APRIL IS POETRY MONTH 2023
April is Poetry Month and Margin Notes will be featuring ideas for celebrating poetry this month…and all year long.
We’ve updated our Poetry Month Resource Round-Up. You can access it here.
For poetry writing inspiration, enjoy I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver
I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
as you are reading
you feel it
and as you read
you keep feeling it
and though it be my story
it will be common,
though it be singular
it will be known to you
so that by the end
you will think—
no, you will realize—
that it was all the while
yourself arranging the words,
that it was all the time
words that you yourself,
out of your own heart
had been saying.
To inspire you reading, enjoy Grant Snider’s comic Understanding Poetry
You will also find poetry ideas in our Craft Studio and Try This Tomorrow posts.
Happy Poetry Month!