It's Poetry Month! Celebrate!
April is here to stay and you should really do something poetic this month whether you are a Poet or not. Here is a few ideas of how you might celebrate poetry for the coming 30 days: 1. Read a poem a day 2. Write a poem a day (if you need prompts, you may enjoy Kelli Agodon 's here ) 3. Listen to poets read their poems (try YouTube, I am suggesting one I love here ) 4. Watch a movie or docu-movie about a poet ( Bright Star , Sylvia , etc. My suggestion here ) 5. Attend a reading 6. Take part in a reading 7. Record some poems to send to your family or friends 8. Buy a poetry collection, or more (choose indie bookstores whenever you can!) 9. Take poetry to work (delight your colleagues!) 10. Buy some chalk and write your lines in the streets (be a street poet!) 11. Leave some poems in a cafe for others to read 12. Buy a poetry journal 13. Suscribe to a poetry journal 14. Write a letter or an e-mail to a poet you ...