Poetry
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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!
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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
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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 an ice cube in her glass of white wine.
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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
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A Hole In the Light by Lucas Jacob
Mag Gabbert reviews Lucas Jacob’s A Hole In the Light today in Rumpus Poetry.
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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 shines in the overhead fluorescents
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Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1: Poetry That Moves Like a City Street
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 column this month—and we are all lucky for it. Enjoy…
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National Poetry Month Day 6: Wendy Chin-Tanner
AFTER LIKUNT DANIEL AILIN Sculpture by Kehinde Wiley, 2013
