"The Dead" by Billy Collins

Poetry Month

It's April. And April means Poetry. Whether we have Eliot to thank for this or Chaucer, I don't know, but in honor of Poetry Month I thought I would draw readers' attention not so much to individual poets--although I'll probably do that, too--but to poetry presses.

To start things off, check out Milkweed Editions, because they send me eVerse every week and it happened to arrive this morning when I was thinking about doing a poetry post. Milkweed is also known for great fiction, but in poetry they publish such greats as Patiann Rogers, Alex Lemon, and Katrina Vandenberg. Definitely a press worth checking out.