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National Poetry Month
Portrait caption: Marianne Moore, poet, critic and translator. ... Miss Moore was born in St. Louis but became a Brooklynite [living at 260 Cumberland Street in Fort Greene] by choice.
National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets as a month-long, national celebration of poetry. The concept was to increase the attention paid-by individuals and the media—to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our poetic heritage, and to poetry books and magazines. It has been successful beyond all anticipation and has grown over the years into the largest literary celebration in the world.
Learn more about why April is National Poetry Month
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Celebrate the first national Poem In Your Pocket Day!The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends on April 17.
Books
Broken land : poems of Brooklyn / edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf & Michael Tyrell
Beautiful Brooklyn / Poetry by Carl Roc
Words in your face : a guided tour through twenty years of the New York City poetry slam / Cristin O'Keefe
A poet in New York = Poeta en Nueva York / Federico García Lorca; translated by Pablo Medina and Mark Statman
Catching life by the throat : How to read poetry and why; poems from eight great poets / edited by Josephine Hart
The poems of Marianne Moore edited by Grace Schulman
Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman
Five women poets [sound recording] / Gertrude Stein, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Muriel Rukeyser
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