It's National Poetry Month! According to Poets.org, National Poetry Month was established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to widen the attention to poetry, poets, and to poetic heritage. It's a month when schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets get together to celebrate poetry and its place in American culture.
Want to celebrate at home? Poets.org has a list of 30 ways you can do that.
Or why not reserve a poetry book this month? Here are a few ideas:
Poetry Speaks Who I Am edited by Elise Paschen
Something Permanent photographs by Walker Evans, poetry by Cynthia Rylant
The Pain Tree: And Other Teenage Angst-Ridden Poetry collected and illustrated by Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd
Hour of Freedom: American History in Poetry compiled by Milton Meltzer, illustrations by Marc Nadel
It's a Woman's World: A Century of Women's Voices in Poetry edited by Neil Philip
My Name is Jason, Mine Too: Our Story, Our Way by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
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