It is April again, bringing daffodils, cherry blossoms and National Poetry Month, an annual invitation to bring more poetry into your life. If you’re unsure about how to do that — or why you’d want to ...
As a high school English teacher, I balk a little at the idea of April’s National Poetry Month; isn’t Poetry Month every month? I begin the school year with poem annotations, a gentle practice of ...
April is National Poetry Month and that’s because of an initiative by the Academy of American Poets beginning in 1996. The Academy claims National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in ...
Every April, National Poetry Month brings showers of opportunities to celebrate the well-chosen word. We list here a small sprinkling of events raining down on Seattle and the Eastside over the coming ...
This April marks two decades since the Academy of American Poets, and readers and writers of poetry everywhere, celebrated the first ever National Poetry Month. And what better way to honor the ...
For National Poetry Month, we asked three poets — Diana Goetsch, Karisma Price and Sally Wen Mao — for a poem on the subject of identity. We then asked three artists — Margaret Flatley, Anjali ...
WASHINGTON — With April comes National Poetry Month, celebrating the importance of the art form in the U.S. Established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month not only ...
April is National Poetry Month: 30 days set aside for the celebration of all things verse. Many of us here at Code Switch love poetry every month of the year, but we can't always make space for it in ...
Today marks the start of National Poetry Month, the monthlong celebration of the verse inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. The April initiative aims to highlight the legacy and ...
April is National Poetry Month, a time for readers and writers to come together to share their favorite verses. Bustle has put together your reading list for National Poetry Month 2020, filled with ...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with children's book author and poet Andrea Davis Pinkney about her picks from the #NPRPoetry submissions. Now for some poetry. As we celebrate NPR Poetry Month, we've ...