It Happens Like This | A Poem by James Tate

April 7 - I'm reading and recording some of my favorite poems each day of April for National Poetry Month. Here's a poem for today:

“It Happens Like This” by James Tate via the Academy of America Poets website from his collection “Lost River.”

Additional info about this poem:

• James Tate on the Academy of American Poets website.

• This poem was commissioned by Mary Sharp Cronson and Works and Process, Inc.

• “James Tate and the Ironies of Life” by Leah Umansky.

• Composer Charles Wourinen discusses James Tate poems he set to music.