Today is the final day for this year’s National Poetry Month. It’s been an exciting time on Troublesome Creek, highlighted by a visit from Gurney Norman, a true Kentucky treasure. It is fitting that the New York Times ran an article today, announcing the most recent winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for 2008. Our hats are off to another tremendous writer, and one of Gurney’s compadres from the Beat era: Mr. Gary Snyder

Here’s a sample of the craft:

How Poetry Comes to Me

It comes blundering over the
Boulders at night, it stays
Frightened outside the
Range of my campfire
I go to meet it at the
Edge of the light

by Gary Snyder