This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month , which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of the month. We make no claim (except when we do) that these poems are the “best” poems in any category; they are simply poems we love. The only other thing they all have in common is that they are available to read for free online, so you can enjoy them along with us. The internet is still good for some things, after all. Today we recommend: Tracy K. Smith’s “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” I find it difficult to select just one poem from Tracy K. Smith’s 2012 collection Life on Mars , her Pulitzer Prize-winning elegy to her father, who was one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.…