As if National Grilled Cheese Month wasn’t reason enough to celebrate, April is also National Poetry Month, an important literary event for those who love poems.

As someone whose always been passionate about the written word, I thought I’d celebrate National Poetry Month by sharing some delicious food poems about the joys of eating and making food.

(Looking for even more food poems? You can read more poetry about food here.)

As poet Mark Strand wrote in his poem, Eating Poetry:

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”

Enjoy!

Unrhymed Poetry About the Culinary Life:

• Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell

• Ghost Supper by David Wojahn

• The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove

• Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth by Elizabeth Alexander

• The Love Cook by Ron Padgett

• The Saint and the Crab by William Logan

• Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold

• Gourmet Love Poem by Max Reif

• Food by Brenda Hillman

• [Passing the Shop after School…] by Charles Reznikoff

• Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

• In the Middle of Dinner by Chris Abani

• A Display of Mackerel By Mark Doty

• A Bowl of Fruit by Robert VanderMolen

• Family Reunion by Maxine W. Kumin

• The Future by Neal Bowers

• Soup by Carl Sandburg

• Waiter in a California Vietnamese Restaurant by Clarence Major

• Cleaning a Fish By Dave Smith

• The Melon by Charles Simic

• Parkinson’s Disease by Galway Kinnell

• Appetite by Rynn Williams

• Homage to H & the Speedway Diner by Bernadette Mayer

• Bread by Kamau Brathwaite

• The Body by Marianne Boruch

• On Cooking a Symbol at 400 Degrees by Patty Seyburn

• McDonalds Is Impossible by Chelsea Martin

• The Gospel of Barbecue by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

• Four Sandwiches by Martín Espada

• First Coca-Cola by Rodney Jones

• I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves by Colleen J. McElroy

• On A Diet by William Matthews

• The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

• All Wet by Marie Ponsot

• Private Eye Lettuce by Richard Brautigan

Rhymed Poetry About the Culinary Life:

• Lines on the Mermaid Tavern by John Keats

• The Battle of the Bulge by Robert W. Service

• I Eat My Peas with Honey by Anonymous

• The Tummy Beast by Roald Dahl

• Breakfast by Mary Lamb

• Dinner In A Quick Lunch Room by Stephen Vincent Benet

• A Horse For Dinner by John McAdam

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