National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry (a Great Resource)

The poet Dante, of Inferno fame

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month (NPM) brings together lovers of poetry from around the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. This year, the Academy is offering today’s tech-savvy students a new way to experience memorable poetry. See the Poetry Flow link at the end  of this post.

National Poetry Month: Celebrating World Poetry

http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/national-poetry-month-celebrating-world-poetry

National Poetry Month: The Power of Poetry

http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/national-poetry-month-power-poetry 

The 2014 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will be at the Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington University, April 30 (semifinals will take place on April 29). Admission is free and open to the public and the semis and finals will also be webcast live at arts.gov.

Poetry Out loud

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/about 

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa and Poetry Foundation President Robert Polito announce the 2014 National Finals of Poetry Out Loud, April 29-30, 2014 - See more at: http://arts.gov/news/2014/2014-national-finals-poetry-out-loud#sthash.kefrgKwM.dpufPoetry Out Loud Finalists 2014

http://arts.gov/news/2014/2014-national-finals-poetry-out-loud

http://www.neh.gov/

This site includes resources for National Poetry Month.
Here are a few of their choices:

• Epics
• The Ramayana
• Arabic Poetry
• Japanese Poetry
• World Poetry Sites

And a few of their related lessons:

• All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing »
• "Animal Farm": Allegory and the Art of Persuasion »
• Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World »
• Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal! »
• Can You Haiku? »
• Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive »

This year EDSITEment is broadening the horizon by focusing on the different poetic forms developed across time and around the world.

This is a marvelous app designed for the iPhone, but can be usefu for any internet connection. Today (4/11/14) is Shakespeare! 

 http://www.poemflow.com/