April is National Poetry Month, and many of my friends and fellow poets are participating in a NaPoWri (which means write a poem a day for the month of April)' as has been my record of late, I started writing on April 1st, and dropped out on April 5th. Many of my friends are posting over at The Academy of American Poets Site and others on their blogs or via email or on-line poetry forums. The Dallas Poets Community is having a 20 year birthday-celebration and 14 hour poetry-thon Saturday April 10th from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm at Half Price Books (Northwest Highway and Central). I read for 15 minutes from 10:45-11:00 and host from 11:00 to 12:00, I am a bit nervous but likely will bluster through. I have decided to read a mix of established poets with a few of my own thrown in, so far I have picked two poems. Mark Strand's Eating Poetry, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's What the Heart of a Young Man Said to the Psalmist (One of my personal favorite poems, perhaps the first adult poem I --circa 7th grade); I am thinking I might read Mark Doty, Billy Collins, Marge Piercy, and Jack Gilbert--still deciding which ones, and I am open for suggestions. Of my own I will likely read Marrow, Red Planet, and What Breaks the Human Heart. We will see if I change my mind. Wishing everyone a wonderful month of Poetry.
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