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The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project 2013

By Rumpus Original Poems

May 5th, 2013

Welcome to the Rumpus National Poetry Month Project! This is the fifth time in a row we’ve celebrated April with a previously unpublished poem a day. We’ll update this post each day with a link to that day’s poem. Enjoy!

April 1: “To Find Stars In Another Language” by Elizabeth Bradfield

April 2: “To Mercury, In Retrograde” by Randall Mann

April 3: “To Biespiel From United Flight 1037″ by David Biespiel

April 4: “Sawed-Through Link” by Marilyn Nelson

April 5: “Tar Baby” by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

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National Poetry Month Day 34: “Newborn” by Deborah Ager

By Rumpus Original Poems

May 4th, 2013

This brings our 2013 National Poetry Month Project to a close. I’d like to thank all 34 poets who trusted us with their work and all the people who read, appreciated, and forwarded their work along on Facebook and Twitter, via email and word of mouth.

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National Poetry Month Day 33: “______________________ studio practice with italicized Michael Ondaatje quote” by Khadijah Queen

By Rumpus Original Poems

May 3rd, 2013

30 days hath Septemnber, April June and November, but National Poetry Month hath as many days as we want it to hath.

______________________ studio practice with italicized Michael Ondaatje quote

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National Poetry Month Day 32: “Some Philosophies of Orbit” by Wesley Rothman

By Rumpus Original Poems

May 2nd, 2013

Some Philosophies of Orbit

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National Poetry Month Day 31: “loose strife” by Quan Barry

By Rumpus Original Poems

May 1st, 2013

Here at The Rumpus, we’re never satisfied with the 30 days of National Poetry Month. We like to stretch it out a little.

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National Poetry Month Day 30: “The Museum of Flight” by Kazim Ali

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 30th, 2013

The Museum of Flight

All boys want to fall
Sent like sun-thunder westward

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National Poetry Month Day 29: “The Qiana Shirt, 1976, by Emilio Pucci” by Qiana Towns

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 29th, 2013

The Qiana Shirt, 1976, by Emilio Pucci

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National Poetry Month Day 27: “Aubade With Mosquito Bites” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 27th, 2013

Aubade With Mosquito Bites

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National Poetry Month Day 26: “but she wasn’t from my south” by Randall Horton

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 26th, 2013

But She Wasn’t From My South

i’ve been trying to recall nostalgia, how
      hidden within deep memory they call it
saudade, its origin portugal, no i’ve never been
      lost to a lover, sadly misled, discarded,

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National Poetry Month Day 25: “Inner Flamingo” by Sandra Beasley

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 25th, 2013

Inner Flamingo

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National Poetry Month Day 24: “Brother” by Melissa Broder

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 24th, 2013

Brother

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National Poetry Month Day 23: “Postcard to Regret” by Sean Hill

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 23rd, 2013

Postcard to Regret

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National Poetry Month Day 22: “Detonator” by Joyelle McSweeney

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 22nd, 2013

Detonator

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National Poetry Month Day 21: “Letters from Saint Francis” by Joshua Heineman

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 21st, 2013

Letters from Saint Francis

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National Poetry Month Day 20: “Ruminations on cud from five of my fullest stomachs” by Matt Mauch

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 20th, 2013

Ruminations on cud from five of my fullest stomachs

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National Poetry Month Day 19: “The Sturdiness” by Sina Queyras

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 19th, 2013

The Sturdiness

For a long time I was thinking that I had to do more.

The way a dancer looks away from the camera.

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National Poetry Month Day 18: “b my apocalypse” by Laura Zaylea

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 18th, 2013

b   m y   a p o c a l y p s e

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National Poetry Month Day 17: “Brandon Bryant: MQ-1 Predator Sensor Operator” by Jill McDonough

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 17th, 2013

Brandon Bryant: MQ-1 Predator Sensor Operator

He lives in Montana now. Talks to German magazines, plus
Canadian radio shows. He coaches soccer, still has to tell us

everything. How it works, how many screens. How many fly
one drone. Fourteen, and two.

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National Poetry Month Day 16: “Darth Vader, King Laios (Fill Out Their Applications as, Across the Lobby, Genghis Khan’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” Ringtone Plays): Fathers of the Year” by Douglas Kearney

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 16th, 2013

Darth Vader, King Laios (Fill Out Their Applications as, Across the Lobby, Genghis Khan’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” Ringtone Plays): Fathers of the Year

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National Poetry Month Day 15: “The Plagiarist” by Nicky Beer

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 15th, 2013

The Plagiarist

I only steal from the ones
you’ve never heard of,

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National Poetry Month Day 14: “Sober Lullaby” by Matthew Henriksen

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 14th, 2013

Sober Lullaby

Oak tree in time this story makes no recognition
A photo will not distance music caught in a wind
That entered the room where the child slept

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National Poetry Month Day 13: “Ghosts” by Brachah Goykadosh

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 13th, 2013

Ghosts

Ghosts who I loved wandering through the glass doors and the turnstiles
without seeing me walking swiftly behind them.

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National Poetry Month Day 12: “Feast Day” by Rita Mae Reese

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 12th, 2013

Feast Day

                for Flannery O’Connor

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National Poetry Month Day 11: “Billy Divine” by Adam McGovern

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 11th, 2013

Billy Divine

The American Primeval
is not the green garden we think we’ve lost
it’s stark white cloudless sky
above a cinder-gray shack

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National Poetry Month Day 10: “Seven Confessions: A Chapbook” by Julie Sheehan

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 10th, 2013

Seven Confessions: A Chapbook

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National Poetry Month Day 9: “Stone Cold Jane” by Cornelius Eady

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 9th, 2013

“Stone Cold Jane” is one of the tracks from Cornelius Eady’s new chapbook from Kattywompus Press, Book of Hooks. I say tracks because these are as much songs as poems. “Stone Cold Jane” appears with the kind permission of Kattywompus Press.

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National Poetry Month Day 8: “The American Dream Visits While I Clean” by Julie Brooks Barbour

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April 8th, 2013

The American Dream Visits While I Clean

It wasn’t part of me, only something I listened to,
like radio music or dialogue on the evening news.

I was cleaning the bathroom. I thought of nothing,
really, while I watched my hands move.

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National Poetry Month Day 7: “Cafe Space” by James Hoch

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 7th, 2013

Café Space

Here comes backwash from apocalypse
gamey as last night’s monastery potluck.
Did you have the goat bleating from the roof
of a floating house, its song as old as warning?

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National Poetry Month Day 6: “Swim Lesson No. 3″ by Wendy Willis

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 6th, 2013

Swim Lesson No. 3

Syracuse, New York
June 2012

I can’t find my bearings in this landlocked country,
riverless and briny. Not waterless exactly but curveless
and motionless, a chlorophyll kingdom. A viney

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National Poetry Month Day 5: “Tar Baby” by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

By Rumpus Original Poems

April 5th, 2013

Tar Baby

Given that Tartarus stands undisputed
As the very bottom of Hell, where even
The bones of the damned are scattered
By Hector’s dogs and the Gorgons weep
Blood into its veined marble floor,
Then maybe our mascot is fitting.

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