Flight Lines
A daily selection of aviation-related verse to mark National Poetry Month.
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APRIL 1
The Old Pilot
Donald Hall
APRIL 2
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
William Carlos Williams
APRIL 3
Flying at Night
Ted Kooser
APRIL 4
Dog Asleep
William Stafford
APRIL 7
Toward the Space Age
William Stafford
APRIL 8
The Man in the Dead Machine
Donald Hall
APRIL 9
The Lunar Probe
Maxine Kumin
APRIL 10
To Beachey, 1912
Carl Sandburg
APRIL 11
Heel & Toe to the End
William Carlos Williams
APRIL 14
Ode for Orville and Wilbur Wright
David Moolten
APRIL 15
The Black Hole
Robert Pack
APRIL 16
Vacation
Rita Dove
APRIL 17
untitled
Thomas Gray
APRIL 18
Autobiography at an Air-Station
Philip Larkin
APRIL 21
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell
APRIL 22
Small Plane in Kansas
Thom Gunn
APRIL 23
Amelia
Gill Robb Wilson
APRIL 24
Eagle Youth
Karle Wilson Baker
APRIL 25
Losses
Randall Jarrell
APRIL 28
The Boy's First Flight
Gary Soto
APRIL 29
Flying Crooked
Robert Graves
APRIL 30
An Airman's Hymn
Francis M. Miller