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National Poetry Month is over,but we're still publishing great poetry at As It Ought To Be. Here's a stunning poem about loss, celebrity, and the media by Roy Bentley
Although National Poetry Month is coming to an end soon, we are still celebrating by looking at some of the poetry we have published in the past. Here are two prose poems about queer iconography by Mike James.
WHICH IS TO SAY,
there is another way home.
Just
yesterday, I saw the beating arc of starlings
who migrate to the Negev every year. It was late
and you have to take my word for this. They
became a single body that exhaled a melody
of startled scales made out of bones and feathers,
a flock of notes that scattered to swoop and play,
then reassemble in a different serenade, a fist of
sky squeezing its shape, or the curve of a swan’s
neck.
New and stunning poetry up now on AIOTB.
New on As It Ought To Be: the third in a series of poems about the immigrant experience in American by Bunkong Tuon.
"Powell’s work is an enlightenment that allows the reader to see the world for what it can be when observed fully." New poetry up now on AIOTB.
April is National Poetry Month and we're celebrating by looking back at some of the poetry we have published here on AIOTB. Here's "The World After the Fall" By John Guzlowski.
April is National Poetry Month and we are celebrating by looking back at some of the poetry we've published on AIOTB in the past. Here's "Song of the Exiles" By Holly Karapetkova
New on As It Ought to Be: The second post in a series of poems about the immigrant experience in America by Bunkong Tuon.
April is National Poetry Month and we're celebrating by looking back at some of the poetry we have published in the past. Here's the first of a series by Lynn Houston about her relationship with a soldier deployed in Afghanistan.
Continuing in our celebration of National Poetry Month, here's "A May Evening, Everything Is Ok" By Heather Whited
April is National Poetry Month and we are celebrating by looking back at some of the poems we have published on As It Ought To Be. Here is "Mental Health Portraits" By Margaret Crocker.
April is National Poetry Month! We're celebrating by looking back at some of the poetry we've published in the past. Here's "After the Squall" by Elise Paschen
New on As It Ought To Be: The first of a series of poems on the immigrant experience in America by Bunkong Tuon.
