The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Old Year by John Clare

Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye

This week's poems are all in celebration of the new year and New Year's Day holiday.  Happy New Year's to you all, and best wishes for a hopefully much improved 2021!

December 26 by Kenn Nesbitt.

In 1897, a girl named Virginia O'Hanlon sent a letter to the editor to the New York Sun asking them to confirm what some of her friends were saying, that there is no Santa Claus. The reply was published anonymously but was written by Francis Pharcellus Church, an editorial writer for the paper. The letter and its reply have been reprinted countless times, and inspired other works.

A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore.

Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court by James Arthur.

In the bleak midwinter by Christina Rossetti.

[little tree] by e. e. cummings.

A week of poems in celebration of Christmas (and perhaps of Boxing Day, if I can find a poem for it that I like). Merry Christmas or Happy Friday as appropriate!

Elijah vs. Santa by Richard Michelson

A Hanukkah Prayer for a Time of Darkness by Marla Baker

Letters Spoken in Wind by Rachel Galvin

Honorary Jew by John Repp.

Season of Skinny Candles by Marge Piercy.

The Miracle by Philip M. Raskin

All the poems this week are about Hanukkah, which started last Thursday and runs through this Friday. For those who celebrate, I hope you have a great holiday!

Ave Maria by Frank O'Hara.

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet by Cornelius Eady.

The James Bond Movie by May Swenson.

The Blue Angel by Alan Ginsberg

Video Blues by Mary Jo Salter

Silent Film by Kurt Brown

This week is a twist on last week's theme, with poems about going to the movies, making movies, the film industry, and so on. While I may not stick to this list, this set of poems compiled by the Poetry Foundation is a good place to start.