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Poetry Month
  • Poetry Month
    'Poetry Is Pure Research for the Human Project'
    April 27, 2017
    | Kim Stafford
    Poet Kim Stafford's response to trouble in the world.
  • Poetry Month
    'What Invites or Requires a Response'
    April 26, 2017
    | Robin Clarke
    Poet Robin Clarke reflects on the Standing Rock protests
  • Poetry Month
    Reflections on Poetry — and on Civic Poetry in Particular
    April 25, 2017
    | Jim Haba
    Poet Jim Haba rounds out our civic poetry month.
  • Poetry Month
    Note to the Addict Who Robbed Us on a Landscaping Job
    April 24, 2017
    | Kyle Dargan
    Civic poetry month curator Kyle Dargan in an online exclusive.
  • Poetry Month
    Kyle Dargan on Civic Poetry Month
    April 17, 2017
    | Kyle Dargan
    Though it may not be thought of as such lately, reading is very much an act of civic engagement — an indispensable one, as is listening. The poet introduces us to five new voices.
  • Poetry Month
    'If They Should Come for Us'
    April 17, 2017
    | Fatimah Asghar
    Poetry can show us things we didn't realize were true.
  • Poetry Month
    When My Daughter Wasn't Assaulted
    April 17, 2017
    | Amanda Johnston
    Poet Amanda Johnston relates a traumatic experience in verse.
  • Poetry Month
    Did It Ever Occur to You That Maybe You’re Falling in Love
    April 17, 2017
    | Ailish Hopper
    Poet Kyle Dargan talked with Ailish Hopper as part of our civic poetry month feature.
  • Poetry Month
    'Triptych'
    April 17, 2017
    | Reginald Dwayne Betts

    April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring examples of “civic” poetry from new and familiar voices. Throughout the month we’ll be discussing what it means to be civic through the art of words. Join us on Twitter at #civicpoetry.

  • Poetry Month
    [Somewhere in Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed
    April 17, 2017
    | Christopher Soto
    Poetry provides the constant opportunity to take a situation and cast it in a different light.


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