National Poetry Month 2026

Tomorrow is the first day of National Poetry Month, y’all! I wasn’t sure if I would be able to keep up with my daily posts (these things are usually made in advance, but with class, personal life things, and work schedule changes, my time was limited). However, I hustled through the Internet, peeked under rocks, scroll through Facebook posts, and I found enough to do a rush job on Canva. I will schedule them soon so they will post automatically each day at 10AM Central (stupid) Daylight Saving Time.

30 Days, 30 Poems:

1. “If I were a white woman” by Shantasha Naomi Laing
2. “A Trick to Remember the Strings” by Anthony Alessandrini
3. “A Grief Reminder” by Edward Vidaurre
4. Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
5. “Some Melodious Plot” by Anthony Borruso
6. “Everything That I Will Ever Know” by Guillermo Corona
7. “You Know Me” by Valeria Ruiz
8. “I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies” by June Jordan
9. “What Is Good on January 8th, 2026?” by Kimiko Hahn
10. “As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With” by torrin a. greathouse
11. “How to Orchestrate A Genocide” by Raffie Joe Wartanian
12. “We Live We Live” by Brandy Nalani McDougall
13. “New American” by Huascar Meina
14. “Gesture with Both Hands Tied” by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
15. “For the Rapists Who Called Themselves Feminists” by Blythe Baird
16. “Taking Chances and Talking Freedom” by Emmanuel Fru Doh
17. “In Arabic, the Word for ‘War’ Is Similar to ‘Love’” by Sara Abou Rashed
18. “Mother” by Dorothea Lasky
19. “The Light that Puts an End to Dreams” by Susan Sherman
20. Poems for a Small Park by E.D. Blodgett
21. “Para mi family” by Isaac Chavarria
22. “Party Retreat” by Sheila Maldonado
23. “Geometry” by José Antonio Rodríguez
24. “Speaking River” by Rodney Gomez
25. “The Girl Who Opened the Door” by Katherine Hoerth