Flight Lines
Some of our favorite poems about aviation—updated daily during National Poetry Month.
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APRIL 1
An Emblem of Byzantium
Devin Johnston
APRIL 2
An Airstrip in Essex 1960
Donald Hall
APRIL 3
The Race
Sharon Olds
APRIL 6
Sonic Boom
John Updike
APRIL 7
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief
Maxine Kumin
APRIL 8
A History of Air Travel
Anna Leahy
APRIL 9
Skywriting
Charles Tomlinson
APRIL 10
Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Diane Glancy
APRIL 13
Persistence of 1937
Donald Hall
APRIL 14
TWA 800
Mary Jo Salter
APRIL 15
Space Shuttle
Diane Ackerman
APRIL 16
Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
Averill Curdy
APRIL 17
The Pilot in the Jungle
John Ciardi
APRIL 20
Warbird
Anna Leahy
APRIL 21
The Eagle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
APRIL 22
Laika
Esther Schor
APRIL 23
Voyage to the Moon
Archibald MacLeish
APRIL 24
A Leaf from a Log Book
H. Babcock
APRIL 27
Sky Writers
William Rose Benét
APRIL 28
The Grave the Well
Donald Hall
APRIL 29
from Cape Hatteras
Hart Crane
APRIL 30
The Stars Don't Dance
Anna Leahy