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Orion magazine thanks you for helping us celebrate National Poetry Month!  Please check out all of these wonderful poetry suggestions from the past month and check out even more goodies on dir...

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Poetry Book: My treasured copy of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The lilac elegy is not included in this edition – it wasn’t written yet. Location: The lilacs are bloo...

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location: nested in a lilac on the East side of Seattle, near the Sammamish River Trail. poetry book:  Oracle, by Cate Marvin recommended by: Jeannine Hall Gailey (Redmond, WA)  

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location:  Sharon and this book have been touchstones in my life. I placed it near the blooming forsythia and last fall’s acorns. Doesn’t get any wilder than my yard, which is in need of so...

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Location: My front yard in Springfield, Illinois next to a native Sweetspire Poetry Book: Susan Briante’s The Market Wonders Recommended by: Adam Clay

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Location: Penn State Altoona campus pond in Altoona, PA, the perfect place to play a round of Duck, Duck, Poem. poetry book: Winterkill by Todd Davis recommended by: Erin Murphy

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location: basking in what passes for “wilderness” in my neck of the woods: New York harbor as seen from Red Hook. Grotz’ book is filled with luminous poems of longing and travel, so it seem...

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Location: front lawn / wet weeds / dry book Poetry book: Complete Minimal Poems, by Aram Saroyan Recommended by: Heather Christle

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Location: My neighbor’s tree ring in Fort Collins, CO. Because my own tulip bulbs, planted last fall, are only just beginning to show their green glory in the first week of April, I headed acro...

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location: On the roof of an 18th century mansion, overlooking a budding spring in the north end of Lexington KY. poetry book: Amalia Ortiz. Rant. Chant. Chisme.  recommended by: Rebecca Ga...

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Location: The sky and newly-green sweetgum branches as viewed from the hammock in my backyard in Montgomery, AL. We can always look to the sky and poems for wildness. Poetry book: Light Is the ...

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Location: Sunning by my in-laws’ backyard garden pool in Palmetto Bay, FL. Poetry book: Trilingual Renshi by 四元康祐 Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (日/Japanese) 明迪 Ming Di（中/Chinese） �...

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LOCATION: kitchen table with my Blue Death Feigning Beetle crawling around on the book BOOK: The Classic Tradition of Haiku, Faubion Bowers ed. (Dover Thrift Editions) RECOMMENDER: Kimiko Ha...

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Location: My pear tree, South Philly. The city gives homeowners a flowering tree upon request, sending a crew out to drill a tree pit in the sidewalk. It cools the rowhomes in the summer. Today, ...

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Location: 31st and 6th, Manhattan, outside the ballroom dance academy my daughter attends (she’s the hand in the photo). I had been reading in the waiting room during her class. It was a gray a...

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Location: Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London. With bluebells and tree stump and Rabindranath Tagore cast in bronze. Poetry book: Brain Fever by Kimiko Hahn recommended by: R.A. Villanueva

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Location: Blackberries in bloom after a rain, a few drops falling on the book cover, Moonlight and Goldie clucking in my backyard. poetry book: The New Testament by Jericho Brown recommended ...

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Location: The Mississippi River, just three blocks away from the Tinderbox Editions office on an extraordinarily windy April day. Earlier, snow was coming down slantwise and my daughter was askin...

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Hosta sprouts in my garden in Columbus, OH, after April snow. Animal Purpose, by Michelle Y. Burke Recommended by Kathy Fagan

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Location: leaning against the gate btwn my front yard and my neighbors front yard in Little Haiti, Miami. Poetry book: Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky by Thylias Moss Recommended b...

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