Poem in Your Pocket Day

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    Five Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day

    April 26, 2017 Anna Hernandez
    It’s that time of the year again, National Poetry Month! Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 27, and in celebration, we offer these five poems to read, share, and carry in your pocket for later as we ce…

  • Choosing the Nobel, farewell Tadeusz Różewicz, and more

    May 2, 2014 Kaitlin Hawkins
    It was another great week, filled with announcements from various literary prizes. Below, we’ve provided links to announcements about the Best Translated Book Awards, the Lambda Literary Prize, and Or…
  • A tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Tributes to Gabo, influential Chinese poems, and more

    April 25, 2014 Kaitlin Hawkins
    This week was full of celebrations, once again. Though we said goodbye to Gabriel García Márquez, literary readers, writers, and publishers around the globe celebrated his exceptional life. We also c…
  • Poem in Your Pocket Day. Photo by andifansnet/Flickr. Adaption by Jen Rickard Blair.

    Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day

    April 23, 2014 WLT
     Photo by andifansnet/Flickr. Adaption by Jen Rickard Blair. Poem in your Pocket Day is tomorrow (April 24th), and you can celebrate by carrying your favorite poem with you and sharing it with others…

  • Tomorrow Is Poem in Your Pocket Day

    April 17, 2013 WLT
    Tomorrow is National Poem in Your Pocket Day, and we are providing a printable PDF of “Words” by Dana Gioia, and the download comes paired with the Spanish translation by José Emilio Pacheco. The poem…