Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day.
April is National Poetry Month. Here in Portland, good folks like you and I will be coming together to celebrate poetry through a vast selection of readings, events, lectures, and celebrations. Whether you are a practicing poet or simply curious about the possibilities of poetry, April is an ideal time to prime your poetry pump, connect with other people who love poetry, and find fun, new ways to tune into (and write) the poetry of your life. I’ll be offering a tip a day to get you started – or keep you going.
April 1: Keep the blank page away with a poem a day
Sign up to receive a free, daily poem (or two) by e-mail, and keep that muse fuse lit:
- 365 days a year, The Writer’s Almanac With Garrison Keillor brings poetry to your in-box.
- During the month of April, The Academy of American Poets offers a poem a day.
Sage Cohen is the author of WRITING THE LIFE POETIC: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry (Writers Digest Books, 2009), THE PRODUCTIVE WRITER: Tips & Tools for Writing More, Stressing Less and Creating success (Writer’s Digest Books, forthcoming in 2010) and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Learn more at www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com.
Image credit Poets.org.
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