Poem of the Month / The PACK Admires

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 30/30—Brooks.
from To the Diaspora To Prisoners I call for your cultivation of strength in the dark. …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 29/30—Clifton.
miss rosie when I watch you wrapped up like garbage sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 28/30—Kane.
Epithalamia Butane, propane and lungful of diesel. I did not stand a chance. Always with poison breath, bill, responsibility: …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 27/30—Stetzer.
The Nothing At thirty minutes before it comes, the black sky goes indigo, leafless trees like cracks, fractals, shadowy …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 26/30—Wolahan.
Naked Woman, Her Repose A quiet, doleful state between two stages of sleep. Pooling skin purple and yellow, mottled. …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 25/30—Spece.
Cat on the Wall Zookeeper, listen: invisibility is a strange success & not mine. de profundis it sings …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 24/30—O’Hara.
Thinking of James Dean Like a nickelodeon soaring over the island from sea to bay, two pots of gold, …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 23/30—Niedecker.
from Paean to Place River rising—flood Now melt and leave home Return—broom wet naturally wet Under soak-heavy rug water …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 22/30—[Anonymous fragments]
[‘Over a period of thirty years (1910-1940), a series of Chinese immigrants passing through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 21/30—Riding.
from Elegy in a Spider’s Web The genii who cannot cease to know What to say when the spider …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 20/30—Middour.
Shedding The dream was worn. She had shown too much of herself— prone in fluorescent light. How will she …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 19/30—Lee
Secret Life Alone with time, he waits for his parents to wake, a boy growing old at the dining …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 18/30—Goode.
from The Many I never told you: one storm I stood on the roof at 113th St. & …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 17/30—Jordan.
July 4, 1974 At least it helps me to think about my son a Leo/born to us (Aries and …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 16/30—H.D.
from To Bryher [6] In me (the worm) clearly is no righteousness, but this— persistence; I escaped spider-snare, bird-claw, …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 15/30—Sands.
There’s No Place Like Rain claimed the day, and I crept to the lake, where typewriter patter fizzed …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 14/30—Arenas.
As Long as the Sky Whirls For Lázaro Gómez As long as the sky whirls You will be my …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 13/30—Kim.
[Exordium: ‘In what way names’] In what way names were applied to things. Filtration. Not every word that has …