about the celebration
about the celebration
National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.
Thank you for joining in the celebration by listing your events and attending other events in your community, displaying this year's poster, participating in Poem in Your Pocket Day, recommending the Dear Poet project to a young person, signing up to read a Poem-a-Day, and checking out 30 more ways to celebrate.
We hope National Poetry Month's events and activities will inspire you to keep celebrating poetry all year long!
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Dear Poet A multimedia educational project that invites young people to write letters in response to poems shared by our Chancellors. |  | Poem in Your Pocket Day Join thousands of individuals across the U.S. who will carry a poem in their pocket on April 27. |  | Poetry & the Creative Mind This year's annual gala will be held at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 19. |  |
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Jan 27 2017
Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial CelebrationCelebrate the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) with poets Angela Jackson and Quraysh Ali Lansana, who will read Brooks’ work and engage in a conversation on her legacy. A Shelley Memorial Award winner, Jackson is the author of numerous plays, novels and poetry collections, including the National Book Award-nominated And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and New (Northwestern University Press, 1998). Lansana is the author of numerous poetry collections, including mystic turf (Willow Books, 2012) and They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press, 2004); with Nate Marshall and Kevin Coval, he edited The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015). Co-hosted by the NYU Creative Writing Program. Free and open to the public. Contact: info@ccpoets.org
5:00pm
NYU Lillian Vernon Writers House
58 W. 10th St
10011
New York, New York
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Jan 27 2017
Couplet Reading Series: The Winter Edition“COUPLET”—A Quarterly Poetry Reading Series & Social at The Delancey (lower level), Lower East Side, NYC Produced by Leah Umansky & DJ Ceremony, and hosted by poet Leah Umansky, COUPLET is a quarterly reading series held on the Lower East Side featuring both emerging and established poets. Every event features music & after-party by DJ Ceremony. No cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This edition’s featured readers: Contact: Ladybronte@aol.com
7:00pm
The Delancey
168 Delancey Street
10001
new york, New York
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