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National Poetry Month April 3, 2020 Candice Kelsey Megxit for Meghan Markle This poem is the press This line the Daily Mail This caesura – your father These letters your letter This stanza breaks Like the shutter Of a super telephoto lens And this alliteration Is afterthought arising Around Archie […]
National Poetry Month April 2, 2020 Liz Jorgensen My High School Students They look like sweatpants and sleep. They smell like gym, like Axe and dew. They taste of rebellion and sound of gossip and heartache. Yet when they graduate, they feel like people—like purpose, like pride. My High School Students appeared in […]
National Poetry Month April 1, 2020 Gail Tyson Darning the Wounded Tongue Half-dog, half-camel, with bottomless eyes, the creature kneels beside me like a sphinx. Erect, tall in a Queen Anne chair, I gaze ahead. Neither of us makes a sound. The creature kneels beside me in a pale room, silvery light casting […]
It’s closing in on that time again. National Poetry Month. Are you prepared? Lots of folks use the month to generate new work, doing the Poem A Day thing. There are prompts galore out there for those who want to give writing a poem every day a try. Sometimes you need a little bit more […]