On November 25, 2009 at 10:07am Nigel Dookhoo wrote:
I absolutely love your list of poems, but I do find one element about the Thanksgiving meal absent. Where are the poems about wine? I do believe that Robert Herrick's poem, "The Welcome to Sack," would make an excellent addition to your list as an homage to that which brings much thanks at Thanksgiving; not to mention, that most traditional event of all family feasts, the cathartic release of grievance -"Purge hence the guilt and kill this quarrelling"; usually, at the dinner table, just before pie. "Call me the son of beer."

On November 25, 2009 at 10:23am katherine wrote:
Thank you for feeding our souls as well as our stomaches!

On November 25, 2009 at 10:53am Brooke wrote:
Wonderful....so thankful to read about Poetry Foundation in the LA times, I am currently in a poetry survey class and your site is perfect for our continued education.....I plan to read Keats at my Thanksgiving dinner this year....Thank you so much for sharing with the LA Times!!!!

On November 23, 2010 at 1:47pm Charlie wrote:
Next year I hope you'll make room for
Susan Kinsolving's wry reflection on the
day, "Fill the Cavity with Crumbs."

You can find it online on the NY Times site
(from 2003), but the formatting is
interrupted by ads. For a cleaner look, I'd
recommend the following:

http://womensvoicesforchange.org/voices-
in-verse-susan-kinsolving-3.htm

Among other virtues, the title is brilliant.

On November 23, 2010 at 3:51pm Neal Whitman wrote:
Agree with all: wonderful list. Might I add
our choice, read with pumpkin pie and a
spalsh of coffee in my Irish? Donald Hall's
"The Oxcart Man." It's wonder is the
allowance of all at the table to weigh in: Is
it a happy or sad story? Every reader, of
course, has the last word.

Amicus poeticae,
Neal Whitman