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National Poetry Month Day 23: Valerie Wetlaufer

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  • April 23, 2016
Method The tea must be left on the counter, or she won’t remember where it is in the morning. There must be milk
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Dead Man’s Float by Jim Harrison

  • Denise K. James
  • April 22, 2016
Denise K James reviews Jim Harrison's Dead Man's Float today in Rumpus Poetry.
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National Poetry Month Day 22: Hayan Charara

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  • April 22, 2016
The Problem with Me (Beginning with Abu Ghraib) Is the Problem with You (Ending Where the Earth’s Surface Appears to Meet the Sky) A dog outside is barking loudly. Inside,…
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National Poetry Month Day 21: Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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  • April 21, 2016
Four Long Years At Court I really miss the forest. And how I used to hide there with the Queen. I miss how we used to dance and how we’d…
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #3: Poetry That Asks You to Sit and Sort This Whole Thing Out

  • Jen Fitzgerald
  • April 20, 2016
I’m spending National Poetry Month at the Millay Colony, former home of Edna St. Vincent Millay. My colleague and friend, poet and writer Jen Fitzgerald, will be writing the Mixtape…
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National Poetry Month Day 20: Sarah Blake

  • Brian Spears
  • April 20, 2016
For Max Ok, so you know someone who died horrifically Ok, so you know an animal who died horrifically In a fire let’s say or a building’s collapse
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Green Migraine by Michael Dickman

  • Caitlin Mackenzie
  • April 20, 2016
Caitlin Mackenzie reviews Michael Dickman's Green Migraine today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Dugout

  • David Biespiel
  • April 19, 2016
So much of politics is symbolic speech in the service of the syncopations of the lives we actually live. But the ways we gather to vote is with our bodies. It’s the dance that goes along with those rhythms.
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National Poetry Month Day 19: Aziza Barnes

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  • April 19, 2016
Steeple Talk didn’t know what they were called those white poles jutting out of baptist rooves. they want you to know from a mile away that’s a church, go the…
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National Poetry Month Day 18: Tarfia Faizullah

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  • April 18, 2016
Flawless A kind of perfection, each singular flicker of fireflies left untrapped
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National Poetry Month Day 17: Ashaki Jackson

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  • April 17, 2016
A Deputy Chief Recommended Dismissal Long Ago
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National Poetry Month Day 16: Amanda Deutch

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  • April 16, 2016
Island Factory From water to water he worked he traveled by IND. I know little else about him. Sol worked at a pocketbook
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