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Stick This in Your Pocket and Smoke It
April 15, 2008

Blistering Ange Mlinko on National Poetry Month:  "De rigueur jokes about T.S. Eliot's 'cruelest month' notwithstanding, the National Poetry Month FAQ web page explains why April was chosen for the honor: 'February is Black History Month and March is Women's History Month, so April seemed a logical choice.' Let's get this straight: logically, this would mean that poets are an oppressed group on a par with groups who have overcome the legal status of chattel. Needless to say, the ability of poets to interrogate their own earnest metaphors seems to have plunged in tandem with their prestige."

Can't imagine a better April essay than this.

As an alternative to the heavily-granted layers of hype, here are three amazing poems:

Miles Champion's "Colour in Huysmans"

Tracie Morris's "Chain Gang"

 Rodrigo Toscano's "Truax Inimical" (hear it here)

And happy showers ----> flowers. You know which ones I mean.

Posted by Michael Scharf on April 15, 2008 | Comments (0)