19 |03 MARK STRAND The Buried Melancholy of the Poet from ALMOST INVISIBLE (Knopf, 2012)
20 |03 NORMA COLE Still Today from FATE NEWS (Omnidawn, 2018)
21|03 ROXANNA BENNETT Intake Questionnaire from UNMEANINGABLE (Gordon Hill Press, 2019) Take 2
22|03 CARL PHILLIPS Overheard, Under A Dark Enchantment from PALE COLORS IN A TALL FIELD (FSG, 2020)
23|03 FRANZ WRIGHT Leave Me Hidden from F (Knopf, 2013)
24|03 NOLAN NATASHA I miss you from I CAN HEAR YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME? (Invisible, 2019)
25|03 MARGE PIERCY Ne’ilah from THE CROOKED INHERITANCE (Knopf, 2006)
26|03 JOHN GIORNO Stretching It Wider (1982) from YOU GOT TO BURN TO SHINE (High Risk, 1994)
27|03 HOA NGUYEN ps: from VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS (Wave, 2016)
28|03 CHAD BENNETT Where Your Body Is Is a Very Precious Place from YOUR NEW FEELING IS THE ARTIFACT OF A BYGONE ERA (Sarabande, 2019)
29|03 RAINER MARIA RILKE Archaic Torso of Apollo (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
30|03 THOM GUNN The Hug from THE MAN WITH NIGHT SWEATS (Faber, 2010)
31|03 ESSEX HEMPHILL Black Beans from CEREMONIES (Plume, 1992)
01|04 LUCAS CRAWFORD Separation from BELATED BRIS OF THE BRAINSICK (Nightwood Editions, 2019)
02|04 DENNIS COOPER Jeff, After a Long Time from IDOLS (The Sea Horse Press, 1979)
03|04 ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS What It Means to Be Avant Garde (for David Antin) p.31 from THEY AND WE WILL GET INTO TROUBLE FOR THIS (@Coffee_House_ 2016)
04|04 JAMES BALDWIN 3.00 a.m. (for David) from JIMMY’S BLUES (St. Martin’s, 1985)
05|04 JAMES SCHUYLER The Morning of the Poem p.268-9 from COLLECTED POEMS (New York : Farrah, 1993)
06|04 PAOLA FERRANTE Let’s Talk from WHAT TO WEAR WHEN SURVIVING A LION ATTACK (Mansfield Press, 2019)
07|04 RICHARD SCOTT love version of from SOHO (Faber, 2018)
08|04 SAPPHO Translated by Anne Carson from IF NOT, WINTER (Random House, 2002)
09|04 JOSHUA ESCOBAR aka DJ ASHTRAE from xxox fn (Doublecross Press, 2019)
10|04 CP CAVAFY Hidden Translated by Evan P Jones from THE DRAWING, THE SHIP, THE AFTERNOON (Anstruther Press, 2018)
11|04 JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI Salutations from the Storm from JUNEBAT (Anansi, 2020)
12|04 HENRI COLE Sacrament from THE LOOK OF THINGS (Knopf, 1994)
13|04 SAMUEL BECKETT from THE COLLECTED POEMS (Grove, 2012) p.91
14/04 MICHAEL CAVUTO Corpse from COUNTRY POEMS (@knifeforkbook, 2020)
15|04 RENE RICARD So it’s an anniversary from 1979-1980 (Editions Lutanie, 2018)
16|04 MOEZ SURANI Best Decisions Of My Life So Far from ARE THE RIVERS IN YOUR POEMS REAL (Book*hug, 2019)
17|04 R. KOLEWE Before from INSPECTING NOSTALGIA (Talonbooks, 2017)
18|04 DORIANNE LAUX The Garden from AWAKE (BOA Editions, 1990)
19|04 TOM PRIME + GARY BARWIN Tin Can Telephone from A CEMETERY FOR HOLES (Gordon Hill Press, 2019)
20|04 KLARA DU PLESSIS excerpt from Someone other than else from EKKE (Palimpsest Press, 2018)
21|04 CACONRAD from WHILE STANDING IN LINE FOR DEATH (Wave, 2017) p.48
22|04 KIRBY TIWIGO BOOK BIRTHDAY IG LIVE w/KATHRYN MOCKLER
23|04 DALE SMITH from SONS (knife | fork | book, 2017)
24|04 ANNICK MACASKILL Monday from MURMURATIONS (Gaspereau Press, 2020)
25|04 TANIS MACDONALD Living Will from MINOLA REVIEW
26|04 ALICE BURDICK Distraction poem from BOOK OF SHORT SENTENCES (Mansfield Press, 2016)
27|04 JIM JOHNSTONE Performance Anxiety from POETRY Magazine June 2019
28|04 SUE GOYETTE from THE BRIEF REINCARNATION OF A GIRL (Gaspereau Press, 2015) p.61
29|04 A. F. MORITZ Names of Birds from AS FAR AS YOU KNOW (Anansi, 2020)
30|04 JOHN NYMAN I am from THE DEVIL (knife | fork | book, 2020)
01|05 SHANNON BRAMER The Cold Feel of the Forks and Knives from PRECIOUS ENERGY (BookThug, 2017)
02|05 CANISIA LUBRIN Dream #29 from THE DYZGRAPHSXT (M&S, 2020)
03|05 JAMES MERRILL Last Words from SELECTED POEMS 1946-1985 (@AAKnopf 1992)
04|05 RICHARD SIKEN You Are Jeff [24] from CRUSH (YaleUP, 2005)
05|05 MATTHEW WALSH Princess of Power from THESE ARE NOT THE POTATOES OF MY YOUTH (Icehouse, 2019)
06|05 ANNE MICHAELS Flowers from THE WEIGHT OF ORANGES (McClelland, 1986)
