Welcome to the 2012 TYCA National Poetry Month Celebration! Each day a new poem from two-year college English faculty from TYCA's various regions will appear for your listening and viewing pleasure. Please share this link far and wide to promote the great work of two-year college English faculty across the nation.
Thank you very much! The poets have left the building, but will be returning next April for our 5th go round.
April 30
Vail Dinkins of Santa Barbara City College in TYCA's Pacific Coast region reads her poem "Sometimes I Fall."
April 29
Sorry. No poem for today. We're sad about it too. :-(
April 28
Pablo Miguel Martinez from Lone Star Community College in TYCA's Southwest region reads his poem "This Valley."
April 27
James Freeman of Bucks County Community College in TYCA's Northeast region reads his poem "Volcanic Rainbow Hill."
April 26
Beth Humphreys of New Mexico State University Grants in TYCA's Southwest region reads her poem "Warrior Mesas."
April 25
Connie Wasem Scott of Spokane Falls Community College in TYCA's Pacific Northwest region reads her poem "Whiskers on His Face."
April 24
M. Lani T. Montreal of Malcolm X College in TYCA's Midwest region reads her poem "Calibration."
April 23
Pablo Miguel Martinez from Lone Star Community College in TYCA's Southwest region reads his poem "Translation."
April 22
Diana Smith of Southwest Texas Junior College in TYCA's Southwest region reads her poem "Tidal Locking."
April 21
Kevin Zepper of Minnesota State University Moorhead in TYCA's Midwest region reads his poem "Fossils"
April 20
Howard Rosenberg of Gloucester County College in TYCA's Northeast region reads his poem "Weight of Life."
April 19
Jim Tolan of Borough of Manhattan Community College in TYCA's Northeast region reads his poem "It was the 70s."
April 18
Chella Courington of Santa Barbara City College in TYCA's Pacific Coast region reads her poem "Poland."
April 17
Phil Vassallo of Middlesex County College in TYCA's Northeast region reads his poem "On Living Near the Bronx Zoo, An Urban Sestina."
April 15 and 16
Technical difficulties kept us from publishing poems for these two days. Our apologies. We are back now, better than ever.
April 14
Jodi Corbett of Reading Area Community College in TYCA's Northeast region reads her poem "Patriotic Static."
April 13
Bertha Wise of Oklahoma City Community College in TYCA's Southwest region reads her poem "Pressing Down Hard."
April 12
Jennifer Beebe of Everett Community College in TYCA's Pacific Northwest region reads her poem "All the Green Day," originally published in the now defunct Cranky Literary Journal.
April 11
Michael Sanders of University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College in Blue Ash, OH and TYCA's Midwest region shares his poem, "Composing on Magnetic Tape."
April 10
Jes Lee Shimek and Kathryn Kysar from TYCA's Midwest region collaborate on Kysar's poem Hand Sisters," previously found in Pretend the World published by Holy Cow! Press
April 9
Sheila Packa of Lake Superior College in TYCA's Midwest region reads her poem "was it I."
April 8
Meg Withers of Merced Community College, Los Baños campus, in TYCA's Pacific Coast region reads her poem "Frottage."
April 7
Christine Brandel of Ivy Tech Community College in TRYCA's Midwest region reads her poem " Her Strange."
April 6
Laura Read of Spokane Falls Community College reads "Directions for My Mother's Funeral," the title poem of the 2011 Association of Writers and Writing Program's Donald Hall Prize in Poetry winning collection.
April 5
Brian Dickson of the Community College of Denver in TYCA's Southwest region reads his poem "Fragments Overheard at a Condolence Party."
April 4
Caroline Johnson, part-time instructor of English and American Literature at Moraine Valley Community College and Morton College (both in the Chicago suburbs), both in TYCA's Midwest region, reads her poem "Szeretlek," Hungarian for "I love you."
April 3
Brenda Bradley of McLennan Community College in Waco, TX and TYCA's Southwest region reads her poem "Silence."
April 2
Lee Herrick of Fresno City College in TYCA's Pacific Coast region reads his poem "Salvation."
April 1
Sterling Warner of Evergreen Valley College in San Jose and TYCA's Pacific Coast region reads his poem "Image."