The finale for National Poetry Month is "Tell Our Daughters" by TMR's Language Lessons contributor Besmilr Brigham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_HAskxdFPg

besmilr brigham (1913-2000), raised by farmers in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, began writing seriously in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, traveled alone by freighter in 1948 to charred Europe, from 1950 to the late 70’s with daughter and husband traveled by car to and lived in Nicaragua, Nova Scotia, Alaska, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, returning in intervals to the U.S. to work, writing relentlessly “putting away manuscripts” on her own terms, is the author of Agony Dance: death of the (Dancing Dolls (Prensa De Lagar, 1969), Heaved from the Earth (Knopf, 1972), and Run Through Rock edited by C.D. Wright (Lost Roads, 2000). She died in New Mexico.