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
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)"
W. H. Auden's "O Tell Me the Truth About Love"
Three Poems for St. Lucy's Day
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
Mary Jo Salter's "Advent"
Czeslaw Milosz' "Blacksmith Shop"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith"
Robert Burns' "To a Mouse"
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"
James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
Mary Oliver's "The Mangroves"
A. E. Stallings' "Denouement"
William Blake's "Jerusalem"
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