April 10, 2020: Poets We Should All Read: Robin Jewel Smith’s Suggestions

[April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate I’ll highlight a handful of poets, past and present, we should all be reading. Including some suggestions from fellow AmericanPoetryStudiers—add yours for a celebratory, crowd-sourced weekend poetry post, please!]For this final post in the series (before that weekend post, so get your nominations in!), I wanted to hand over the blog-reins to one of our most talented young poets, Robin Jewel Smith. Robin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of North Dakota, and her first chapbook, Confessions of a Love Addict, will be coming out this month from Dancing Girl Press. Here are the poets and works Robin shared (in no particular order):Donika Kelly, Bestiary Douglas Kearney, Patter Sally Wen Mao, Oculus Paul Tran, “The Cave” Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Sadie Dupuis, Mouthguard Tishani Doshi, Girls are Coming Out of the Woods Marwa Helal, Invasive Species Crowd-sourced post this weekend,BenPS. So one more time: what do you think? Other poets you’d highlight?