> >Subject: National Poetry Month > >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 > >