2026-09-21 National Rum Day

【Polo Ponies Practicing (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

           The constant cry against an old order,

           An order constantly old,

           Is itself old

2026-09-20 National Brunch Day

【The Drum-Majors in the Labor Day Parade (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            If each of them wasn't a prig

            And didn't care a fig,

2026-09-19 National Dance Day

【Hieroglyphica (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        People that live in the biggest houses

        Often have the worst breaths.

        Hey-di-ho.

       &n

2026-09-18 National Cheeseburger Day

【What They Call Red Cherry Pie (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Meyer is a bum. He eats his pie.

        He eats red cherry pie and never says—

        He makes no choice of words

2026-09-17 International Country Music Day

【The Woman Who Blamed Life on a Spaniard-III (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The choice twixt dove and goose is over-close.

        The fowl of Venus may consist of both

       &

2026-09-16 National Guacamole Day

【The Woman Who Blamed Life on a Spaniard-II (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        That tragic prattle of the fates, astute

        To bring destruction, often seems high-pitched

        Th

2026-09-15 Get Ready Day

【The Woman Who Blamed Life on a Spaniard-I (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        You do not understand her evil mood.

        You think that like the moon she is obscured

        But clears and cle

2026-09-14 National Sober Day

【Good Man, Bad Woman (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        You say that spite avails her nothing, that

        You rest intact in conscience and intact

        In self, a man of longer time th

2026-09-13 Supernatural Day

【Annual Gaiety (1930)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         In the morning in the blue snow

         The catholic sun, its majesty,

         Pinks and pinks the ice-hard melancholy.

&nbs

2026-09-12 National Video Games Day

【Metropolitan Melancholy (1928)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         A purple woman with a lavender tongue

         Said hic, said hac,

         Said ha.

2026-09-11 Bravehearts Day

【Red Loves Kit-III (1924)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Rest, crows, upon the edges of the moon,

        Cover the golden altar deepest black,

        Fly upward thick in numbers, fly across

&nbs

2026-09-10 R U OK? Day

【Red Loves Kit-II (1924)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        A beautiful thing, milord, is beautiful

        Not only in itself but in the things

        Around it. Thus it has a large expanse,

2026-09-09 National Teddy Bear Day

【Red Loves Kit-I (1924)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Your yes her no, your no her yes. The words

        Make little difference, for being wrong

        And wronging her, if only as she thin

2026-09-08 Star Trek Day

【The Shape of the Coroner (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            It was the morn

            And the palms were waved

            And

2026-09-07 National Beer Lovers Day

【Mandolin and Liqueurs (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        La-La! The cat is in the violets

        And the awnings are let down.

        The cat should not be where she is

2026-09-06 National Read a Book Day

【Histoire (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        For simple pleasure, he beheld,

        The rotting man for pleasure saw,

        The new spring tumble in the sky.

2026-09-06 National Cheese Pizza Day

【The Jack-Rabbit (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In the morning,

        The jack-rabbit sang to the Arkansaw.

        He carolled in caracoles

2026-09-04 National Lazy Mom Day

【This Vast Inelegance (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

This vast inelegance may seem the blankest desolation,

Beginning of a green Cockaigne to be, disliked, abandoned,

In which the bliss of clouds is mark of an intended meeting

Between the matin air and color, goldenest generating,

Soother and lustier than this

2026-09-03 National Skyscraper Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-VI | And Daughters with Curls (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        Crispin concocted doctrine from the rout.

        The world, a turnip once so

2026-09-02 World Coconut Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-VI | And Daughters with Curls (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        ……

        The chits came for his jigging, bluet-eyed,

        Hands without touch yet touching

2026-09-01 World Letter Writing Day

【The Comedian As The Letter C-VI | And Daughters with Curls (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Portentous enunciation, syllable

        To blessed syllable affined, and sound