Poetry Month Schedule

4/5 – poem – “When the body is a cage” by Julie Brooks Barbour

4/6 – poem – “You Have Reached Your Destination” by Sarah Sadie

4/7 – lyric essay – “Surveillance” by Gulnaz Saiyed

4/8 – poem – “The Raisin & the Bullet” by Rebecca Myers

4/9 – poems – Editors’ Choices for first week of April

4/11 – poem – “How I Will Do It” by Tracey Knapp

4/12 – poem – “Wrappers” by Cathryn Cofell

4/13 – essay – “Leave Your Indoor Voice Behind” by Michelle Gordon

4/13 – poem – “Stepmother en Filipinas, circa 1948″ by Victoria G. Smith

4/14 – poem – “the bull–the line–europa” by Wendy Vardaman

4/15 – poem – “Lullaby” by Kate Asche

4/16 – poem – Editors’ Choices for second week of April

4/18 – poem – “Ancient Astronaut” by Greg Allendorf

4/19 – poem – “Visionary” by Nicole Cooley

4/20 – poem – “Widow” by Sonya Vatomsky

4/21 – poem – “Monasteries” by Abayomi Animashaun

4/21 – essay – “I Know Why Anne Sexton Had to Die” by Jen Escher

4/22 – poem – “Constructing ‘a Plausible Protagonist'” by C. Kubasta

4/22 – spotlight – The Turf Chick: A Poetry Month Spotlight

4/25 – essay – “Mothering the Sexy” by Christie Perfetti Williams

4/25 – poem – “April in All Her Awful Beauty” by Elizabeth Berry

4/26 – poem – “Underfoot” by Caroline Goodwin

4/27 – essay – “Beats, Rhymes, and Spoken Word: Hip-Hop As A Poet’s Muse” by Latonya Pennington

4/23 – poem – Editors’ Choices for third week of April

4/28 – poem – “Then Became” by Cynthia Hogue

4/28 – essay – Ultralight Beam” by Yasin Mohamud

4/28 – roundtable – “Dread and Grief, Energy and Song: Cathryn Cofell and Nicole Cooley Discuss Alicia Rebecca Myers’s MY SEABORGIUM”

4/29 – poem – “Dixie Highway” by Nickole Brown

4/29 – roundtable – “Intimacy and Poetry: Roan Parrish and Liz Jacobs Discuss Greg Allendorf’s FAIR DAY IN AN ANCIENT TOWN”

5/3 – poem – Imani Davis’s “Grave Robber Digs with a Pen” selected as winner of the Poetry Month contest