Poetry Group
Are you a poetry lover or are you interested in becoming a poetry lover? Join the AUUC Poetry Group to read, enjoy, and learn what poems are saying. You might want to share your own poetry too. This group is open to anyone with an interest in reading and understanding poetry.
We meet once a month on the 4nd Wednesday in the evening. At each meeting, we choose the next month’s poet and a volunteer to host.
Currently, discussions are on Zoom. Check This Week for details and contact us to learn more about or join the group. Visit the event calendar to find out about our next discussion.
Discussions: 2025
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| May 2025 | Selected Poems from Bright Poems for Dark Days: An anthology of hope |
| April 2025 | Billy Collins |
| March 2025 | William Wordsworth |
| February 2025 | Lord Byron |
| January 2025 | William Blake |
Discussions: 2024
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| December 2024 | W.H. Auden |
| October 2024 | Louise Glück |
| September 2024 | John Donne |
| June 2024 | Wallace Stevens |
| May 2024 | Share your favorite poems |
| March 2024 | Leonard Cohen |
| February 2024 | Love Poems |
| January 2024 | JRR Tolkien |
Discussions: 2023
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| December 2023 | Edna St Vincent Millay |
| October 2023 | Billy Collins |
| September 2023 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning |
| August 2023 | Jason Gray, Christopher Kondrich, Sarah Katz, Jona Colson |
| July 2023 | National Academy of Science’s ongoing exhibition “Poets for Science” |
| June 2023 | Korean Poetry |
| May 2023 | Haikus, Senryus, and the American Sentence |
| April 2023 | James Wright |
| March 2023 | Hilda Doolittle |
| February 2023 | Billy Collins |
| January 2023 | Ada Limón |
Past Discussions: 2022
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| December 2022 | Ada Limón |
| November 2022 | Share Your Poems & Your Favorites |
| October 2022 | Nicanor Parra |
| September 2022 | Xiuhua Yu |
| April 2022 | Robert Bly |
| March 2022 | Annie Dillard |
| February 2022 | Sylvia Plath |
| January 2022 | David Ignatow |
Past Discussions: 2021
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| November 2021 | Autumn Potpourri of Poetry |
| September 2021 | Narrative Poems |
| July 2021 | Classical Chinese Poetry |
| June 2021 | Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience |
| May 2021 | Herman Melville |
| April 2021 | Poems for that Special Occasion |
| March 2021 | Poems for that Special Occasion |
| January 2021 | Robert Burns |
Past Discussions: 2020
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| December 2020 | Jack Kerouac |
| November 2020 | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| October 2020 | Antonio Machado |
| September 2020 | Natasha Trethewey |
| August 2020 | Danez Smith |
| July 2020 | Walt Whitman |
| June 2020 | Vachel Lindsay |
| May 2020 | Wallace Stevens |
| April 2020 | Dar Williams |
| March 2020 | Sara Teasdale |
| February 2020 | Mary Oliver |
| January 2020 | Dylan Thomas |
Past Discussions: 2019
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| December 2019 | Fernando Pessoa |
| November 2019 | W.B. Yeats |
| October 2019 | Mark Strand |
| September 2019 | Van Morrison |
| August 2019 | First Nation Women Poets [continued] Karenne Wood |
| July 2019 | First Nation Women Poets Jo Harjo, Layli Long Soldier |
| June 2019 | Wendell Berry |
| May 2019 | Rubén Darío |
| April 2019 | William Yeats |
| March 2019 | Shel Silverstein |
| February 2019 | Rap Lyrics Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5, LL Cool J, Eric B. & Rakim, Queen Latifah, Common, Mos Def, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Roots, Ryan Macklemore & Ryan Lewis |
| January 2019 | Ogden Nash |
Past Discussions: 2018
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| November 2018 | “Poe-pourri” Everyone’s favorite Poe poem |
| September 2018 | Sarah Tisdale |
| August 2018 | Emily Dickenson |
| July 2018 | Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters Everyone chose several favorites to read at the meeting |
| June 2018 | ee cummings |
| May 2018 | Forough Farrokhzad |
| April 2018 | John O’Donohue |
| March 2018 | Seamus Heaney |
| February 2018 | Poetry Pot Luck Everyone brought their favorite poem |
| January 2018 | Gabriella Mistral |
Past Discussions: 2017
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| December 2017 | Poetry Pot Luck Everyone brought their favorite poem |
| November 2017 | Alfred Lord Tennison |
| October 2017 | Visit to George Mason Fall for the Book Festival |
| September 2017 | Pushkin |
| July 2017 | Tracy K. Smith |
| June 2017 | David Hinton’s translations of ancient Chinese poems by: T’ao Ch’ien, Wang An-Shih, Yang Wan-Li |
| May 2017 | Native American poets: Joseph Bruchac, Leslie Marmon Silko |
| April 2017 | Walt Whitman |
| March 2017 | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| February 2017 | Maya Angelou |
| January 2017 | Bob Dylan |
Past Discussions: 2016
| Date | Topics & Poets |
| December 2016 | Seamus Heaney |
| November 2016 | Emily Dickenson |
| October 2016 | Billy Collins |
| September 2016 | Langston Hughes |
| August 2016 | Maya Angelou |
| July 2016 | Rita Dove |
| June 2016 | Rumi |
| May 2016 | Robert Frost |
| April 2016 | Pablo Neruda |
| March 2016 | Mary Oliver |
| February 2016 | May Sarton |