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National Poetry Month Day 12: Oliver Bendorf

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  • April 12, 2016
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!
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National Poetry Month Day 11: Keetje Kuipers

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  • April 11, 2016
Teaching Day Aubade This anxious spring, two of my students become lovers, and on Tuesday evenings I walk home after class
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National Poetry Month Day 10: Amaud Johnson

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  • April 10, 2016
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…
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National Poetry Month Day 9: Carrie Murphy

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  • April 9, 2016
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
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National Poetry Month Day 8: Michael Bazzett

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  • April 8, 2016
How To Become An Effective Poet In 31 Days, Or Less
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National Poetry Month Day 7: Kelly Davio

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  • April 7, 2016
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…
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National Poetry Month Day 6: Wendy Chin-Tanner

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  • April 6, 2016
AFTER LIKUNT DANIEL AILIN Sculpture by Kehinde Wiley, 2013
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National Poetry Month Day 5: Tiffany Midge

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  • April 5, 2016
Tweets as Assigned Text for a Native American Studies Course Selected Tweets of @TiffanyMidge
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National Poetry Month Day 4: Jericho Brown

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  • April 4, 2016
The Time Traveler’s Wife Husband
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National Poetry Month Day 3: Adam McGovern

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  • April 3, 2016
Perseid meteors, 2015 I went to dig for falling stars alone in a shadowed field
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National Poetry Month Day 2: Paula Bohince

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  • April 2, 2016
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
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National Poetry Month Day 1: Cynthia Cruz

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  • April 1, 2016
GUIDEBOOKS FOR THE DEAD And the enchantment of children’s hospitals.
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