National Poetry Month Day 23: “While John Berryman Drives In His Orange Chevrolet Through A Minnesota Rainstorm To Lecture On Don Quixote, Sylvia Plath Paints The Beehives of Court Green” by Amy Newman
Welcome to The Rumpus’s National Poetry Month project. We’ll be running a new poem from a different poet each day for the month of April.
While John Berryman Drives In His Orange Chevrolet Through A Minnesota Rainstorm
To Lecture On Don Quixote, Sylvia Plath Paints The Beehives of Court Green
While John Berryman drives in his orange Chevrolet through a Minnesota rainstorm
to lecture on Don Quixote, Sylvia Plath paints the beehives of Court Green,
stroking one stern white coat after another on the hive,
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Amy Newman about her poetry collection Dear Editor.
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Amy Newman’s Dear Editor as the December selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club: