Poem in Your Pocket Day is Thursday, April 24, 2014!

This is just a short post to remind everyone that tomorrow, Thursday, April 24, is Poem in Your Pocket Day 2014! Poem in Your Pocket Day was first celebrated in April 2002, when New York City incorporated it into the city’s National Poetry Month Celebration. Since then, this literary “holiday” has taken off, and now Poem in Your Pocket Day is celebrated each April in classrooms, cities, libraries, and bookstores nationwide. The idea is simple—choose a favorite poem, or compose one of your own, and carry it in your pocket for the day. Share it with friends, colleagues, family, etc., to spread the joy that poetry brings into our world every day!

 

For fabulous resources for celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day, visit the Academy of American Poets website here.

Here are a few more of my favorite poetry resources:

• Bruce Lansky’s Giggle Poetry website: http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
• Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt’s Poetry 4 Kids website: http://www.poetry4kids.com/
• Poetry Foundation website: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
• Famous Poets and Poems website: http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/

Children’s author Beatrice Schenk de Regniers wrote a sweet poem about carrying a poem in your pocket. Here is the first stanza of her poem:

Keep A Poem In Your Pocket

By Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
 

Keep a poem in your pocket

And a picture in your head

And you'll never feel lonely

At night when you're in bed.

To read the rest of this poem, click here. 

 

Have a happy Poem in Your Pocket Day, and Happy Writing!