Poem in your Pocket

April 29 is national Poem in your Pocket day!
(and just in time for our thursday meetings, too.)
Take a copy of a poem with you to have, read, and share.

Poetry Prize!

I couldn't wait to share the good news I just learned.

This month is National Poetry Month!  Yay!

And, since it's National Poetry Month, the BYU bookstore will be offering a drawing.  Just go to the General Book desk or the Children's Books desk and recite a poem and you will be entered in a drawing for a free poetry book!

Also, in honor of National Poetry Month, the bookstore will be having an Open Mic Poetry Reading night on April 6th and April 13th from 6:30-7:30pm.  I think this would be a fun event for our poetry club to attend!

Finally, the bookstore is offering poetry books at reduced prices this month.  So, if you want a poetry book, now is the time to get one!

(And no, this is NOT an April Fools Joke.  Check out the link above if you don't believe me.)

Anthem Written Upon the First Anniversary of the Curiously Poetic Altoids

Many the meters,
Abundant the rhymes
That our pens put forth
In that golden year's time.

Noble the feeling
And witty the verse
That our hearts sang out.
Oh the sorrow! the mirth!

So subtle the humor,
So cunning the wit,
So artful the rhymers
Who imbued them therewith

That perhaps the generations to come
Shall remember them for it,
Saying, "Those were the days
And those were true poets."

Yes, perhaps our words
Will have earned us a place
In the pantheon of poesie
Full of grandeur and grace.

But probably not.
And it's better, too,
Since naught could result
But the ruin of the true.

And already we have
All that we need
--our friends drawn the closer,
our poetic thoughts freed.

So we'll sing on for the ages
For the art, for the rhyme,
And we'll sing for each other --
Since each other's just fine.