Poetry Month Schedule

4/4 – essay – “A Watershed Moment” by Rita Mae Reese

4/4 – poems – “Finale” and “The Whiteness of the Whale” by Rita Mae Reese

4/5 – poem – “Time In Time Out” by Bruce Dethlefsen

4/7 – Editors’ Choice for first week of April

4/10 – essay – “Leaning Toward an Other Light” by Kimberly Blaeser

4/10 – poem – “These Small Turns of Memory” by Kimberly Blaeser

4/11 – essay – “A Poet’s Place” by Abayomi Animashaun

4/11 – poem – “Those Sore of Soul” by Abayomi Animashaun

4/12 – essay – “Birds of a Feather: Community Memory” by Karla Huston

4/12 – poem – “Princess Slippers” by Karla Huston

4/14 – Editors’ Choice for the second week of April

4/17 – essay – “Poems, Questions, and Banana Pancakes” by Sarah Sadie

4/17 – poem – “Say Yes” by Sarah Sadie

4/18 – essay – “Amplifying Each Other’s Voice: Bruce Bennett and C. Kubasta Talk Teaching”

4/18 – poems – “Intrepid” and “A Blessing” by Bruce Bennett

4/18 – poem – “Arrangements” by C. Kubasta

4/19 – essay – “Give This Poor Subject a Verb” by Mike Smith

4/19 – poems – “San Antonio” and “Leaving Asheville” by Mike Smith

4/24 – essay – “Manifesting Mary” by Carson Jordan

4/24 – poem – “On fearing fear itself” by Carson Jordan

4/25 – essay – “Explaining Myself” by Sylvia Bowersox

4/25 – poems – “Processing,” “Winning Hearts and Minds,” and “The Homeless Woman” by Sylvia Bowersox

4/26 – essay – “Poetic Magic: Learning and Loss” by Christine Brandel

4/26 – poems – “The Day I Became Golden,” “For Michael and James,” and “His Arrows” by Christine Brandel

4/27 – essay – “Room for All of Us” by Annette Grunseth

4/27 – poem – “Sharing Clothes with My New Daughter” by Annette Grunseth

5/2 – Poetry Month Contest Winner Announced: “self-portrait as joan of arc” by Sabine Holzman