Here are some links specifically for National Poetry Month:

• NAPOWRIMO: write a poem a day. Looks like a bunch of people are already participating.
• University of Arkansas Press is having a sale on poetry books. Buy 1 Get 1 Free + Free Shipping. I liked The Burning World - Poems by Robert Gibb and Fire Baton - Poems by Elizabeth Hadaway so why not try them?
• The Academy of American Poets Poem A Day. Sign up and get a poem in your email inbox. And this is their National Poetry Month site. I thought their April Fool’s email parody of March Madness was cute.
• The Dead Mule has Poems on the Odds for National Poetry Month.
• Knopf also has a poem-a-day email, which has been including a link to a PDF broadside download too. You can sign up here.
• PBS and the Poetry Foundation have a multimedia site at pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/
  with videos / poetry

Finally, to paraphrase Chris Rock, you know you’re in trouble when they give you a “month.”

Poetry News:

1. — So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years? —
2. — Others believed poet Sylvia Plath was lead singer of pop group the Black Eyed Peas —
3. — Do not panic…yet. —
4. — Confusion in reading poetry, she says, is a “non-problem. I prefer to think of it as an alternative kind of knowing. It’s not one that gets a lot of credit in our culture.” —
5. — It’s hitting hardest the writers who write books that you dip in and out of: poetry, cookbooks, travel guides, short stories —
6. — Three Grand Prize winners will receive $100 each, plus their poems will be read to music, choreographed, costumed and danced by the Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company —
7. — O’Hara’s personality became famous long before his poetry did —
8. — From Punk Pioneer to Mother and Poet —
9. — Like many of the poet’s biographers, Greenblatt is convinced that Shakespeare despised his wife —

If you have any particular National Poetry Month resource you would like to share, email me or leave a blog comment and I will post it/them tomorrow.

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Poetry News:

1. — Her first poetry collection was 10 years in the making, part of which she spent working on her master’s of fine arts in English at Western Michigan University —
2. — But what people may not know is that Scott-Heron played an instrumental role in getting an official national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. —
3. — Poetry in Motion: SpotCo Designs National Poetry Month Poster —
4. — Literature or Litigation?: A Threatened Lawsuit Rattles Toronto’s Small Press Community —
5. — With apologies to A.A. Milne, Mary Jane hasn’t lost her wits. She’s begun to study scansion…. —
6. — University Press tries digital publishing —

I’m going to keep linking to MSM news articles I think because maybe the traffic will encourage them to do more of those types of things. Not that this is a huge traffic blog or anything. (Thanks for your input.)

I have had Pluto rolling back and forth over my Mars for the past couple years and now going to be rolling back and forth over my Ascendant for another couple years. If you know about astrology, this is a pretty intense happening. Heck I’ve already lost a few body parts hahaha.