National Poetry Month 2015 Is Near!

The 2015 National Poetry Month celebration begins just days from now. I'm making plans and enjoying this year's poster designed by Roz Chast, a 2014 National Book Award finalist and New Yorker cartoonist. Roz's clever art features a line of poetry from Mark Strand’s wonderfully devilish, "Eating Poetry" which begins:

"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.

There is no happiness like mine.

I have been eating poetry..."

Click here for the rest of Mark Strand's "Eating Poetry.”

Click on the poster to learn more about the Academy of American Poets and National Poetry Month.

To celebrate National Poetry Month this year, each week during April I'll feature a new poetry-related book right here including a giveaway of each of the books. Here is the line up of featured books:

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March 30 - April 3 week:

THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR CELEBRATIONS edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

April 6-10 week:

BLUE BIRDS by Caroline Starr Rose

April 13-17 week:

AUDACITY by Melanie Crowder

April 20-24 week:

GONE FISHING: A Novel in Verse paperback by me: Tamera Will Wissinger

Here are other poetry-related happenings:

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I'm also looking forward to participating in Irene Latham's 2015 Progressive Poem. Last year was my first time participating and it was such fun I decided to jump in again. I'll be adding the participating poets in my sidebar so that we can follow along as the poem is written.

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To celebrate the release of the Gone Fishing paperback, through 3/31 I’m hosting a Gone Fishing giveaway on twitter using the hashtag #GoneFishingPaperback.  

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Today's Poetry Friday is with Jone at Check It Out!

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That's all for now. Have a great weekend, enjoy National Poetry Month and I hope to see you back here in April to celebrate!

Comments

[Mary Lee Hahn]

This will be a very happy-making place in April! I just read BLUE BIRDS and loved it! And I am a big fan of Gone Fishing. Will we have another from you soon? (fingers crossed)

Thanks for stopping by and cheering for me, Mary Lee! Yes, BLUE BIRDS is fantastic. And thanks for your kind words about Gone Fishing. Yes, there is a companion novel in verse in the works: Gone Camping will arrive in 2017!