For National Poetry Month, we’re sharing some of our favorites we’ve published, new poetry from writers Eve L. Ewing and Danez Smith, and resources to inspire you this month!
from bluestockings:
+ Two Dinè Men At 8PM, by Amber McCrary
I, continue to drive
through mountains
and desert land
With my tired mother
sleeping in the
passenger seat
toward a night sky
that holds rain
and thunder
+ notes from cyborg class (i am not yr political myth), by Melanie Abeygunawardana
“the prof always says thank you after i speak, in order to cut me off. i stand for all identity. i feel it tip the scales. to be a body. to be a weight. to think—wouldn’t it be nice to be pure abstraction, sea foam, the air that moves after wingbeat? but i am merely this: an ugly set of vowels.”
elsewhere
+ “looking over the plums, one by one.” In “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store,” Chicagoan writer and scholar Eve L. Ewing imagines running into Emmett Till.
inspiration for you!
+ The Rumpus is publishing new, original poetry everyday. Their first feature is queer poet M’Bilia Meekers.
What poems inspire you? Share with us below, or send us a tweet @BluestockingsM
