Since 1996, April has celebrated poetry at the national level. The Academy of American Poets launched the celebration to spread poetry to a wider than usual audience.
At Suite101 Poetry, every month is poetry month, every week is poetry week, every day is . . . you can see where I’m going here.
It 's true, readers can celebrate poetry here every day all day long: with articles about poetry and poets and poetry events, with a blog to help keep you updated on poetry articles and poets and events. There is even a discussion area where you can post questions, comments, or just the random thoughts that you are urged to express.
You can express yourself by taking the poll, that this month focuses on your intentions for celebrating April as National Poetry Month.
Celebrating April with Articles
In case you might have missed them, here are the April poetry articles thus far:
Apr 4, 2007 “Frost’s ‘Mending Wall’”The speaker in Frost's "Mending Wall" is a provocateur, questioning the wall's purpose, chiding his neighbor about it, yet he is the one more concerned about its repair.
Apr 3, 2007 “Yeats “Easter, 1916’” William Butler Yeats' poem, "Easter, 1916," focuses on the Irish rebellion known as the Easter Rising, which occurred the week after Easter of 1916 in Dublin, Ireland.
Apr 2, 2007 “Shakespeare Sonnet 7” The speaker employs a clever pun in Sonnet 7 as he metaphorically compares the young man's life to a daily trip of the great star across the sky.
Apr 1, 2007 “Housman’s ‘Loveliest of trees’” A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of trees," often misread as a carpe diem poem, actually offers a way to increase the enjoyment of beauty, not just grasp it for a while.
Thanks for visiting Poetry at Suite101.com, and whichever way you choose to celebrate Poetry during this cruelest month of April, I hope your celebration affords you joy and enrichment.
