Sage Cohen's Tip A Day: Listen and Learn

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 12: Listen and learn

A poem on the page is one experience; and a poem spoken in the poet’s own voice is another. Tune into the music of the spoken word through poetry audio recordings accessible online:

• Academy of American Poets
• Poetry Foundation
• From the Fishouse

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.