Harris, Will We Survive?
20 Linda Hasselstrom, Clara: In the Post Office
21 Gillian Wegener, Nature Walk
22 David Hernandez, Sincerely, the Sky
23 Thomas R. Smith, Trust
24 Irene Blair Honeycutt, Blessing
25 Sean Sexton, Untitled Poem
26 Paul Violi, At the Cottage of Messer Violi
27 Linda Gregg, A Dark Thing Inside the Day
28 George Bilgere, Little League
29 Naomi Shihab Nye, Generations
30 Charles Simic, The Partial Explanation
31 Mary Mackey, My Methodist Grandmother Said
JULY 2024