This week we continued our penultimate week of NPM celebrations with more author interviews and poems, and quietly (and unrelatedly) wondered to ourselves "why does anyone make bread when they can buy it?" (We get why, ps). 

Today we chat with Wade Kearley about his third poetry collection Narrow Cradle (Breakwater Books), a mid-life reckoning with mortality that through poetic form strives for freedom and personal rebirth. Below, Kearley shares more about learning his love for family, the planet ... Read more

This National Poetry Month is an action-packed celebration of twenty-four poets who write in all kinds of spaces and explore all kinds of styles and themes that delight, offer reflection, and soothe our spirits. Join us here on the blog throughout the month for our feature poets, ... Read more