Saying farewell to another April of #poetry with my best beloved Ada Limón: "Look, we are not unspectacular things. / We’ve come this far, survived this much. / [...] What if we stood up with our synapses and flesh and said, No." april-is.tumblr.com/post/7823134...

The poet: "This poem articulates my belief that grief isn’t a dead thing; it’s very much alive and continues to shape how I grow and live in this world. This #poem says: healing is forever, another world is possible, and no nation will protect us, only we will.” april-is.tumblr.com/post/7822194...

This one knocked the breath right out of me. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7821222...

Did you know Louise Erdrich's sister is a poet, too? I didn't! Always a sucker for a good dog #poem. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7820208...

"God, let me keep what I love. / Peaches, cheap. Books, brilliant—" april-is.tumblr.com/post/7819051...

A juicy one for you tonight: rhyme and rhythm and that ending, phew. a remix for remembrance, Kristiana Rae Colón april-is.tumblr.com/post/7818559...

American Sonnet for the New Year, Terrance Hayes: "things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly / things got ugly embarrassingly quickly" april-is.tumblr.com/post/7817428...

Staircase I trip on the title, clumsy as I am, and topple down the first few (This one tickles me; I am tickled.) april-is.tumblr.com/post/7816631...

This stopped me in my tracks with how specific it feels to current events. But of course its point is just the opposite. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7815399...

There should be many more poems with Dunkin' Donuts in them. An Improvement in Stairs, Mairead Small Staid: april-is.tumblr.com/post/7814874...

#Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands: april-is.tumblr.com/post/7813730...

Maybe it's my age. Or my personal fixations on time and memory. But wow, this one packs a punch. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7812930... #poem #poetry

I want a president, Zoe Leonard - Amazing when something can be such an important snapshot of a moment in time -- 1992 -- and still feel desperately fresh and relevant. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7812010...

More poems about time machines, please. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7811199...

Reading this is such a journey. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7810256...

That ending tho'. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7809495...

Sorrows - "who would believe them winged / who would believe they could be / beautiful who would believe / they could fall so in love with mortals" Lucille Clifton, always [chef's kiss]. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7808438...

I love poems that capture the feeling of being a child, the complexity/simplicity of the child mind. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7807703...

Such tenderness in this one. Instead of Depression, Andrea Gibson: april-is.tumblr.com/post/7806791...

A somewhat sacrilegious catechism: Conversation with Mary, Gabrielle Bates april-is.tumblr.com/post/7805848...

Tin Bucket by Jenny George. One I want to keep rereading, to try to pick apart. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7804839... #nationalpoetrymonth #poetry

"An astronaut and a samurai fall in love. / They write each other / haiku and billet-doux / via time capsule." kami/kaze : a correspondence, Ng Yi-Sheng - april-is.tumblr.com/post/7803896...

With compliments from my daughter: What is White?, Mary O'Neill april-is.tumblr.com/post/7802923...

Somehow my first time sending Robert Bly. The second-to-last line lives rent free in my head. The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog: april-is.tumblr.com/post/7801794... #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #napomo

How I love this final couplet. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7800893...

Amazing how relevant a #poem written in the 1950s can feel. And how that fact makes the first/last line resonate. april-is.tumblr.com/post/7800401...

Friday's #poem: Becoming a Poet, Susan Browne - "I looked over my father’s shoulder / at the dark ocean of air, / at the colorful, iridescent fish." april-is.tumblr.com/post/7799184...

Kai Cheng Thom: On the Origin of #Trans Femmes "we are the daughters / of witches / that they could and did burn" #poem here: april-is.tumblr.com/post/7798575...

"When five separate dooms / are promised this decade" -- (The last 3 lines of this, though!) This Spring, James A. Pearson: april-is.tumblr.com/post/7797544...

Starting the month with a #poem that feels particularly apt: Bad New Government, Emily Berry - april-is.tumblr.com/post/7796509...

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