Day: April 1, 2024

Poetry Break

National Poetry Month 2024

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  1. “Substance Abuse Trial” by Jane Mead
  2. “How to Not Be a Perfectionist” by Molly Brodak
  3. “Tablets IV” by Dunya Mikhail
  4. “Lullaby for the Immigration Ocelot” by Amalia Ortiz
  5. “another plain truth” by Sabrina Benaim
  6. “Danger: New Man” by Pat Mora
  7. “Adjunct’s Pledge (a.k.a. Broken Treaty)” by Kamala Platt
  8. “The Postmodern Llorona” by Gloria Anzaldúa
  9. “& Nothing Happens” by Katana Smith
  10. “when the drought ended” by César Leonardo de León
  11. “When a Story is an Heirloom” by Priscilla Celina Suárez
  12. “Strange Gospels” by Cynthia Cruz
  13. “The Last Time that the World Ended” by PW Covington
  14. “Border Crossings” by Natalie D-Napoleon
  15. “What Sex Becomes” by Olivia Gatwood
  16. “Three Little Words” by Rossy Evelin Lima
  17. “All the Good Girls Go Missing” by Lauren Badillo Milicia
  18. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong
  19. Excerpt from Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
  20. “Ode to TERFs” by H. Melt
  21. “Unrest in Baton Rouge” by Tracy K. Smith
  22. “Awestruck [Verb]” by Andrea Gibson
  23. “they lie when they say grief lightens with time” by ire’ne lara silva
  24. “Refugee” by Ana M. Fores Tamayo
  25. “19.42” by Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
  26. “Love” by Assata Shakur
  27. “Borderbus” by Juan Felipe Herrera
  28. “For the two Utah congressmen who voted no because ‘there is a chance women will return to be hit a few more times in order to stay on welfare’” by Valarie Wallace
  29. “Three Urdu Poems” by Vijay Seshadri
  30. “Ugly” by Warsan Shire