Every day is a national day devoted to a food or drink, a civil right’s issue or achievement, or even as it is on April 24th, National Poem in Your Pocket Day.
Considering April is National Poetry Month, the eighteenth of the month is a day that American’s can carry a favorite poem in their pocket and share it with others, National Day Calendar stated.
According to the Academy of American Poets, the annual pocket-poem day is celebrated on Twitter. Use the hashtag #pocketpoem to share a favorite poem with followers.
In 2002, the Office of the Mayor and the New York City Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education started the celebration of Poem in Your Pocket Day, stated the Academy of American Poets.
Six years later, in 2008, the Academy of American Poets made the day into a national occasion. Each year community schools, bookstores, libraries, parks and workplaces have open readings of the poems.
In honor of National Poetry Month, USA Today listed 10 notable lines of poetry from American writers and suggested that one may be suitable to carry in your pocket on National Poetry in Your Pocket Day.
Some of these famous lines of poetry include :
“The wind that blows is all that any body knows.” - Henry David Thoreau, Men Say They Know Many Things
“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me”- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
And perhaps what I will carry in my pocket on April 24th:
“I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.”- Mary Oliver, Starlings in Winter
The Academy of American Poets published a book Poem in Your Pocket as pictured.