Today’s poem is by Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017), an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program.[1][2] He wrote fourteen books of poetry.[3]
—Bio via Wikipedia
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"
Gelett Burgess' "The Purple Cow"
Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Jane Kenyon's "Taking Down the Tree"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "The world is a beautiful place"
William Carlos Williams' "January"
Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"
W. S. Merwin's "To the New Year"
Robert Burns' "Auld Lang Syne"
Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"
Wendell Berry's "Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer"
Dorianne Laux's "Family Stories"
John Mason Neale's "Good King Wenceslas"
Two Poems for Christmas
T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"
Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Ruth Moose's "My Father's Fruitcake"
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo"
G. K. Chesterton's "A Child of the Snows"
Mark Doty's "Messiah (Christmas Portions)"
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