April is National Poetry Month, so this service will be our Ritual to Read to Each Other, in which participants (including children) are invited to bring a short poem to share with the congregation as this week’s sermon. If we want a theme, this will be Easter Sunday and just a couple of days before Earth Day. But other topics are also welcome. Below is a list of the poems read at this service.

• “What Will We Do?” by Nan Gregersen – read by Neil Gregersen
• “Little White Church in Gateway” by Fred Clark Roberts – read by Janine Roberts
• “o sweet spontaneous” by e.e. cummings – read by Peg Wherry
•  “Ladder” by Phyllis Cole-Dai – read by Barbara Graham
• “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop – read by Joy LaClaire
• “Tired” by Langston Hughes – read by Mattie Whitehouse
• “Magic Carpet” by Shel Silverstein – read by Susan Anderegg
• “Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon – read by Adele Pittendrigh
• “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life” by Dawna Markova – read by Carolyn Widman
• “Mother Earth 2025” by Laurence M. Carucci
• “Do not Stand by My Grave and Weep” by Mary Elizabeth Frye – read by Darla Timmons
• “There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk” by Portia Nelson – read by Rachel Rockafellow
• “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo – read by Sandy Kindt
• “The Joke” by Brandi Carlile – read by Lisa Joslyn
• “An Old Blessing” – read by Jason Fenmore
• “Jesus at the Gay Bar” by Jared Hulme – read by Nora Howard