Next month is April and National Poetry Month. In the UK, October is the national month of poetry celebration. These are opportunities to do more with poetry than you might during a regular month.
A fellow poet and myself exchanged a newly written poem a day last October. This was a first for me. Never had I attempted to write a new piece everyday for a month. But we survived and were the better for it.
We plan to do this again next month during the United State's version of the national celebration. But let's be honest, calling it a national event is a bit exaggerated perhaps. A National Endowment for the Arts found in a study that for the year 2009, barely over 8% of adults had read any form of poetry in the last year.
To my personal thrill, we are currently under the poetry leadership of Charles Wright at our present Poet Laureate for 2014-15. I have to admit that this alone has kept me fired up for reading and writing since Wright's appointment was announced. Most of us have poets we can go to almost anytime for any reason and find inspiration. Charles Wright's work is that for me.
My challenge to you is to find whatever you need to turn what remains of 2014 into your Personal Poetry Year, and again next year, for the rest of your life.
A fellow poet and myself exchanged a newly written poem a day last October. This was a first for me. Never had I attempted to write a new piece everyday for a month. But we survived and were the better for it.
We plan to do this again next month during the United State's version of the national celebration. But let's be honest, calling it a national event is a bit exaggerated perhaps. A National Endowment for the Arts found in a study that for the year 2009, barely over 8% of adults had read any form of poetry in the last year.
To my personal thrill, we are currently under the poetry leadership of Charles Wright at our present Poet Laureate for 2014-15. I have to admit that this alone has kept me fired up for reading and writing since Wright's appointment was announced. Most of us have poets we can go to almost anytime for any reason and find inspiration. Charles Wright's work is that for me.
My challenge to you is to find whatever you need to turn what remains of 2014 into your Personal Poetry Year, and again next year, for the rest of your life.
