Poems for Women's History Month, Book Recommendation from Amie Whittemore, and more

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This year’s poster was designed by Bao Lu, a twelfth grader from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York and the winner of the 2021 National Poetry Month Poster Contest. Get your free copy of the poster!

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Amie Whittemore, Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Recommends 

“Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press, 2020) by Natalie Diaz unraveled me in all the best ways as one of my first pandemic reads. Diaz’s work is full of grit and grace as she explores the complexity of desire while also taking down white supremacy in every exquisite syllable.”

—Amie Whittemore, author of Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press, 2016), poet laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and 2020 Poets Laureate Fellow. 

Sasha Pimentel on Curating Poem-a-Day 

“The poetry I know speaks to, and works from, many languages and many histories, even as a poem is unfolding in a single present. So I really wanted to bring in poets who carry inside them a sense of place, and a sense of being, that’s larger than the ways we often name belonging. That means transnational writers. Writers who refute the boundaries that are often named upon us through geography, or through gender.”

—Sasha Pimentel, author of For Want of Water (Beacon Press, 2017), and Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for the month of March.