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How Punk Rock Emily Dickinson & I Will Celebrate National Poetry Month

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It's now officially National Poetry Month and Punk Rock Emily Dickinson (courtesy of Wendy MacNaughton ) and I have a lot of ideas in mind to celebrate Poetry in the upcoming 30 days. So we have compiled a list of poetical things we will be doing.  1. Buy a brand new Moleskine. (I got myself a new one, with a black cover, this morning).  2. Write a least a poem every day for the upcoming 30 days. (Must write my first, today).  3. Read at least a poem every day in April.  4. Read a new collection of poems by a poet I've not read yet.  5. Buy a new chapbook (support small presses, please!). dancing girl press by Kristy Bowen has an amazing offer: 3 chapbooks for 10$. Other presses you should sponsor are Juliet Cook's Blood Pudding Press , Margaret Bashaar's Hyacinth Girl Press . Also, you could join the fundraising for the new Hysteria Anthology , edited by E. Kristin Anderson, which will be published  by Lucky Bastard Press next May.  6. Buy a new collection (M