"Horses" by Witter Bynner

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 5, 2018   Horses   Witter Bynner

Words are hoops Through which to leap upon meanings, Which are horses' backs, Bare, moving.                This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Horses" appeared in Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse (Nicholas L. Brown, 1920).   Witter Bynner was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1881. He is the author of the poetry collections An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems (Small, Maynard & Company, 1907) and Indian Earth (Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), among many others. He died in 1968. Poetry by Bynner   Selected Poems: The Works of Witter Bynner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966) "Why I Am Obsessed with Horses" by Michael McGriff "A Horse Named Never" by Jennifer Chang "Horses at Midnight Without a Moon" by Jack Gilbert May Guest Editor: Matthew Shenoda   Thanks to Matthew Shenoda, author of Tahrir Suite: Poems (TriQuarterly Books, 2014), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Shenoda and our guest editors for the year. Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038