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Saturday, April 20, 2019

30 Great Poems for April, Day 20: “Emergency Haying” by Hayden Carruth

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Read “Emergency Haying” on the Poetry Foundation site here. This is one of my all-time favorite poems, easily in the top 10. Maybe the to...
Friday, April 19, 2019

30 Great Poems for April, Day 19: “Mermaids” by Angela Howe Decker

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Read “Mermaids” on Sundress Publications’ online poetry series, The Wardrobe , here. Disclaimer: Angela Decker and I have known each ot...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

30 Great Poems for April, Day 18: “Invoking the Muse in Cell Block B” by Nancy Miller Gomez

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Read “Invoking the Muse in Cell Block B” in the literary journal Rattle here. This poem is from Nancy Miller Gomez’s chapbo...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

30 Great Poems for April, Day 17: “Mimesis” by Fady Joudah

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Read “Mimesis” on the Poetry Foundation site here. Oh, man, that last line. Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American physician who was born...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

30 Great Poems for April, Day 16: “Dead Horse” by Thomas Lux

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Read “Dead Horse” on the Academy of American Poets site here. I told you there would be more horses! And while a poem called “Dead Horse” ...
Monday, April 15, 2019

30 Great Poems for April, Day 15: “The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead” by Jane Hirshfield

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Read “The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead” in the literary journal Pangolin House here. This is my go-to funeral poem. That sounds crass, but re...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

30 Great Poems for April, Day 14: “Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the Others” by Ross Gay

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Read "Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African...