In February, for the first time ever, Penny had 20 poems receive more than 100 page views in a month. While welcome, that crowded out most of the month's new poetry. Rather than have the latter fail to chart, Penny is provisionally expanding the monthly chart to a Top 30.
Penny's Top 30
The most-visited poems on The Penny Blog in February 2026:
1. Poem for Kathy, Will Dockery
2. Afterglow, George J. Dance
6. Cherry-Ripe, Robert Herrick
7. The Blue Heron, Theodore Goodridge Roberts
8. To the Sea Angel, Will Dockery
9. Drifting Away: A Fragment, Charles Kingsley
10. Winter Nightfall, Robert Bridges
11. Before I sleep, some dreams draw nigh, George McDonald
12. A Dirge for Summer, Sebastian Evans
13. A Rhyme of Summer, James Berry Bensel
14. Penny, or Penny's Hat, George J. Dance
15. "Whan That Aprille . . .", John Dos Passos
16. The Man with the Blue Guitar, Wallace Stevens
17. A May Morning, John Davidson
18. January 1939, Dylan Thomas
19. Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas
20. Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin
21. I'm Not Just February, Annette Wynne
22. Haiku and Triolet, R.S. Mallari
23. Winter's Muse Caling, JD Shirk
25. Skating, William Wordsworth
26. Winterworld Descending, Will Dockery
27. Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens
28. Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud
29. February, Sophie Jewett
30. A Valentine, Lewis Carroll
