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We’re Celebrating National Poetry Month!

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

April is National Poetry Month (it’s also National Stress Awareness Month, but someone else can blog that), and we decided to do something special to recognize and help promote it. National Poetry Month was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets (Canada joined in the fun in 1999).

With the help of friends, we will be posting poems old and new, reviews of poetry books and whatever news we can get our hands on – with a goal of at least one post for each day of the month.

We’re also thinking about a couple of giveaways – random drawings to receive a book of poetry (or two). Those will be some of the 30 postings for the month.

And, in the comments section, please feel free to link to your own poems and/or link to a favorite poetry or poet’s site. (FYI, if you haven’t commented before, WordPress will suspect you’re spam and stick your comment in the “to be checked” file for the editor. We’ll be checking several times a day, so don’t get discouraged.)

To get things off on the right ode, here’s a link you can subscribe to receive a poem a day throughout the month of April.

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Glynn Young lives in St. Louis where he recently retired as the team leader for Online Strategy & Communications for a Fortune 500 company. Glynn writes poetry, short stories and fiction, and he loves to bike. He is the author of Poetry at Work and the Dancing Priest Series. Find Glynn at Faith, Fiction, Friends.
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  1. n davis rosback says

    March 31, 2010 at 12:14 am

    writing poetry
    reduces stress
    it’s true because
    i read it on my
    slip of paper that
    came in my fortune
    cookie after i made
    that mess by
    spilling my green
    tea all over the tie
    of the guy sitting
    beside me reading
    poetry
    and was
    not at all
    stressed out

    Reply
  2. Maureen Doallas says

    March 31, 2010 at 7:47 am

    I’m participating in the give-away. My post on that will be up tomorrow.

    I’m continuing my series on state Poets Laureate, and will have a large number of posts on poets I particularly like or admire.

    Reply
  3. Heather says

    March 31, 2010 at 10:49 am

    I may do a giveaway. If my book is ready in time. 🙂 And I am doing a poem a day over at my blog. I will also be linking to poems and poet blogs, so feel free to drop me a comment with yours.

    Reply
  4. L.L. Barkat says

    March 31, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    I’m impressed. Are we doing all that? 😉

    Reply
  5. Phoenix-Karenee says

    March 31, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Anticipation rises… what will occur?

    Reply
  6. n davis rosback says

    March 31, 2010 at 8:08 pm

    Beware the odes of April !

    Reply
  7. Erin says

    March 31, 2010 at 10:34 pm

    Oh what fun!
    My poem’s done.

    Reply

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