Pitching Poetry

It's National Poetry Month.

There are all kinds of ways to celebrate. You could write a spring haiku.

This is a good one for April, from the Haiku Society:

spring planting
her refusal
to compromise
(Frogpond XIX:1 Anthony J. Pupello, 1996)



You could celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day.

You could attend a poetry reading. Here are a few poetry readings and book signings for Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: Fifty Years of Minnesota Poetry.

Wednesday, April 11 at 7:00 PM – Minneapolis
Mill City Museum
704 S. Second Street, Minneapolis
Cosponsored by the Loft Literary Center, the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, and Mill City Museum.
Free reading and signing featuring Robert Bly, Bill Holm, Michael Dennis Browne, Heid Erdrich, Deborah Keenan, Wang Ping, and Angela Shannon, with editor Robert Hedin as emcee

Wednesday, April 25 at 7:00 PM – St. Paul
St. Anthony Park Library
2245 Como Avenue, St. Paul
Cosponsored by Micawber’s Books and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library
Free reading, signing, and reception featuring Ray Gonzalez, Leslie Adrienne Miller, John Minczeski, Jim Moore, and Joyce Sutphen, with editor Robert Hedin as emcee
Reception to follow at Micawber’s Books

Sunday, May 13 at 2:00 PM – St. Paul
Swedenborgian Church
170 Virginia Avenue, St. Paul
Sponsored by Common Good Books
Free reading and signing featuring Patricia Hampl, Phebe Hanson, Michael Dennis Browne, and Mai Neng Moua, with editor Robert Hedin and Garrison Keillor

You can catch me pitching the Mill City event and the book on Kare-11 Sunrise and Kare-11 Showcase, 6:15 a.m. and 10 a.m.,(sometime before the segment on National Fondue Day) this Wednesday, April 11. Have sympathy. I'll have slept fitfully the night before and been up before the birds to make that first studio appearance. And I hear it will be snowing that morning, too. Ah, for the love of words.