National Poetry Month Day 13: Rita Mae Reese
Another Funeral in WV –After Adrienne Rich Aunt Kay’s tigers were never in a tapestry and were really just some prescriptions and a tabby that she called Baby. Baby bit…
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National Poetry Month Day 12: Oliver Bendorf
For today’s installment, we’re pleased to offer three comic poems from Oliver Bendorf. Or perhaps it’s more correct to say they’re poem-comics. Enjoy!
National Poetry Month Day 11: Keetje Kuipers
Teaching Day Aubade This anxious spring, two of my students become lovers, and on Tuesday evenings I walk home after class
National Poetry Month Day 10: Amaud Johnson
Or Idolator: Another Epitaph for Nino your side chick has car trouble. she has a light bill with an open mouth. she eats finger sandwiches or fettuccini alfredo, and keeps…
National Poetry Month Day 9: Carrie Murphy
Beauty Work Today I wore jeans in the sweltering heat & sweat pooled in my crotch. There was a girl on the metro with eyeliner like Priscilla Presley
National Poetry Month Day 8: Michael Bazzett
How To Become An Effective Poet In 31 Days, Or Less
National Poetry Month Day 7: Kelly Davio
The Unreal Woman at the Grocery “What price bananas? Are you my Angel?” –Alan Ginsberg Her cart is mighty, for she piles it with the semblance of health: fruit that…
National Poetry Month Day 6: Wendy Chin-Tanner
AFTER LIKUNT DANIEL AILIN Sculpture by Kehinde Wiley, 2013
National Poetry Month Day 5: Tiffany Midge
Tweets as Assigned Text for a Native American Studies Course Selected Tweets of @TiffanyMidge
National Poetry Month Day 3: Adam McGovern
Perseid meteors, 2015 I went to dig for falling stars alone in a shadowed field
National Poetry Month Day 2: Paula Bohince
THE FLINT RIVER Like the Lethe, which says Forget, or the one in Egypt, a river will take into itself what is offered: run-offs, toxic