Poem of the Month

Poem of the Month

Each month we reveal a new personality reading a favorite poem, new poetry suggestions, and upcoming poetry events. 

Poet: George Bilgere
Poem: “The Bridal Shower” 
Read by:  George Bilgere 

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George Bilgere:

• George Bilgere’s website  
  
• “The Bridal Shower,” the featured poem in Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac” on February 25, 2009  
  
• Other Bilgere poems featured in “The Writer’s Almanac” 
  
• Wordplay, Bilgere’s weekly radio show on WJCU 88.7 FM. 
  Listen on Fridays 6-6:30 p.m. and Saturdays 7:30-8 a.m. 

Favorite Poem Readings

Listen to one of our newest Community Readings where we recorded people reading their favorite poems.   

Poem of the Month Archive

David Wroblewski Poem: The Way    Things Work   by Jorie Graham	Michael Stern Poem: Reincarnation by Wallace McRae
Matt O'Dwyer Poem: Down by the    Salley Gardens by William Butler      Yeats	Myla Goldberg Poem: This is Just    to Say by William Carlos      Williams
Colson Whitehead Poem: In a Station    of the Metro   by Ezra Pound	David Kirby Poem: Borges at the    Northside       Rotary Club  by David Kirby
Rosemary Harris Poem: Annabel Lee   by Edgar Allan Poe	Nancy Pearl Poem: It Was Like This:    You Were Happy   by Jane Hirshfield
George Bilgere Poem: The Doggie Dip by George Bilgere	Dee Perry  Poem: Sparkles on the Wheel by Walt Whitman
Nancy Pearl Poem: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver	Steve Hockensmith  Poem: In My Dentist's Basement by Steve Hockensmith