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April abundance & poetry month!

By Rachel Dacus | March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 by Rachel Dacus

Abundance in Springtime — and National Poetry Month. April is a delicious combination, offering bounties of beauty, nature, lyricism, and fun. Find a walking trail near you and dream a poem to celebrate! Poetry Month The Academy of American Poets launched this annual celebration of the art in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events…

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On Poetry Jeans & Noticing Something Closely

By Rachel Dacus | April 24, 2015 by Rachel Dacus

Here are some fresh ideas for National Poetry Month at Tweetspeak, the Best in Poetry & Poetic things. Including photographing your poet jeans in a creative way. I think if I do that, I will have to write about it. Also from Tweetspeak, some unusual poem prompts. How has your poetry month been going? Mine is rich with poetry everywhere I turn — for reading, listening, and writing. I didn’t go for the poem-a-day exercise,…

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Hello National Poetry Month! (April fool!!) (No, not April fool)

By Rachel Dacus | March 31, 2015 by Rachel Dacus

April, the month of showers, taxes, fools, and poetry, is upon us. Why does that combination seem just right? Fools and poetry, at least. In the Sufi tradition, a wise fool is a disguise for a Sufi holy man who might get his head separated from his shoulders if he were overtly who he is, so he plays the fool with poetry and jests that are really something deeper. Fun fact of April 1: Did…