A poem is not a drafted plan; it is a balance between forgetting the truth and understanding it. April is National Poetry Month, and The Iowa Review is excited to continue with our annual online feature. For each day in April, we will publish a poem online by writers who demonstrate how the truth is composed of conflicting ideas, like what makes us laugh the hardest breaks our hearts the hardest, that terror has a great sorrow to it, and that exploiting the ugliness is just as important as discovering the beauty.
Here is a list of this year’s poets:
April 1 – Shane McCrae
April 2 – Kameryn Carter
April 3 – Sara McGuirk
April 4 – Sawako Nakayasu
April 5 – Annelyse Gelman
April 6 – Precious Okoyomon
April 7 – Vanessa Moody
April 8 – Julia Anna Morrison
April 9 – Michael Dumanis
April 10 – Zachary Schomburg
April 11 – Anastasios Karnazes
April 12 – James Allen Hall
April 13 – Kevin A. González
April 14 – Liam O’Brien
April 15 – Mia Kang
April 16 – Kirsten Ihns
April 17 – Zach Savich
April 18 – J. Mae Barizo
April 19 – Cassie Donish
April 20 – Marlin Jenkins
April 21 – Katie Willingham
April 22 – Aria Aber
April 23 – Talin Tahajian
April 24 – Catherine Pond
April 25 – Samuel Amadon
April 26 – Molly Minturn
April 27 – Daniel Khalastchi
April 28 – Grady Chambers and Olivia Cronk
April 29 – D.A. Powell
April 30 – Sarah Matthes
