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Read Poems and a Story by John Updike
Some selections from John Updike’s two final books: Endpoint (poems) and My Father’s Tears (stories).
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May 1: Written Late at Night by Janusz Szuber
Au revoir from the Knopf poetry team. We hope to see you next April.
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April 30: Creeper and Fine Point by John Updike
Knopf’s poetry month closes with the last two “fourteeners” written by John Updike. This pair comes at the end of the autobiographical title sequence around which Endpoint, his final collection, is built.
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April 29: The Mistake by Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his last book, Refusing Heaven, is now in his mid-eighties, still celebrating and sorrowing to the fullest.
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April 28: Some Different Kinda Books by Sapphire
A poem from the 1999 volume Black Wings & Blind Angels, by Sapphire, who is also a novelist.
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April 26: There is No City that Does Not Dream by Anne Michaels
This poem by Anne Michaels, written more than a decade ago, anticipates some of the themes of her new novel The Winter Vault, a passionate love story which juxtaposes historic events—the building of the St Lawrence Seaway and the Aswan Dam—with intimate moments in the lives of the characters, whose paths are altered in the course of their involvement with these ambitious constructions.
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April 25: Some Playthings by John Hollander
“Some Playthings,” by the distinguished John Hollander, a poet for whom serious and light verse, the formal and the playful, flow forth in equal measure.
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April 24: Notes For Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary by Jane Mayhall
Today we remember the poet Jane Mayhall, who died a few weeks ago at the age of ninety, and who wrote remarkable poems on such subjects as “Wastebaskets” (”in all that / heaven and debris, a lot of / my first gut ideas / were right”) or an obsolete subway token found in a shoulder bag, a symbol of the long-burnished imponderables in a New York life.
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April 23: Impressions of Africa by Kenneth Koch
Today, a selection from “Impressions of Africa,” one of the energetic longer poems of Kenneth Koch (1925-2002), a poet of the New York School, who, along with his influential school-mates Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery and James Schuyler, believed in a continual and highly personal, poet by poet renewal of the old forms and mannerisms of American poetry.
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Sign up the for Knopf Poetry newsletter to receive information about our new and forthcoming poetry titles. And during the month of April, you'll receive a new poem every day, plus extras like audio clips, broadsides, signed books, and more, as part of our annual celebration of National Poetry Month.Knopf's Poem-a-Day 2009
April 1: Half Moon, Small Cloud by John UpdikeApril 2: Going Back to Bed by J.D. McClatchy
April 3: Like Giving to a Blind Man Eyes by Ruth Padel
April 4: Waiting On Elvis, 1956 by Joyce Carol Oates
April 5: Exile’s Child by D. Nurkse
April 6: A Summer Outing by Du Fu
April 7: Touch-Me-Nots by Jill Bialosky
April 8: Sweet Voices and Voices by C.P. Cavafy
April 9: On the Jetty by C.P. Cavafy
April 10: Fragment on Dissembling by Lucie Brock-Broido
April 11: Page From the Koran by James Merrill
April 12: Spring Song II by Jean Garrigue
April 13: Ode to Pepper Vinegar by Kevin Young
April 14: Greeter of Souls by Deborah Digges
April 15: You’re Beautiful by Simon Armitage
April 16: Two Short Poems by Mark Strand
April 17: To See My Mother by Sharon Olds
April 18: Wallace Stevens and Donald Justice
April 19: Robert Lowell’s Poetry Class by Stephanie Hemphill
April 20: Storm by Brooks Haxton
April 21: A Good List by Brad Leithauser
April 22: The Pond by Jim Powell
April 23: Impressions of Africa by Kenneth Koch
April 24: Notes For Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary by Jane Mayhall
April 25: Some Playthings by John Hollander
April 26: There is No City that Does Not Dream by Anne Michaels
April 27: Description of Her Eyes by Franz Wright
April 28: Some Different Kinda Books by Sapphire
April 29: The Mistake by Jack Gilbert
April 30: Creeper and Fine Point by John Updike
May 1: Written Late at Night by Janusz Szuber
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