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A National Poetry Month Collection
April is National Poetry Month, an annual celebration established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to commemorate the impact and importance of poetry. Poems serve as a succinct medium for authors to convey complex ideas, emotions, and histories. Hopkins Press publishes many journals that offer a wide range of poetry by a diverse group of authors. The curated list below is just a small sample of a few poignant poems recently published in Hopkins Press journals, and in celebration of National Poetry month, have been made freely available through the month of April.
Matryoshka
Michael Mlekoday
Sewanee Review
Volume 130, Number 1, Winter 2022
For the 95 Bodies Found on the Imperial Sugar Plantation
Jason McCall
Mississippi Quarterly
Volume 74, Number 1, 2021
Cows. They Have Stupid Eyes, Friend So Dear
Marianne Boruch
The Yale Review
Volume 109, Number 2, Summer 2021
Summer Solstice Sonnet During the Pandemic, and: Winter Solstice Sonnet During the Pandemic
Craig Santos Perez
The Hopkins Review
Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2021
Lessons to the Underprivileged
Mervyn R. Seivwright
African American Review
Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 2021
Gallery Visit: A Diptych
Bonnie Thurston
Christianity & Literature
Volume 70, Number 2, June 2021
What Death Really Means
D.M. Aderibigbe
Callaloo
Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2018
Free Jazz; Everything inside of me is screaming; and Umbra
Asia Johnson
Feminist Formations
Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 2021
Let’s Very Often Say
Millicent Borges Accardi
Wallace Stevens Journal
Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2022
Wordsworth’s Storms
Christopher Ohge
Leviathan
Volume 23, Number 2, June 2021
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