7 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. If you think poetry’s “not your thing”, you might be surprised to find out you already enjoy it, you just didn’t know it was poetry. Stretch your creative mind and embrace poetry in one of its many forms during National Poetry Month. Here are 7 ways you can celebrate:

1. Borrow a book of poetry from the library. The great thing about poetry books, you don’t need to read them cover-to-cover to enjoy them. Find a few poems that speak to you.

• We have a few (hundred) books to pick from, start in the 811’s…

2. Check out a CD and read the song lyrics. Songwriting is a form of poetry. Don’t know where to start? Try:

• John Lennon
• Bob Dylan
• Kanye West

3. Read a novel told in verse. Don’t know where to start? Try:

• The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by  Sonya Sones