In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Poetry Foundation has invited a group of twenty poets to contribute to their blog, Harriet, creating a compelling month-long conversation that is shaped and stimulated by the concerns of each individual poet. We are proud to announce that one of our own poets, EXIT, CIVILIAN author Idra Novey, will be participating in this conversation, which you can follow here. We also invite you to discover and rediscover some of our current and past poetry publications with our National Poetry Month Picks.
HUMMINGBIRD SLEEP
by Coleman Barks
"A mighty book. A rain dance between Plotinus and the grandeur of an Athens snowfall. Hummingbird Sleep is so good I have taken up residence in it. Barks is writing out where the buses don't park. This is his finest work yet: intimate, touched with grief, but with a great intensity of wonder. The whole affair carries a pirate's joy for life."
—Martin Shaw, author of A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness, winner of the Nautilus Book Award
TURN ME LOOSE: THE UNGHOSTING OF MEDGAR EVERS
by Frank X Walker
"Searing, brilliantly realized, these forty-nine poems exhume the history of a great American hero, Medgar Evers, whose 1963 death at the hands of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith lit a powder keg of racial unrest in the nation and ushered in a decade of political assassinations. With their deep links to African American poetic traditions of social commentary and historical excavation, Walker's poems summon ghosts of the southern past to probe the daily horror of dehumanization under the reign of Jim Crow and the terrifying psychological roots of white supremacism, past and present."—Minrose Gwin, author of Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement and The Queen of Palmyra
THE GAUGUIN ANSWER SHEET
By Dennis Finnell
ILLUSTRATING THE MACHINE THAT MAKES THE WORLD
By Joshua Poteat
LORD BRAIN
By Bruce Beasley
THE VIOLENCE OF THE MORNING
By Cal Bedient
ALLEGORY OF THE SUPERMARKET
By Stephanie Brown
AFTER I WAS DEAD
By Laura Mullen
APPROXIMATE DARLING
By Lee Upton
ACROSS THE LAYERS: POEMS OLD AND NEW
By Albert Goldbarth
BLACK NATURE
HUMMINGBIRD SLEEP
by Coleman Barks
"A mighty book. A rain dance between Plotinus and the grandeur of an Athens snowfall. Hummingbird Sleep is so good I have taken up residence in it. Barks is writing out where the buses don't park. This is his finest work yet: intimate, touched with grief, but with a great intensity of wonder. The whole affair carries a pirate's joy for life."
—Martin Shaw, author of A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness, winner of the Nautilus Book Award
TURN ME LOOSE: THE UNGHOSTING OF MEDGAR EVERS
by Frank X Walker
"Searing, brilliantly realized, these forty-nine poems exhume the history of a great American hero, Medgar Evers, whose 1963 death at the hands of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith lit a powder keg of racial unrest in the nation and ushered in a decade of political assassinations. With their deep links to African American poetic traditions of social commentary and historical excavation, Walker's poems summon ghosts of the southern past to probe the daily horror of dehumanization under the reign of Jim Crow and the terrifying psychological roots of white supremacism, past and present."—Minrose Gwin, author of Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement and The Queen of Palmyra
THE GAUGUIN ANSWER SHEET
By Dennis Finnell
ILLUSTRATING THE MACHINE THAT MAKES THE WORLD
By Joshua Poteat
LORD BRAIN
By Bruce Beasley
THE VIOLENCE OF THE MORNING
By Cal Bedient
ALLEGORY OF THE SUPERMARKET
By Stephanie Brown
AFTER I WAS DEAD
By Laura Mullen
APPROXIMATE DARLING
By Lee Upton
ACROSS THE LAYERS: POEMS OLD AND NEW
By Albert Goldbarth
BLACK NATURE
