what rhymes with anniversary?
No Crime in Rhymin’ Turns One
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5 min readMay 25, 2020
What rhymes with anniversary?
Not much, it turns out — precursory, wet nursery … that’s pretty much it.
But that’s hardly the point!
We’re one! Pass the joint!
Twelve tremendous months, five hundred successful submissions, by ninety-three unique, uniquely gifted poets! I bet you’re thinking: wow, that is 5.4 poems on average per writer. I know, right?
You can read here about how NCiR’ came into existence, practically overnight, on the 25th of May, 2019.
Recent milestones reached:
- Congrats to our curated writers: Jimmy Khan for Diamonds, P.G. for The Fifth Element, and newcomer Reid for Angostura.
- Welcome to our new first-time contributors: Brian Relay (#81), Antonia Nem (#82), Krishna Betai (#83), Meg (#84), Dexx Mason, Sr. (#85), John Edward Marks (#86), Ash Jurberg (#87), Sanjukt Saha (#88), Kyle Nielson (#89), Mabel Osejindu (#90), Greg Rosenthal (#91), Reid Gan (#92), Abigael Taiwo (#93)
- A National Days of This-and-That pile-on: Garlic, Horniness, Plumbing, Rugs, Hummus, Dirty Dishes, Memos, Limericks.
- A hat trick “tri”-bute, by Jane, Harper and myself, to the little scaled mammal that could — the pangolin.
Here’s everything we published these past two months:
Editor Mary
Editor Harper
Editor Laura
SasKay
James
P.G.
Mark
Brian
Antonia
Krishna
Meg
Jane
Christyl
Dexx
Ed
Somsubhra
John
Ash
Roz
Angad
Bill
Sanjukt
Kyle
A.B.
Rand
Bebe
Mabel
Greg
Reid
Abigael
…
and your Editor-in-Chief,
Joe
And a survey of our first year:
