National Poetry Month 2010 (NPM 2010)
April is National Poetry Month! That’s right, April is the month that we celebrate the beauty and depth of what language can do. The Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in 1996 with the hope of raising awareness and appreciation for poetry in our culture. Poetry is an art–a literary art. In it we evoke emotions, passions, and sensations that the canvas of prose does not allow us too. Khalil Gibran once said, “Poetry is a deal of [...]
