obscura april

As we all know, April is “National Poetry Month.” Last year’s Poetry month, was like a month-long superbowl. We all enjoyed the fireworks, the rhyming-parades, live televised poetry jams and interpretive dances (ick). Speaking about last year, once again, the Academy of American Poets has asked me to take the month off - for ”the sake of poets everywhere.” “Dear Anais Don’t betray us. April’s our month to shine. We’re asking you to confine, your poetry to the other 11 months, please listen to us - just this once. Your poetry isn’t that popular, and we think your work is subtacular.” They’d rhymed it, of course. I was moved. I mean, if you write my kind of poetry, It’s a good idea to keep moving, Happy Poetry Month!