So maybe you’re following our National Poetry Month project and you want to know who else is going to be featured. You’re following, right? I mean, sure you get the tweets from Rumpus Poetry and The Rumpus, and you regularly check the Rumpus and Rumpus Poetry Facebook pages, but what you really want, what you yearn for, is a link list of this month’s poems, updated daily.
I’ve got what you need.
I’ll update this list throughout the month (and a little ways into May, because that’s how we roll, poetically-speaking, around here). Enjoy!
April 1: “Drop It Like It’s Hottentot Venus” by Douglas Kearney
April 2: “At the Book Shrink” by Brenda Shaughnessy
April 3: “Cousins” by Jonterri Gadson
April 4: “The Last Meal of the Iceman” by T.R. Hummer
April 5: “Záhrada” by Fady Joudah
April 6: “The First Kiss” by Carmen Giménez Smith
April 7: “Do You?” by Sophie Klahr
April 8: “Ghosts Keep Us Moving, Stella Said, Think About a Field At Night, How You’re Always” by Christian Anton Gerard
April 9: “I May Have Made Something Up” by Jennifer Perrine
April 10: “The Strangers” by Jennifer Chang
April 11: “On Style” by Ruben Quesada
April 12: “Semi-Aubade” by Elisa Gabbert
April 13: “15 Minutes” by Eileen Myles
April 14: “between the wolf and the dog” by Davis McCombs
April 15: “Alternate Ending: My Grandmother as Gretel” by Kate Schmitt
April 16: “Big Legs on the Bus” by George Ducker
April 17: “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter [brushes with death]” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
April 18: “Skin Like Brick Dust” by Saeed Jones
April 19: “Mirror” by Rachel Richardson
April 20: “The Story Gets Away From Him” by Lewis Mundt
April 21: “Mnemosyne to the Poet” by Rebecca Dunham
April 22: “Terra Incognita” by David Roderick
April 24: “All is Love” by John Gallaher
April 25: “Letter To Be Wrapped Around a 12-inch Disc” by Jake Adam York
April 26: “14 Fragments/10 Muses [Re:Sonnet #38]” by Ana Božičević
April 27: “Barry Bonds on the Witness Stand” by Oscar Bermeo
April 28: “Nine Out of Ten Dentists Agree I Am Not an Octopus” by Gregory Sherl
April 29: “A Children’s Story” by Mary Biddinger
April 30: from “Sungone Noon” by Christian Wiman
April 31 (I know this is May 1, but play along): “Machine Song” by Bruce Snider
April 32: “Zoo” by Virginia Konchan
April 33: “Carpal Seeple” by Joyelle McSweeney
April 34: “Death is a Hysterical Dynasty” by Steve Kistulentz
April 35: “A Double Sestina on Happiness” by Cathy Hong
April 36: “The Lover’s Field Guide to Lesser Coinage” by Sandra Beasley
April 37: Two Lyrics from “Rondo” by Janet Holmes
April 38: “A Room in Cleopatra’s Palace” by Mary Jo Bang
