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National Poetry Month: Hayan Charara

  • Hayan Charara
  • April 11, 2025
And the numbers—the numbers / I see every morning—not birds / but people! people!—
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National Poetry Month: Patrick Rosal

  • Patrick Rosal
  • April 10, 2025
I am listening to the gone / I am listening to the going / even when not / speaking or singing 
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National Poetry Month: Catherine Bowman

  • Catherine Bowman
  • April 9, 2025
Our table / more unearthed / than built by an ox / of an earthy man // that speaks in a dialect
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The First Book: Sam Ashworth

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • April 9, 2025
The human body is the most miraculous machine, and each of us gets one—just one.
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National Poetry Month: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

  • Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
  • April 8, 2025
Have you dressed for the mirror today Have you draped the darkening glass in gauze
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Past is Prelude: Denne Michele Norris’s When The Harvest Comes

  • Kelsey L. Smoot
  • April 8, 2025
Norris’s ability to create interlocking portraits of flawed but somehow still lovable characters is one of her masterful offerings.
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National Poetry Month: Kieron Walquist

  • Kieron Walquist
  • April 7, 2025
I never thought I’d live to see / us out of the house, on our own.
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Imagining is an Act of Love: A Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong

  • Katie Coleman
  • April 7, 2025
...no human being is explicitly good or explicitly bad, and asking a character to be relatable all of the time negates the possibility of their being a fully realized human.
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National Poetry Month: Hua Xi

  • Hua Xi
  • April 4, 2025
No matter how long, / I have more of myself to lose. 
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National Poetry Month: Sadie Dupuis

  • Sadie Dupuis
  • April 3, 2025
I did this. Took my own photo, / painted over my eyes, listened / closer.
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Fragments

  • Jenni Belotserkovsky and Sarah Yahm
  • April 3, 2025
She wanted to lie in the desert and feel the hot moist tongue of the jackal on her spine.
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National Poetry Month: Roger Reeves

  • Roger Reeves
  • April 2, 2025
Listen—the owl again in the branches above us / Giving up his position despite the war.
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