Poem in Your Pocket Day on Thursday 4/30

Somehow Annabel Lee should be in the back pocket of a pair of Levis.

Poem in Your Pocket Day takes place every year on a day in National Poetry Month. The 2020 Poem in Your Pocket Day will take place on Thursday, April 30. This year we encourage you to celebrate digitally. It's easy to participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day from a safe distance.

Remote Program: Poem in Your Pocket Day, April 30, 2020

https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/poem-in-your-pocket-day-2020/

 

Participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day!

 http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/participate-poem-your-pocket-20720.html

Is that a poem in your pocket?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/is-that-a-poem-in-your-pocket

 

 

Here is my very first Poem in my Pocket: Longfellow's 'The Rainy Day.'

 

National Poetry Month: Poem #30

I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)







Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886







I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!




How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –  
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –  
To an admiring Bog!

National Poetry Month: Matsuo Basho

From time to time

The clouds give rest

To the moon-beholders.

The summer grasses

All that remains

Of brave soldiers dreams

A bee 

staggers out

of the peony.

Matsuo Basho

About Matsuo Basho

Matsuo Basho was one of the most famous haiku masters of the world. His poems were influenced by his firsthand experience of the world around him, often encapsulating the feeling of a scene in a few simple elements. 

National Poetry Month: Poem #28

Haiku

“The piercing chill I feel:

      my dead wife’s comb, in our bedroom,

          under my heel…”

Taniguchi Buson

from the translation

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 

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

National Finals Cancelled Due to Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Federal Guidelines to slow the spread of the Coronavirus-19 require avoiding social gatherings in groups of more than 10 people, and avoiding discretionary travel for the foreseeable future. Out of care for the health and safety of students, parents, and everyone involved in Poetry Out Loud, the National Finals Competition scheduled for April 27 – 29th in Washington D.C. is cancelled.

The Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts understand that many people have committed long hours preparing for the POL Finals Competition, and we share in your disappointment. In the weeks to come, we will explore ways to honor the achievements of the 2020 Poetry Out Loud State Champions.

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 useful for any internet connection.

Poem Flow app review: a beautiful way to experience poetry

http://www.apppicker.com/reviews/14949/Poem-Flow-app-review-a-beautiful-way-to-experience-poetry

Hello, Poetry Lovers

Rocky and Bullwinkle had to be the best comedy writing ever, and it was clean. To fully enjoy Bullwinkle's Corner, read the original poems first.

The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178713 

Bullwinkle's Corner - The Raven 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abZZ38xJnyM 

Excelsior By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173897 

 Bullwinkle's Corner - Excelsior 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYeav3nQEg 

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790 

Bullwinkle's Corner - The Daffodils 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv1L-8f2erg

The Children's Hour By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173894 

Bullwinkle's Corner - The Children's Hour 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpcK69p3EZk 

Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174751 

Bullwinkle's Corner - Barbara Frietchie

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAPT52aXGM

The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8447391-The-Village-Blacksmith-by-Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow

Bullwinkle's Corner - The Village Blacksmith 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMbsw4sPhEA

So, where is that Poetry Slam?

Welcome to Poetry Slam, Inc. http://www.poetryslam.com/

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National Poetry Month: Edgar Allan Poe

A fascinating, intelligent, tragic guy. Its as though he were writing the original scripts for 'Criminal Minds.'

 The Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Also other images.

http://www.eapoe.org/ 

Edgar Allan Poe
Lesson plans, biography, and teaching resources

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poe.html

Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, tales, and poems 

poestories.com/

Contains Poe's works, story summaries, quotes, Poe wordlist with definitions, photos and paintings.

The Poetry Foundation has a biography about Poe worth reading, as well as articles and poems. Thanks again, Poetry Foundation.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edgar-allan-poe?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Poetryfoundationorg+Newsletter&utm_content=Poetryfoundationorg+Newsletter+CID_361b8d5dd6a63ad29a2e2e410b8a0ead&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Poetry%20of%20Edgar%20Allan%20Poe#about

Here is a lesser known poem by Poe; what a cry for help.

A Dream Within a Dream

By Edgar Allan Poe
  

Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone? 

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

National Poetry Month: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins

God's Grandeur

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

The Best Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems Everyone Should Read

https://interestingliterature.com/2015/10/12/the-best-gerard-manley-hopkins-poems-everyone-should-read/

Top ten things you may not have known about G.M. Hopkins

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/08/top-ten-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-gm-hopkins

National Poetry Month: e e cummings

e e cummings was also an artist. this is a self-portrait.

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]

by e e cummings 

 

anyone lived in a pretty how town

(with up so floating many bells down)

spring summer autumn winter

he sang his didn’t he danced his did.

Women and men(both little and small)

cared for anyone not at all

they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same

sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few

and down they forgot as up they grew

autumn winter spring summer)

that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf

she laughed his joy she cried his grief

bird by snow and stir by still

anyone’s any was all to her

someones married their everyones

laughed their cryings and did their dance

(sleep wake hope and then)they

said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon

(and only the snow can begin to explain

how children are apt to forget to remember

with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess

(and noone stooped to kiss his face)

busy folk buried them side by side

little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep

and more by more they dream their sleep

noone and anyone earth by april

wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)

summer autumn winter spring

reaped their sowing and went their came

sun moon stars rain


e e cummings
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-e-cummings