Poems for Spring

Our anthology of spring poems is growing! We’ve added several 17th century poems to our collection of classics on spring themes:

• “Vanitas Vanitatum” from The Devil’s Law Case by John Webster (1623)
• “The Spring” by Thomas Carew (1640)
• “Corinna’s Going a-Maying” by Robert Herrick (1648)

And we’ve selected the best from among the many poems we received in the last month from contemporary poets around the world, adding poems by Denis Dunn, Doug Holder, Jack Peachum and Bill Vartnaw to our anthology. Happy reading, and no hay fever!

We are still reviewing submissions, particularly for this spring anthology and for our summer collection -- you are invited to submit your own poems or suggest your favorite classics. (Please take note of one caution: the text box on our submission page doesn’t convey your format accurately when you type a poem into it -- so we ask you to use slashes (“/”) to indicate line breaks and double slashes (“//”) to indicate stanzas.)