To honor the last day of April, National Poetry Month, here are the inspiring poems that people read aloud outdoors last week at our SAVE PBC rallies. As we look to the University to keep to their word and contribute to a business solution to help the bookstore, let's keep the cause alive by going into the store this week and buying a book! 34th & Sansom. We're not done yet, More to come...

Monday, 4/22

1. Chi-ming Yang: “I Don’t Want This Poem to End” (excerpt) by Mahmoud Darwish, trans. Mohammad Shaheen.
2. Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach: “For War and Water” by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach.
3. Jed Esty: “A Door just opened on a street” by Emily Dickinson.
4. Raena Shirali: "At Home, in the Empire" by Raena Shirali.

Tuesday, 4/23

1. Davy Knittle: from A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster.
2. Dan Jones: "Friends" by John Ashbery.
3. Herman Beavers: “Gratitude” by Cornelius Eady.
4. Michelle Taransky: “Metaphor to Action” by Muriel Rukeyser.

Wednesday, 4/24

1. Deb Burnham: “Ruined by Reading” by Lynne Sharon Schwartz.
2. Knar Gavin: "Desired Appreciation" from Solmaz Sharif's Look (Graywolf Press, 2016). And lines from Susan Howe, Sorting Facts, Or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at
   Marker (New Directions, 2013). 
3. Orchid Tierney: "Declaration, Condition, and Fate of the Artist” by Francis Ponge, translated by Jonathan Larson. Nioque of the Early-Spring, (Cave Song, 2018).
4. Anne-Adele Wright: "Innocence like a Sewing Machine" by Anne-Adele Wight, from An Internet of Containment, (BlazeVOX, 2018).
5. Steve Burns: "Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" by Li-Young Lee  and "Inheritance" by Steve Burns, Connotation Press.
6. Ania Loomba: “Don’t Ask Me for That Love Again” by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, trans. Agha Shahid Ali. And “Speak” by Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
7. Grace Knight: “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams.

Thursday, 4/25

1. Ahmad Almallah: "A Language of New York" by George Oppen.
2. Suvir Kaul: “What the Chairman Said to Tom” by Basil Bunting.
3. Samuel Martin: "Neither hope nor fortune" by Georges Schehadé, Les Poésies.
4. Nick Millman: “Arrival Day” by Eve L. Ewing, from Electric Arches. 
5. David Wallace: “Truth” by Geoffrey Chaucer.  
6. Al Filreis: “It isnt for want” by Cid Corman.  
7. Sarah Ruden,"The Marsh Birds" by Sarah Ruden.
8. Dagmawi Woubshet: “Empty Bed Blues” by Bessie Smith.

Friday, 4/26: Children’s Literature Day@ Penn Book Center

1. Paul Saint-Amour: The Monster at the End of This Book, by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin.
2. Kristy Hsi: To All the Boys I've Loved Before, by Jenny Han.
3. Darby Levin: How to Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell.
4. Linda Pang: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by JK Rowling.
5. Mingo Reynolds: Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White.
6. Melissa Jensen: The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson.