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Featured Poems

In 2020, to mark The Penny Blog's 10th anniversary, we began adding monthly Featured Poems. Each month we would select a best poem from the old archives and promote it along with that month's new poetry. Only poems that had been on the blog for at least ten years would be eligible – our idea was to highlight excellent poems we had posted at the beginning that never found an audience (since our reach was so low back then). The following year, for the record, we began including the Featured Poem notices on the blog while continuing to send them out in promotions.  

This year (2026) we are taking the next step, and giving the Featured Poems their own dedicated page. We have built up a great list of them in the past five years, which can only improve in time. This page is the best of the best, The Penny Blog's equivalent of a poetry Hall of Fame. 

If you are new to the blog, these poems are a good place to start; we hope that even our regulars will be able to find and like new poems and poets here. Enjoy! 

January

2022 A January Morning, Archibald Lampman
2023 The Snow Man, Wallace Stevens
2024 Velvet Shoes, Elinor Wylie
2025 A Winter Picture, Ethelwyn Wetherald
2026 The Winter Lakes, William Wilfred Campbell

February

2022 Afternoon in February, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2023 To February, Ethelwyn Wetherald
2024 The Winter Fields, Charles G.D. Roberts
2025 The Quiet Snow, Raymond Knister
2026 Afterglow, George J. Dance

March

2022 A Light Exists in Spring, Emily Dickinson
2023 Mars & Avril, George J. Dance 
2025 Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, E.E. Cummings
2026 A March Day in London, Amy Levy

April

2022 Spring, Edna St. Vincent Millay
2024 April in the Hills, Archibald Lampman
2025 An April Fool of Long Ago, Jean Blewett

May

2022 May, Christina Rossetti
2023 Corinna's Going a-Maying, Robert Herrick
2025 May Wind, Sara Teasdale

June

2021 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Christopher Marlowe
2022 In June and Gentle Oven, Anne Wilkinson
2023 Spring Morning, A.A. Milne
2024 A Day in June, James Russell Lowell
2025 Metric Figure, William Carlos Williams

July

2021 July Midnight, Amy Lowell
2022 Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion, Wallace Stevens
2023 The Idlers, Pauline Johnson 
2024 When Summer Comes, Sophia Almon Hensley
2025 Summer 1969, Michael G. Munoz

August

2021 An August Mood, Duncan Campbell Scott
2022 A City Sunset, T.E. Hulme
2023 Heat in the City, Charles G.D. Roberts
2024 The Beach in August, Weldon Kees
2025 A Song to Mithras, Rudyard Kipling

September

2021 September Night, George J. Dance
2022 A Song for September, Thomas William Parsons
2023 At the End of September, Sandor Petofi
2024 Fair Summer Droops, Thomas Nashe
2025 The Dwarf, Wallace Stevens

October

2021 Mnemosyne, Trumbull Stickney
2022 Fall, Leaves, Fall, Emily Brontë
2023 A Vagabond Song, Bliss Carman
2024 Autumn's Orchestra, Pauline Johnson
2025 October, Elinor Wylie

November

2022 No!, Thomas Hood
2023 A Scroll, George J. Dance
2024 For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon
2025 I Speak Your Name, Sophie Jewett

December

2021 Christmas Bells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2022 It came upon the midnight clear, Edmund H. Sears
2023 The Huron Carol, trans. J. Edgar Middleton
2024 In the Bleak Mid-winter, Christina Rossetti
2025 Christmas at Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson

Calendars

Since 2012, we have been posting poetic calendars: sonnet or other series of 12 poems, one for each month, running (with some variations) over the course of a year. We have added ten such calendars to date. (Note that these series have to be manually navigated to be read in order; the starting link is to the first or January poem in the series, and each poem's page has a link to the one following.) 


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