Celebrations: Poem In Your Pocket Day

Posted by Steph Auteri

 

Today is apparently Poem in Your Pocket day, in celebration of National Poetry Month. You are to...um...carry a poem in your pocket all day long, and share it with those you come across. You can write your own (though my days of writing bad poetry are long behind me) or carry around a favorite.

I'm personally a fan of Wislawa Szymborska's poetry, and have always loved Emily Dickinson's "A word is dead/when it is said/some say./I say it just/begins to live/that day." But if you thinkyou need a little bit of help:

 

[$14.95, Poets.org]

Poem in Your Pocket has 200 poems, organized by theme, that you can tear out and share.

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Posted Apr 30 2009, 09:46 AM
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Steph Auteri is a freelance writer and proofreader who has been published in Publishers Weekly, New York Press, Playgirl, and other bastions of fine writing. She maintains a professional site -- stephiswrite.com -- and also blogs about freelancing over at Freelancedom.com. You can keep up on her day-to-day by visiting her Twitter page, http://twitter.com/stephauteri.

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