It's National Poetry Month @ home in the USA (& the world)
April is looking like an even crueler month than usual this year, but it's still National Poetry Month! (In the US, anyhow. But the rest of the world is more than welcome to join in.)
Fortunately, poets.org and the Academy of American Poets has a handy-dandy list of 30 ways to celebrate at home or online:
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month-home-or-online
Spoiler alert: #30 is a fund-raising appeal. However, there's also a poster to download (I managed to put it up as wallpaper on my PC), free poetry emails & podcasts to explore, and even a selection of poems just for kids.
There is also Knopf Poetry, with its free daily poem for your Inbox during the month of April (and, of course, occasional sales mailings throughout the year -- though these are rare & never terribly intrusive). Sign up here:
https://tinyurl.com/ssax8g4
Once you're on this particular list, it seems to activate automatically each April.
I've been reading a lot more poetry lately -- while struggling to write my own -- & I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one with this craving. I'll be posting more links throughout April to help folks find free poetry & related resources while staying safe.
Fortunately, poets.org and the Academy of American Poets has a handy-dandy list of 30 ways to celebrate at home or online:
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month-home-or-online
Spoiler alert: #30 is a fund-raising appeal. However, there's also a poster to download (I managed to put it up as wallpaper on my PC), free poetry emails & podcasts to explore, and even a selection of poems just for kids.
There is also Knopf Poetry, with its free daily poem for your Inbox during the month of April (and, of course, occasional sales mailings throughout the year -- though these are rare & never terribly intrusive). Sign up here:
https://tinyurl.com/ssax8g4
Once you're on this particular list, it seems to activate automatically each April.
I've been reading a lot more poetry lately -- while struggling to write my own -- & I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one with this craving. I'll be posting more links throughout April to help folks find free poetry & related resources while staying safe.