ABBY PAIGE

I don’t usually pay much attention to these officially declared months, even if I do love poetry. (And women’s history and black history and baked beans — you didn’t know? July is National Baked Bean Month. July! Despite the fact that baked beans are clearly a winter food. Clearly. I mean, duh.) But this post by poet David McGimpsey makes National Poetry Month feel worth celebrating.

Happy Month. Go read some poems. While there’s still time.