National Poetry Month Archives – Page 37 of 43

Poet of the Day – Toti O’Brien

Posted on April 24, 2020March 8, 2020 by Constance Brewer

National Poetry Month April 24, 2020 Toti O’Brien MIGRATION As you vanish, unchecked grasping frantically at denial (your trusted safety belt) trying to resist sinking noticing on a glimpse of consciousness you cannot tell your age or mine, or today’s date ‘then’ you say ‘we should say farewell. I might not recognize […]

Poet of the Day – Jacquelyn Shah

Posted on April 23, 2020March 8, 2020 by Constance Brewer

National Poetry Month April 23, 2020 Jacquelyn Shah LETTER FROM K ON A DRUNKEN RAFT Dear Charlie, I write to you from Flux, the sea of a sea- blue funk that flows through middle ages. I float like Quetzlcoatl on a raft of snakes and flaunt my malice and pique that rain on your […]

Poet of the Month – Elaine Wilburt

Posted on April 22, 2020March 8, 2020 by Constance Brewer

National Poetry Month April 22, 2020 Elaine Wilburt Nôtre Dame de Paris: Entr’acte As crimson rays melting to violet slip from bell tower to buttresses, a solo sax wails sobs laden with this dusk. Against a stone bridge, creamy and warm, echoes redouble like a round, fading layer on layer, harmonizing grief. […]

Poet of the Day – Joanne Kennedy Frazer

Posted on April 21, 2020March 8, 2020 by Constance Brewer

National Poetry Month April 21, 2020 Joanne Kennedy Frazer SANCTUARY The journeys are broadcast over and over into homes of the comfortable who feel summoned to witness families fleeing to illusory refuge. Trust in the crossing is framed in faces of the very young. Tiny mouths seek mothers’ milk, innocence drowns. […]