Saturday, April 11, 2009

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. Create a better day by reading a poem! There are plenty of poems all over the online universe, but Sixteen Rivers is a great place to narrow your search. Check out out all of our books at http://www.sixteenrivers.org/books.asp. There are lots of poems on the site to sample and enjoy. Be our guest.

Poetry in the Wider World

One of Dan Bellm's poems from Practice ("Elegy/in advance/do not hasten") appears in the new anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease, edited by Holly J. Hughes, with a forward by Tess Gallagher, just out from Kent State University Press. More info at http://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/.