From the article: Celebrating National Poetry Month
Since the Academy of American Poets initiated the celebration of National Poetry Month in 1996, the month of April has been a particularly good time to pay attention to poets and discover the ways poems can enrich your everyday life. We’ve made suggestions about how you can celebrate—but we’d like to hear your ideas, dear Readers. Tell us how you celebrate poetry in April. Share the Ways You Found.
NPM with California Chaparral Poets
- Celebrate National Poetry Month at the annual California Federation of Chaparral Poets Inc convention... all poets are invited to attend; membership is not required. Workshops, book tables and poetic gatherings, open readings far into the night, great speakers on various aspects of poetry, special afternoon readings by awardwinning junior and senior high school poets, and a luncheon, annual meeting and banquet. The convention celebration begins April 29 at the Hawthorn Suites Hotel in Sacramento.
- —Guest AM
Poetry Week at FiveBooks
- To mark National Poetry Month, at FiveBooks we are running a week of interviews with leading poets, each discussing their five favourite books on, or of, poetry. Today is the first interview in the series, with Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales: http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gillian-clarke-on-poetry
- —Guest FiveBooks
Nat’l Poetry Month in Broward County, FL
- Broward Libraries are displaying local poets’ poems, “All About Broward,” with two public readings.
- —Roxinante
I celebrate poetry by writing poems
- Circle Of Poetry Poetry is communication / whether across the room / or across the nation. / It may be funny, sad, happy or tragic / it is the spell that induces the magic. / Look through their eyes / the poet will show you / places you’ve seen, / people who know you. / The spectrum of experience / by the human race / is written for all time / on poetry’s face. / From the top of the mind / to the bottom of the heart: / Poetry is words / in the service of art. / Copyright 2010
- —Guest Kirk Nordstrom
Write a poem every day and share it
- I plan to write a poem every day and post it in one of my blogs.
- —Guest sunglowing
