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National Poetry Month
Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and—of course—poets, marking poetry’s important place in our lives. |
Poem-A-Day Project
The Annual Poem-A-Day Project celebrates National Poetry Month with a new poem by a local poet for each of April’s 30 days. Launched in 2017 and curated by poet Tom Corrado, the Rensselaerville Poem-a-Day Project has showcased 270 poems by 141 local poets, ringing in over 20,000+ pageviews. |
2022 Community Poem
There's A Poem In This Place...
On April 30, 2022, Rensselaerville Library invited Community members to contribute to a Community Poem at the annual Favorite Poem Project celebration. They were prompted to add 1-2 lines to the phrase "There's a poem in this place..." borrowed from Amanda Gorman's 2021 Inaugural Poem.
There's A Poem In This Place...
On April 30, 2022, Rensselaerville Library invited Community members to contribute to a Community Poem at the annual Favorite Poem Project celebration. They were prompted to add 1-2 lines to the phrase "There's a poem in this place..." borrowed from Amanda Gorman's 2021 Inaugural Poem.
2021 Favorite Poem Project
In partnership with our friends at Conkling Hall, the 2021 Favorite Poem Project gathering occurred online via YouTube.
25 poet-participants read (and sang) both favorite and original poems. And because the event was virtual, participants were able to share their poems from their homes in Maine, Vermont and Virginia, and attendees tuned in from as far away as Ireland!
You can tune in from wherever you are, too! Watch the video of the whole event.
In partnership with our friends at Conkling Hall, the 2021 Favorite Poem Project gathering occurred online via YouTube.
25 poet-participants read (and sang) both favorite and original poems. And because the event was virtual, participants were able to share their poems from their homes in Maine, Vermont and Virginia, and attendees tuned in from as far away as Ireland!
You can tune in from wherever you are, too! Watch the video of the whole event.
2021 Community Poem
Remember to Pause, Pause to Remember: A Community Poem
In April 2021, Rensselaerville Library invited Community members to contribute to a Community Poem, a compilation of verse written to commemorate the year gone by.
The verses, submitted by 21 poets aged 7-70+, were compiled into a poem titled, I Remember. It was premiered at the Library's May 29 Cocktail Party. Read the poem and the unedited verses.
Remember to Pause, Pause to Remember: A Community Poem
In April 2021, Rensselaerville Library invited Community members to contribute to a Community Poem, a compilation of verse written to commemorate the year gone by.
The verses, submitted by 21 poets aged 7-70+, were compiled into a poem titled, I Remember. It was premiered at the Library's May 29 Cocktail Party. Read the poem and the unedited verses.
2020 My Favorite Poem Project
In 2020, in the face of social distancing requirements due to COVID-19,we asked people to send us their favorite poems by email to be posted on our website and Facebook pages rather than staging a 2-hour event. Each day in April, a My Favorite Poem was posted.
In 2020, in the face of social distancing requirements due to COVID-19,we asked people to send us their favorite poems by email to be posted on our website and Facebook pages rather than staging a 2-hour event. Each day in April, a My Favorite Poem was posted.
Poetry Month 2015, friends and neighbors far and wide grew the community poem "Song of Ourselves".