New Year's Inspiration

If you think of the new year as an opportunity to reflect and set goals for the future, then the Academy of American Poets suggests these 10 poems for inspiration.

1. “Time to be the fine line of light” by Carrie Fountain
2. “When I Rise Up” by Georgia Douglas Johnson
3. “These Poems” by June Jordan
4. “The Leash” by Ada Limón
5. “The Penitent” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
6. “Assured” by Alexander Posey
7. “The Dream” by Lola Ridge
8. from “Elegy in Joy” by Muriel Rukeyser
9. "The Call of the Open" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
10. “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith

http://poetsonline.org for poetic inspiration

from Poets Online blog http://bit.ly/2R0eLkL