APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. BE PART OF THE CELEBRATION!

Bring a poem you love, by any author (including yourself). If you’re a musician, perform a song you love or come just to listen!

Celebrate community, the human spirit and this place/planet that we love with your friends, family & neighbors.

As part of a national movement (initiated by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky), this event brings communities together every April across the USA by inviting neighbors to bring their favorite poems to read aloud (or sing aloud) in a relaxed poetry celebration.

The Favorite Poem Project in Rensselaerville has often drawn more than 50 readers (including adults and children of all ages), and poems have ranged from the hilarious to the somber, from poems by children’s poet Shel Silverstein, to selections from Tennyson and Keats, to poems by 20th & 21st century poets Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton, Tracy K. Smith, Mary Oliver, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Claudia Rankine among many, many others, to song lyrics (often performed), as well as original poems written and performed by local poets.

For questions or to sign up, email info@rensselaervillelibrary.org

Admission is free. Refreshements will be available.

Sponsored by the Rensselaerville Library & Conkling Hall

What is a poem?

If it makes your body feel so cold no fire can ever warm you, and makes you feel as if the top of your head was taken off, it is a poem. - Emily Dickinson