April is #NPM18 - National Poetry Month.
~Leonard Cohen
It's Poetry Friday today, hosted by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at her Poem Farm! Thanks, Amy!
As you might see in the comments, Amy and Clarion HMH have offered to send a copy of Amy's new book, With My Hands to a lucky commenter of this post! Hurrah for making things! Thanks for this, too, Amy!
Of interest: See the page on the bar above for the Progressive Poem's schedule of poets, hosted by Irene Latham at Live Your Poem. It's Irene's day this poetry Friday, and mine after. Yikes!
And, see what many are doing for Poetry Month, by looking HERE at Jama Rattigan's post at Jama's Alphabet Soup.
My goal for Poetry Month: A haiku diary that may include other forms related to haiku, like haibun, haiga. monoku or renga. I have enjoyed studying about and writing in these forms in past Aprils and alongside other's who've given a challenge in this form. And, I look forward to seeing what parts of this month I will choose to collect in a diary. My first poem speaks of why I am handwriting the poems.
April’s garden,
growing poems
on lined pages
Linda Baie
