2016-poster2 National Poetry Month 2016 is off to a busy start. To the left see this year's Academy of American Poet's poster. I wasn't crazy about it so I didn't purchase one. But you can purchase all their yearly posters.

I'm participating in NaPoWriMo again this year on Hello Poetry but I'll be doing the daily prompts for the first time. My over-arching add-on is that all the poems should be about this year's election cycle. I'm calling it 30 Poems About the Same Thing. It's been challenging to be balanced and take a larger-than-partisan view.

Bustle Magazine just posted a good list of 9 ways to add more poetry into your life. The Academy of American poets also posted their 30 ways to celebrate list (including some good essay links).Great

Julie Wiskirchen also came across this great poetry website while attending BinderCon last month in Los Angeles http://poetryhasvalue.com/, a site which tracks markets that pay for poetry.

Don't forget that National Poetry Month has a capstone holiday on April 28 which is Great Poetry Reading Day. Some sites that detail the holiday:

To clarify, this is not Crappy Poetry Reading Day so make sure to find something Tony the Tiger would be proud to read.