Your favorite poems

We heard you! April was National Poetry Month. Thank you for sharing your favorite poems with us.

• Amaar Al-Hayder chose:
  “Enshodat Al-Matar (Arabic)” by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
• Donna Espenberg chose:
  “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
• Nadine Horton chose:
  “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
• Lauren Langford chose:
  “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” by Walt Whitman
• Julie Linden chose:
  “A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón
• Lisa Maloney chose:
  “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
• Carrie McDaniel chose:
  “Risk” by Anaïs Nin
• Red McGarry chose:
  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
• Gena McGuire chose:
  “The World is a Beautiful Place” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Remi Moët-Buonaparte chose:
  “Bonne Pensée du Matin” by Arthur Rimbaud
• Marcella Simpson chose:
  “Children” by Kahlil Gibran
• Anonymous submissions:
  “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
  “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
  “I, Too” by Langston Hughes
  “Tired” by Langston Hughes
  “My Heart’s in the Highlands” by Robert Burns