As we come to the end of National Poetry Month I wanted to share with you a few poems I read and absolutely loved this month. Do yourself a favor and read them.

This one is an old poem – published in April 2017. But I only just discovered it earlier this month and it’s worth sharing:

I try to say—
I am lonely.
I try to say—
I want to come home,
to Earth, to Ithaca.
That this
was all a mistake.

~ from Yellowshirt Elegy by Meghan Phillips, published by Barrelhouse

Another one that was published back in July but thanks to the powers of Twitter, I just discovered it this month:

An analogy:

Pac-Man fills his mouth with pellets: you fill

your house with wine, your head with songs.

~from Nine Ways in Which Pac-Man Speaks to the Human Condition by Katie Willingham, published by Paper Darts

And then this one, which is dated May 2019 but came out earlier this month, much to my happiness:

Because I’m tired of being angry
at the world, I take my son to the river
where we pick up rocks at the water’s edge—
both of us wrapped tight in Christmas
gifts, chest and arms warm
in this year’s already bitter weather.

~ from Skipping Stones by Marissa Glover, published by First Things

And last, but decidedly not least, is this fantastic poem, an homage to all the mansplainers out here:

This poem is for all the men
Who have sacrificed their time
To explain my research to me.

~ from I Got Told What to Call This Poem by My Male Colleague by Grace Krause, published by the Cardiff University blog