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 This is the fifth time in a row we’ve celebrated April with a previously unpublished poem a day.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
April 6: “Swim Lesson No. 3” by Wendy Willis
April 7: “Cafe Space” by James Hoch
April 8: “The American Dream Visits While I Clean” by Julie Brooks Barbour
April 9: “Stone Cold Jane” by Cornelius Eady
April 10: “Seven Confessions: A Chapbook” by Julie Sheehan
April 11: “Billy Divine” by Adam McGovern
April 12: “Feast Day” by Rita Mae Reese
April 13: “Ghosts” by Brachah Goykadosh
April 14: “Sober Lullaby” by Matthew Henriksen
April 15: “The Plagiarist” by Nicky Beer
April 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
April 17: “Brandon Bryant: MQ1 Predator Sensor Operator” by Jill McDonough
April 18: “b my apocalypse” by Laura Zaylea
April 19: “The Sturdiness” by Sina Queyras
April 20: “Ruminations on cud from five of my fullest stomachs” by Matt Mauch
April 21: “Letters from Saint Francis” by Joshua Heineman
April 22: “Detonator” by Joyelle McSweeney
April 23:“Postcard to Regret” by Sean Hill
April 24: “Brother” by Melissa Broder
April 25: “Inner Flamingo” by Sandra Beasley
April 26: “but she wasn’t from my south” by Randall Horton
April 27: “Aubade With Mosquito Bites” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
April 28: “Telephone Pole” by Hadara Bar-Nadav
April 29: “The Qiana Shirt by Emilio Pucci” by Qiana Towns
April 30: “The Museum of Flight” by Kazim Ali
April 31: “loose strife” by Amy Quan Barry
April 32: “Some Philosophies of Orbit” by Wesley Rothman
April 33: “__________studio practice with italicized Michael Ondaatje quote” by Khadijah Queen
April 34: “Newborn” by Deborah Ager
