Women poets

#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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 13/30—Kim.

[Exordium: ‘In what way names’]   In what way names were applied to things. Filtration. Not every word that has …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 12/30—Bohince.

Brutally, the Robin   clutches the clear muscles of the ice- laden branches. Without a scrap, without a word he …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 10/30—Adams-Santos.

In a Night   Once a great bird tore me   lifted and took me   on a swift swerve …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 9/30—Shaughnessy.

Wrongbodied   Like this baby boy standing there on the corner, hand in jean pocket, lolly too like a cigarette; …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 8/30—Kwak.

from This Having Been Earthly Seems Lasting   I don’t believe in corpses. But I can’t apprise the corpse of …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 6/30—Clifton.

1994   i was leaving my fifty-eighth year when a thumb of ice stamped itself hard near my heart   …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 4/30—Swenson.

Blue   Blue, but you are Rose, too, and buttermilk, but with blood dots showing through. A little salty in …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 3/30—Cortez.

Do You Think   Do you think this is a sad day      a sad night full of tequila     full of el …

#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 2/30—Brossard.

from The Temptation   i succumbed to the fury, the cities and the etchings/come/the conversation in snatches, in the open the …