April 1 – April 30
Arizona PBS celebrates Poetry Month
Celebrate Poetry Month with our Poets Showcase featuring spoken word artists like Qosmic Qandence. Listen to powerful spoken word pieces, access activities for kids and watch featured specials presented by Arizona PBS.
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Mother and son who are both poet laureates work to inspire others
Becoming a poet laureate is a coveted role and rare honor. Rarer still is having two laureates in the same family. Hear how a mother-son duo is working to bring poetry to a wider audience.
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Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind
After tragedy strikes, Vermont poet Ruth Stone retreats to the margins of the literary world, working tirelessly to provide for her children, and transformed her intense grief into poetry, using simple, startling language. This is the story of her life and work.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with a diamante poem activity for the classroom
April 10
Introduce students to a new type of poetry to get their creative juices flowing: diamantes, structured poems with seven lines that form the shape of a diamond.
