"BREATH" APRIL 14 One sentence poetry prompt... Epistemic Literary logo Background image is of paper, a fountain pen, an open ink bottle, and a pink rose blossom lying on a table.
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April 14th- BREATH
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National Poetry Month~ April 13
Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso
1905-6 / Oil on canvas / 39 3/8″x32″ / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
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A starlit sky with the pink moon, above the trees, twinkling down. ✨
Burst My Bubble 🫧
You were my stars
You were the sky
You were the moon
I pulled from up high
But no sooner did I pull
You fell too fast
Now here I am
Looking to you
Fragile into grey clouds
Burst my bubble
You left too soon
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What would this series be without your beautiful #poem? #nationalpoetrymonth
for a reread so I thought it would be a good time for me to read it too. A beautiful book—you can’t help but love Odder as a character and I love how much info is in there about otters! I learned so much while being truly delighted. #BookSky #KidLit #NationalPoetryMonth #AnimalRescue
Book 61 of 2026: Odder by @kaaauthor.bsky.social - gorgeous #NovelInVerse all about otters and the otter rescue/rehab program at Monterey Bay aquarium, based on the lives of actual rescued otters! My kids asked me to check it out of the library #BookSky #KidLit #NationalPoetryMonth #AnimalRescue
National Poetry Month~
Paul Laurence Dunbar by Richmond Barthé
1928 / Painted plaster / 18″x7 3/4″x9″ / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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"Pencil" My drawing teacher said: Look, think, make a mark. Look, I told myself. And waited to be marked. Clouds are white but they darken with rain. Even a child blurs them back to little woolies on a hillside, little bundles without legs. Look, my teacher would surely tell me, they’re nothing like that. Like that: the lie. Like that: the poem. She said: Respond to the heaviest part of the figure first. Density is form. That I keep hearing destiny is not a mark of character. Like pilgrimage once morphed to mirage in a noisy room, someone so earnest at my ear. Then marriage slid. Mir-aage, Mir-aage, I heard the famous poet let loose awry into her microphone, triumphant. The figure to be drawn — not even half my age. She’s completely emptied her face for this job of standing still an hour. Look. Okay. But the little dream in there, inside the think that comes next. A pencil in my hand, its secret life is charcoal, the wood already burnt, a sacrifice. —Marianne Boruch
"Pencil" by Marianne Boruch #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth
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The privilege of opening for @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social & her tremendous "The Tinder Sonnets" launch #toronto @bookhugpress.bsky.social last week at #burdockmusichall #nationalpoetrymonth #spring2026
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Two picture books: Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha Archer + A Poem Grows Inside You, story by Katey Howes, pictures by Heather Brockman Lee
For today’s #NationalPoetryMonth picks, here are two #picturebooks that encourage kids to find poetry in the world around them & within themselves 🐿️🪴💚
Love these beautiful books by Micha Archer, the late great @kateywrites.bsky.social, & @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social!
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Natural Supernatural Love, Poems by J.J. Brown - book cover. In print, paperback and Kindle, 2nd edition 2025. For #NationalPoetryMonth.
Light a candle this quiet evening to read by
Watch the shadows cling to the wall
as people have done evenings in ages past
Lean against the bookcase, imagine each volume as a person
Take one from the shelf tonight to leaf through
captured thoughts of lives refusing to end
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So happy to be a part of @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social’s wonderful poetry series as part of #NationalPoetryMonth!
Check out my new poem “Revising the Blueprint of Normal” which Karen turned into a gorgeous little video!
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Day 13:
I wrote this poem an hour ago.
"unburdened"
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So, I forgot to post day 12 here yesterday.
Day 12:
I wrote this back in October 2025.
"complex beauty"
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"Peace is always beautiful,
The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
The myth of heaven indicates the soul;
The soul is always beautiful—it appears more or it appears less—it comes or it lags behind..."
Walt Whitman
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#bluetue #coloraday
three dark pink tulips I got a couple weeks ago; the edges of the petals are faded and fringed, about ready to fall; light green stems and leaves below; wooden wall and another plant in the background
color drained
frayed and grayed at life's edge
beauty remains
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Today's #NationalPoetryMonth selection is an excerpt from Nomad: A Ghazanet by Samyak Shertok from his collection No Rhododendron. Find limited signed copies of this collection on our shelves in store or online at SquareBooks.com.
Love in such a way that people are blind to any form of color.
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April 13th-COLOR
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What does poetry reveal about our world—and what’s possible beyond it? For the 30th anniversary of National Poetry Month, we’ve curated a reading list exploring poetry’s role across culture, history, and community. buff.ly/fUMKXQa #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry
Poem - 'For the young who want to' - by Marge Piercy
Writing poetry is like playing golf. For most it will cost us much more than we'll earn & it is difficult, even with much practice, to be great
A handful of us will be a McIlroy
This Ars Poetica reminds us ‘you have to like it better than being loved’
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The color of a cerulean sky melts under the intensity of the sapphire gaze of his burning blue eyes.
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April 13th-COLOR
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Poster from the Academy of American Poets, with an illustration of a child in a doorway reaching for a sword, surrounded by sunlight and animals. Text on and around the poster says: The Paper Cat Bookshop celebrates “Even if the darkness precedes and follows We have a chance, briefly, to shine.” -Arthur Sze National Poetry Month April 2026 Design & Illustration by Alfredo Richner Lines excerpted from the poem, "The Chance" by Arthur Sze, from The Redshifting Web: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1998).
Image featuring the covers of 20 books of poetry.
It’s #NationalPoetryMonth everybody! Calm your mind and/or feed your soul with a new #book of #poetry from a beloved poet or a new voice. For suggestions, visit: bookshop.org/lists/april-...
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The sanguine color of passion seemed to pass them by forlorn and melancholy as they sailed past one another on the rainy night.
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April 13th-COLOR
Impress that special someone in your life by writing them a love poem! Learn how in this single-session in-person class, Love Is a Many Poem-ed Thing.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month Lago ... Entre montañas áridas las aguas prisioneras reposan, centellean, como un cielo caído. Una mitad violeta, otra de plata, escama, resplandor indolente, soñoliento entre nácares. Nada sino los montes y la luz entre brumas; agua y cielo reposan, pecho a pecho, infinitos. ... Lake ... Between arid mountains the imprisoned waters rest, sparkle, like a fallen sky. One half violet, the other silver, a fish-scale, a lazy glittering, drowsing in mother-of-pearl. Nothing but mountains and the light in the mist; water and sky rest, breast to breast, infinite. ... - Octavio Paz, Mexican poet (1914-1998) excerpt from "Lake," transl. Rachel Benson from Twentieth-century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, ed. by Stephen Tapscott (images: New City Library logo; background photo of "arid landscape with mountains and a lake under cloudy sky" courtesy of Maximilian Brand on Unsplash)
Happy #NationalPoetryMonth!
Here's Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz's poem, "Lago" ("Lake"), from _Twentieth-century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology_, ed. by Stephen Tapscott.
Check out this anthology and many others like it for FREE with your library card!
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April is a celebration of poetry. Let’s celebrate 30 years of inspiring poets like Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, and Langston Hughes. Their powerful words of emotion have impacted our society.
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