Poetry Month Ain’t Over Till I Sez It’s Over: The Shockingly Good Verse of 2019

Yeah yeah yeah. Poetry Month is April, you say. That’s the only month the 811s in the library even move, you say. Once the first of May arrives a concrete slab falls and cuts off all future mentions of poetry until the next year rolls around, you say.

Well, you know what? Poetry doesn’t obey your rules, man! And if we want to talk about the stuff in 2019 that’s amazing (and, quite frankly, some of it isn’t even out yet) then that’s what we’re going to do. So gather round me, ye children. I kn...