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30/30: Cameron Awkward-Rich
Our final prompt this year comes to us from Cameron Awkward-Rich, and his iconic poem, "Meditations in an Emergency"...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 30, 20231 min read
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29/30: Kamden Hilliard
I am obsessed with the sonics of this poem. You so clearly see the musical influence, not just in the referential lines, but in how the...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 29, 20231 min read
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28/30: Miller Oberman
Today is a gorgeous reflective poem, "Taharah." https://poets.org/poem/taharah This piece deals with the idea of the afterlife, not in...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 28, 20231 min read
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27/30: Aldrin Valdez
It's ars poetica day! A staple of the 30/30, and we have a doozy for you: https://poets.org/poem/ars-poetica-7 I love how fully Aldrin...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 27, 20231 min read
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26/30: KB Brookins
Today's poem deftly moves through different levels of confession and culpability. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ccb069851f4d4eb...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 26, 20231 min read
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25/30: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Today's poem interacts with another text which I love for a 30/30, when it can start to feel like the well is drying up at this point....
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 25, 20231 min read
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24/30: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Today is the brilliant and ethereal "What is a human possibility?" https://ex-puritan.ca/human-possibility-belcourt-2019/?fbclid=IwAR19u4...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 24, 20231 min read
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23/30: Samuel Ace
Today's gem is "We were climbing up" by Samuel Ace: https://www.tsqnow.online/post/we-were-climbing-up Nature feels like such an apt way...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 23, 20231 min read
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22/30: imogen xtian smith
Today we are spending some time with "body checks" a poem written after Etel Adnan. https://therumpus.net/2021/03/11/rumpus-original-poet...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 22, 20231 min read
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21/30: Danez Smith
Today we are reading a fantastic and fluidly written love poem "bare" by Danez Smith. https://www.theparisamerican.com/danez-smith-poetry...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 21, 20231 min read
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20/30: Paul Tran
It's persona poem day! We are reading "Like Judith Slaying Holofernes" an absolute banger of a poem. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 20, 20231 min read
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19/30: Cody-Rose Clevidence
I love today's poem, "King/dom" for its direct and deep engagement with a word's anatomy. https://poems.com/poem/kingdom/ Today I want...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 19, 20231 min read
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18/30: Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Today we are reading "Daytona 500" a fantastic piece that elevates the beauty and grace of small, mundane joys and kindnesses....
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 18, 20231 min read
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17/30: Ching-In Chen
Today we are reading "Spell for Safety" by Ching-In Chen. http://www.originsjournal.com/split-this-rock-and-origins-journal-special-issue...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 17, 20231 min read
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16/30: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Today we are reading "Things Haunt," by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. This poem is so striking in how it organically unfolds: the...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 16, 20231 min read
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15/30: Joy Ladin
Today, the exact middle of this 30/30, seems like a good time to think of the middles, the in-betweens. Today we are reading "Between...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 15, 20231 min read
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14/30: Golden
What feeds you? What joys in your life live, inextricably linked with your sadnesses? Who are your ancestors? Just a few light questions...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 14, 20231 min read
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12/30 & 13/30: TC Tolbert & Jos Charles
Dear ones, forgive me! Life got in the way and I missed a day, but I am back with a two-fer: First we are reading the beautiful...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 13, 20231 min read
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11/30: Xan Phillips
Y'all, KT sequenced these poems perfectly. I'm having so much fun coming up with prompts for these. Are you having fun writing? Today we...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 11, 20231 min read
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10/30: Raquel Salas Rivera
A third of the way through, and we get to spend some time with a favorite poet of mine, Raquel Salas Rivera. This poem binds up personal...
Anna Binkovitz
Apr 10, 20231 min read
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