Title: Skagit River Poetry Festival
Location: La Conner, Washington, US
Description: The Skagit River Poetry Project’s mission is to brings poets into classrooms to promote literacy, an appreciation of language and participation in culturally diverse communities. Students are the heart of the initiative, which also promotes a biennial poetry festival that welcomes diverse and well-known poets from around the world.
Learn more about the organization and festival here.
Start Date: May 17, 2012
End Date: May 20, 2012
Description: National Poetry Month is a month-long celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and observed since 1999 in Canada. As the Academy of American Poets states, National Poetry Month is meant to widen the attention of individuals and the media to the art of poetry, to living poets, to the nation’s complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern. National Poetry Month events and initiatives increase the visibility and availability of poetry in popular culture while acknowledging and celebrating poetry’s ability to sustain itself in the many places where it is practiced and appreciated.