Wordplay: Auden

National Poetry Month has just ended, but spring is in the air, and in these poems. This week’s poems include:

“The Bad Muse” by Lawrence Raab
“The First Green of Spring” by David Budbill
“Lesson” by Eamon Grennan
“Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“What I Gave the 20th Century” by Kevin Prufer
“The Penny Candy Store Beyond the El” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Their Lonely Betters” by W.H. Auden
“Girl in the Doorway” by Dorianne Laux