For our January meeting, we focused on poets who had earned a distinctive honor in celebration of poetry coming back to the inaugural activities.
Maxine Kumin (1925- ) – Pulitzer prize winner for Poems of New England in 1972, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
Kay Ryan (1945- ) – appointed the 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by the Library of Congress
Duck
Turtle
The Edges or Time
Patience
A Cat/A Future
Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard
Robert Frost (1874-1963) – delivered poem at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) – first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone
Maya Angelou (1928- ) – delivered poem at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993
Still I Rise
Woman Work
On the Pulse of Morning
The Health-Food Diner
Wislawa Symborska (1923-) – Nobel laureate, 1996
Margaret Atwood (1939- ) – multiple award winner for poetry and literature
Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga) (1889-1957) – first female Latin American poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945.
The Poets' Notebook 