Two North Carolina Poets - Reading & Book Signing

Shelby Stephenson and Nancy T. King the featured poets.

Sex With A Famous Poet

As part of my own advise to share poems you like with others, this Denise Duhamel poem I ran across a couple of weeks ago is one I like - thought others might enjoy it too!

Sex With A Famous Poet

Robert Bly & Naomi Shihab Nye - Appearing together at reading

April 13th - in Austin, TX
Poetry reading of Rumi, with Naomi Shihab Nye.
Contact: Farid Mohammadi, poetry10@juno.com


Wow, I've had the pleasure of seeing them both separately. This should be delicious!

What Poetry Can Do For You

Diane Cameron from the Christian Science Monitor writes What Poetry Can Do For You

Issue # 3 of Plum Ruby Review is Up - check it out

National Poetry Month.... Things to do

Poetry Month (April) began in 1996. It is a way for us to being Poetry into focus.

The Academy of American Poets has an online almanac with 365 ideas and things to do related to poetry. Check out the Bob Minzesheimer piece from USA TODAY.

Poetry Almanac

Sick Poet urges you to embrace this month as a way to enrich your own life and that of others by sharing poetry with your friends.

1. recommend a good poetry book to a friend
2. share a favorite poem
3. send a poem you wrote to someone on a post card (even the postman will likely read it)
4. try writing in a different style than usual
5. write a poem in the persona of someone else - different gender, age, race, economic status
6. attend a local poetry reading - take a friend
7. if you can't find a local reading, invite some friends over and have a reading of your own.

these are just a few suggestions - i'm sure you may be able to come up with others

stop and smell the metaphors

"It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there." - Carlos Williams