Happy National Poetry Month!

Guess what readers? (few though you may be) April is national poetry month and according to my calendar, it's April! So how will you be celebrating? My recommendation would be to find a quiet part of the day, go outside and write something! I for one have been extremely busy and stressed lately and have found that nothing is more cathartic than enjoying nature and ravenous gulps of fresh air while putting a couple thoughts onto paper. The best thing about poetry is that you, yes you, are in complete control. If you like rules, there's poetry as strict as the boy's dress code at formal dinner, if you like free form, there's poetry as free as the girl's dress code at formal dinner, you can write poems that are as long as a conversation with Mr. Leff, or poems short enough to be tweeted, you can write flowery sentences or simple prose. It's like a choose your own adventure novel but with infinite possibilities!
Over the course of the month, I will be attempting to put together some additional ways to celebrate. Some things to keep on the radar are Poem In Your Pocket Day on April 26, a possible literary publication by the end of the month, a poetry centric lunch (though probably not in the library like last year) and anything else anyone can think of.
As always, you are welcome and in fact encouraged to post your work to this blog either by emailing it to me or responding as a comment. In fact, you don't even have to post poetry! Post art, post a college essay, post your thoughts on this post, post your biology lab report, post song lyrics translated into Hungarian, post whatever your heart desires and your pen/handy-dandy-Gould-provided-computer-dictates. It will be fun I promise!

Also, check out this hilarious link to a blog on the Huffington Post about schools of poetry based on "unlikely modern poets" including the likes of Lady Gaga, Mitt Romney and Fidel Castro.  I found it rather amusing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathryn-petras/unlikely-modern-poets_b_1401217.html?ref=books

Happy National Poetry Month! And don't forget to POST POST POST!!!