Every year, The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month by running new poems from poets we admire. We feature a different poet each day, and aim to illustrate the variety in voices and styles of poetry being written today. New poems will appear every morning at 9 a.m. PT, and we’ll post links to them on our Facebook pages and Twitter feeds (@The_Rumpus and @RumpusPoetry). We hope you’ll check back each day for new poems. We’ll kick off tomorrow with two poems from Cynthia Cruz. See you then!
The Rumpus National Poetry Month Project
Brian Spears
Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.