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>Subject: National Poetry Month
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>Dear OWP Members,
>
>On behalf of the Commission on the Teaching of Poetry, Bonner Slayton and I
>would like to encourage  you to promote poetry especially during April
>which is
>National Poetry Month.  We have attached a list of websites that you may
>wish
>to visit.  We would like to specifically point out the first ever Poetry
>Read-a-Thon sponsored through the Academy of American Poets--Poetry.org.
>If
>teachers participate they will receive a free anthology and may also submit
>student
>responses. If selected, the student responses will be posted on the
>Academy's
>website.  To learn more about this, please visit the poetry.org website
>listed in the attachment. For more information about National Poetry Month
>please
>visit  the following website: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/47
>
>Thanks and hope you had a great Spring Break.
>
>Danny Wade and Bonner Slayton
>Co-Chairs, The Commission on the Teaching of Poetry
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>