April is National Poetry Month! Because poetry matters, we take a Sunday about once a year to create a ritual in poetry. Members of the Congregation will read poems.

Below is a list of what poems were read at the service.

• “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins – read by Mattie Whitehouse
• “Warning” by Jenny Joseph – read by Lisa Baker
• “Sometimes” by Sheenagh Pugh – read by Barbara Graham
• “Sunday Service” read and written by Shaun Phoenix
• “The Seven of Pentacles” by Marge Piercy – read by Lorca Smetana
• “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins – read by Peg Wherry
• “Old Age Dreams” and “The Light at the End of the Tunnel” read and written by JoAnne Salisbury Troxel
• “People My Age” by John Gorka – read by Lisa Trankley
• “Untitled” by Laura Jean Truman – read by Cami Armijo-Grover
• “Throw me a Line” by Carrie Newcomer – read by Kim Hoffman
• “Sick” by Shel Silverstein – read by Lucy
• “Stepping Out” and “Dirty Dancing with ‘Eli'” read and written by Nan Gregersen
• “Untitled” by Vera Carucci – read by Larry Carucci
• “Heart of a Dancer” by Ilana Maifeld-Carucci – read by Mary Maifeld
• “Prairie Wedding” by Anne Moore Knipfer – read by Warren Knipfer