National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.
Here are twelve poems that Glossophilia has collected over the past year in its “Poetry in Motion” series: click on the hyperlinks to see the image above in full.
“Remembering Summer” “The Owl“
“Notes On Longing” “My words to you”
“Train Rising out of the Sea” “Dew”
“Poem” “Leave It All Up to Me”
“The Moment” “Dew”
“One” “Poetry is Hard”
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