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April is National Poetry Month
May 4, 2018
Over 70 people joined us for the 5th Annual Poets Café on April 20th at the Harwood Art Center. Poets and writers of ArtStreet took the microphone and read their written works. Snacks and refreshments were served.
National Poetry Month each April is the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K-12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, bloggers, and, of course, poets marking poetry’s important place in our culture and our lives.
While we celebrate poets and poetry year-round, the Academy of American Poets was inspired by the successful celebrations of Black History Month (February) and Women’s History Month (March), and founded National Poetry Month in April 1996 with an aim to:
- highlight the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets,
- encourage the reading of poems,
- assist teachers in bringing poetry into their classrooms,
- increase the attention paid to poetry by national and local media,
- encourage increased publication and distribution of poetry books, and
- encourage support for poets and poetry.
Untitled
by Ted Friedlander
I am the faceless man
The Empty hand
You passed
And left to stand
A stranger on the corner
The friend in the mirror
That you didn’t find
A reflection of your hidden mind
A captive in your sharp
Cornered closet
A shadow on a hanger
Left by you to find
Awareness of
Unfound self.
An excerpt from the book Synergy Common Threads: Visual Art, Writing, and Community Making.
To purchase a book, contact the AHCH Fund Development Team at 505-338-8038.
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