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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
Poetry Break

from “MAGA Hat in the Chemo Room”

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by Andrea Gibson

My politics aren't my politics.
My politics are my soul
and I'm not going anywhere
without my soul.
And that guy's politics aren't his soul.
I don't think souls have
machine gun collections.

It’s not surprise that Andrea Gibson is one of my favorite poets. While I had already used one of their poems for this list, I couldn’t ignore this one. You can listen to the poem in full here.

Poetry Break

National Poetry Month 2023

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We’re doing something a little different for National Poetry Month. I noticed a lot of my pervious poetry posts become outdated when a YouTube video either gets removed or goes private. This year, I decided to make use of my Canva subscription to create pretty pictures with the poems embedded in them. This will also make it easier to share on sites like Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, etc.

  1. “For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to be My Friend” by Pat Parker
  2. “Wellness Check” by Andrea Gibson
  3. “Why Bother?” by Sean Thomas Dougherty
  4. “After the Meal” by Bert Meyers
  5. “DM Pretty” by Tank and the Bangas
  6. “The Type” by Sarah Kay
  7. “Gentrification” by Junious “Jay” Ward
  8. “Anxiety: A Ghost Story” by Brenna Twohy
  9. “MAGA Hat in the Chemo Room” by Andrea Gibson
  10. “Self-Preservation” by Chiagoziem Jideofor
  11. “Baby’s First Intersex Birthday” by Matt Mitchell
  12. “Lunch” by Sienna Meadow Burnett
  13. “Affirmation #______” by Ebony Stewart
  14. “Alzheimer’s” by William J. Harris
  15. “Breaking the Link” by Doc Luben
  16. “Turning Forty” by Jonathan Galassi
  17. “A message to you all” by Cassie Workman (TikTok: @ghostcassie)
  18. “Coupons” by José Antonio Rodríguez
  19. “Anxiety” by A. R. Ammons
  20. “If William Carlos Williams Could Even” by César Leonardo de León
  21. “Exit Routes” by Emmy Perez
  22. “Mirrors at 4 a.m.” by Charles Simic
  23. “Prey and Predator” by Jan Seale
  24. “Hermano,” by ire’ne lara silva
  25. “Mi Revolución” by René Saldaña, Jr.
  26. “Hazy Lazy Crazy” by by Veronica Sandoval (a.k.a. Lady Mariposa)
  27. “Back to School Shopping” by Kate Baer
  28. “anti poetica” by Danez Smith
  29. “The Dog You Feed” by Emma Bolden
  30. “Whatever Happened to the Coffee Love Guy?” by Guillermo Corona
Poetry Break

“Orlando” by Andrea Gibson

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I don’t want to talk about Uvalde. I don’t want to talk about the thwarted Patriot Front riot. There are half-written, angry-sad posts talking about Uvalde in my drafts. And none of them will see the light of day. Because it’s no my tragedy to talk about. It’s not my story to share.

It’s difficult to talk about it without bringing up what I was doing that day. And how the news gnawed at the back of my head.

Instead, I leave you with Andrea Gibson’s poem, “Orlando.”