30 Days of The Five-Two (2020)

April is National Poetry Month, as "inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture."

The Five-Two joins the celebration with a month-long blog tour. Since this year's COVID-19 outbreak has affected scheduling, I'd appreciate if you simply link to any Five-Two poems you enjoy on your social media. I hope your followers share links with their followers, and so on, promoting poetry in general and The Five-Two specifically.

We will feature four debut Poems of the Week and any guest posts contributed in preparation for or during the tour itself. If you wish to post any Five-Two-related material, email me a link to your entry or the entry itself to post here.

Also challenge yourself to write poems and submit to The Five-Two by April 23 (Shakespeare's birthday). Accepted poems will be published in May and beyond.

The official hashtag of National Poetry Month is #nationalpoetrymonth. Our specific Twitter hashtag is #30OfThe52.

Participants and promoters of the tour may download the badge image above and add it to their entries or follow these instructions to copy-and-paste the image HTML code.

All April revenue from Five-Two and Lineup books and merchandise is donated to the nonprofit Academy of American Poets, supporting poets at all stages of their careers and fostering the appreciation of contemporary poetry.

• Wednesday, April 1 -
• Thursday, April 2 -
• Friday, April 3 -
• Saturday, April 4 -
• Sunday, April 5 - Charles Rammelkamp on Faye Turner-Johnson's "Just Shoot 'Em"
• Monday, April 6 - Poem of the Week: "I Died a Thousand Times: Death #4" by Richie Narvaez
• Tuesday, April 7 -
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• Monday, April 13 - Poem of the Week: "Prom Queen" by Tom Barlow
• Tuesday, April 14 -
• Wednesday, April 15 -
• Thursday, April 16 -
• Friday, April 17 -
• Saturday, April 18 -
• Sunday, April 19 - Poetry Month at the Kensington Neighborhood Library
• Monday, April 20 - Poem of the Week: "Autobiography of Ursula" by Margot Douaihy
• Tuesday, April 21 -
• Wednesday, April 22 -
• Thursday, April 23 -
• Friday, April 24 - "Euphrates of Tears" by John Kaprielian
• Saturday, April 25 -
• Sunday, April 26 -
• Monday, April 27 - Poem of the Week: "You Can't Quarantine Crime" by Peter M. Gordon
• Tuesday, April 28 -
• Wednesday, April 29 -
• Thursday, April 30 -