taking small bites - a poetry primer
taking small bites - a poetry primer  
Podcast: The Books We Loved
Published On: Wed Apr 15 2026
Description: Today the gals celebrate National Poetry Month by sharing bits and bobs from some of their favs.  Poetry titles shared today: “Wild Geese” – Mary Oliver “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” – Matthew Olzmann “A Primer” – Bob Hicock “Dirtbag” – Leigh Lucas “How to Like It” – Stephen Dobyns “What I Didn’t Know Before” – Ada Limon “Unchopping a Tree” – W.S. Merwin “Digging” – Seamus Heaney “I Sing the Body Electric” – Walt Whitman “Darkling I Listen” – Adam Clay “Funeral Blues” – W.H. Auden “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” – Adam Zagajewski “Nostalgia” – Billy Collins “Feet” – Ross Gay “Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967”