07|05 ROBERT CREELEY I Know a Man from SELECTED POEMS (Univ California Press, 1991)
08|05 MATHEW HENDERSON Sex People from ROGUELIKE (Anansi, 2020)
09/05 DAVID TRINIDAD The Boy from THE BADBOY BOOK OF EROTIC POETRY (Badboy, 1995)
10/05 JOHN WIENERS My Mother from SUPPLICATION (Wave, 2015)
11/05 DAVID LY Plainly from MYTHICAL MAN (Palimpsest/Anstruther, 2020)
12/05 TIM DLUGOS Radiant Child from POWERLESS (Serpent’s Tail, 1996)
13/05 TANJA BARTEL Oxygen from EVERYONE AT THIS PARTY (Icehouse, 2020)
14/05 HAROLD PINTER Democracy from WAR (Faber, 2003)
15/05 ANDY VERBOOM Rise of the Double-headed Dildo from DBL (knife fork book, 2020)
16/05 KIRBY Boys on Gadgets from WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE CALLED? (Anstruther Press, 2020)
17/05 ADRIENNE RICH What Kind of Times Are These from COLLECTED POEMS 1950-2012 (Norton, 2016)
18/05 SIMINA BANU Paired with Merlot from POP (Coach House, 2020)
19/05 ETEL ADNAN from TIME translated from the French by SARAH RIGGS (Nightboat, 2019 p.42)
20/05 BRIAN TEARE from HEADLANDS QUADRATS (Double Cross, 2018)
21/05 TOMMY PICO from NATURE POEM (Tin House, 2017 p.10)
22/05 BIANCA STONE Elegy with a Swear Word from THE MÖBIUS STRIP CLUB OF GRIEF (Tin House, 2018)
23/05 LORINE NIEDECKER from Letter from Paul from COLLECTED WORKS ed. Jenny Penberthy (UP California, 2002)
24/05 AUDRE LORDE Coping from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF (Norton, 1997)
25/05 FRANK STANFORD x 2 Riverlight + [untitled] from WHAT ABOUT THIS The Collected Poems of (Copper Canyon, 2015)
26/05 KIM FAHNER Afterwards from @The_Temz_Review
27/05 PAUL LEGAULT A Man Young and Old, 6. His Memories from THE TOWER (Coach House, 2020)
28/05 CHRIS BAILEY You Want To Write About Love from WHAT YOUR HANDS HAVE DONE (NightwoodEd 2018)
29/05 CHARLES SIMIC Listen
30/05 NOOR NAGA from WASHES, PRAYS (McClelland, 2020 p.29-30)
31/05 CATHERINE GRAHAM Oak from THE CELERY FOREST (Wolsak and Wynn, 2017)
01/06 AMIRI BARAKA Oklahoma Enters the Third World from SOS (Grove Press, 2014)
02/06 JAKE SKEETS In the Fields from EYES BOTTLE DARK WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FLOWERS (Milkweed Editions, 2019)
03/06 KATHRYN MOCKLER Are You Real? from SOME THEORIES w/David Poolman (Some Theories, 2017)
04/06 SARAH SGRO What I Mean Is Poem But I’m Sleepy from IF THE FUTURE IS A FETISH YesYes Books, 2019)
05/06 MARLON RIGGS Tongues Untied IV from BROTHER TO BROTHER: NEW WRITINGS BY BLACK GAY MEN Edited by ESSEX HEMPHILL (Alyson, 1991)
06/06 LUCILLE CLIFTON it was a dream from THE BOOK OF LIGHT (Copper Canyon, 1993)
07/06 SYLVIE BAUMGARTEL from SONG OF SONGS (Farrah, 2019 p.40-1)
08/06 MALCOLM TARIQ Power Bottom from HEED THE HOLLOW (Graywolf, 2019)
09/06 brandy ryan + KERRY MANDERS from AFTER PULSE (knife fork book, 2019)
10/06 JESSICA HIEMSTRA Haloes from THE HOLY NOTHING (Pedlar Press, 2016)
11/06 JULIE MARIE WADE When My Grandmother Learns I Am A Lesbian from WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT (@AMidsummerNight, 2014)
12/06 KIRBY reading LIVE from House Party Poetry Series 1
13/06 JOSHUA JENNIFER ESPINOZA The title poem from THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016)
14/06 GWENDOLYN BROOKS Of the Young Dead
15/06 KEVIN KILLIAN The Bird with the Crystal Plummage from ARGENTO SERIES (Krupskaya, 2001)
16/06 W. S. MERWIN Living with the News from GARDEN TIME (Copper Canyon, 2016)
17/06 ASHLEY HYND from as seen by the road from ENTROPY (Gap Riot, 2020)
18/06 M. TRAVIS LANE Stick from the current issue of The Walrus
19/06 DANEZ SMITH i didn’t like you when i met you from HOMIE (Graywolf, 2020)
20/06 ANNE CARSON from RED DOC> (McClelland & Stewart, 2013. p. 110)
21/06 RAYMOND CARVER Happiness
22/06 PHILLIP CRYMBLE Night Windows from NOT EVEN LAUGHTER (Salmon Poetry, 2015)
23/06 MICHAEL PRIOR Pastoral from BURNING PROVINCE (M&S, 2020)
24/06 SAMUEL STRATHMAN Saturday, April 13th 2019 (for Gerry) from IN FLOCKS OF THREE TO FIVE (@anstrutherpress, 2020)
25/06 CHRIS NEALON The Victorious Ones [3] from THE SHORE (@WavePoetry, 2020)
26/06 ALLEN GINSBERG Many Loves from COLLECTED POEMS 1947-1980 (Harper, 1984)
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