All over the place, it's National Poetry Month. It's April---that means autism awareness as well as poetry.
Scholars at Pulaski Tech, the two year college with campuses in North Little Rock, Little Rock and Benton, organized "Chalk the Walk" a visual commemoration of the literary realm's finest poets.
Students used colored chalk and drafted lines of poetry from well known and obscure poets. As is with every college and university, Pulaski Tech's English Department holds a number of professors with strong poetry backgrounds.
Some professors are integrating technology and poetry in their odes to National Poetry Month. Blogger and teacher Mary Beth Hertz shared a few websites for poets to draft their work in her edutopia blog.
National Poetry Month inspired NaPoWriMmo (National Poetry Writing Month). NaPoWrimo participants (there only a little more than 500 on Facebook) are writing one poem per day this month.
It's already Day 5 of NaPoWriMo. You can get more info here.
Poetry often tells stories, plot, antagonists, protagonists, themes and all, in an incredibly economic space. Rap music and hip hop are often referred to as poetry, but often the verses in hip rhymes are iambic pentameter and more often rhyming couplets.
Poetry is an art form with rules and structure. For a little help with poetic form and technique, check out this site for poets, poets.org.
For other literary events in Arkansas this month, check out the Arkansas Literary Festival's schedule of events April 18 - 21, 2013.
How did your college campus celebrate National Poetry Month? Send pics to @AnissaFord (twitter).
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