April is National Poetry Month.  Librarians may want to acknowledge MAINE
poets with a display of their books and/ or readings.

The American Academy of Poets website http://www.poets.org/npm/index.cfm
offers activities and a poster.

Besides a display that includes the traditional Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Edward Arlington Robinson, or Edna St. Vincent Millay, you can contact The
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance about a group of Maine poets who will
read  their own poetry during April.. Email [log in to unmask] for more
information on this opportunity. The website is:
http://www.mainewriters.org

Tom Fallon, a Maine poet, has created a website with poems by Maine's Poet
Laureate,  Baron Wormser and Kate Barnes, the first Maine Poet Laureate, as
well as other well known and lesser known Maine poets.
http://www.aopoetry.com/1mepoetsnpm.html.

Of course, librarians will know and find other resources for Maine poets,
but in the meantime, Fallon's list of Maine poets includes:
Richard Aldridge
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Kate Barnes (first Maine Poet Laureate)
Arlo Bates
Louise Bogan
Philip Booth
William Carpenter
Thomas Carper
Robert Chute
Amy Clampitt
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Leo Connellan
H. R. Coursen
Terry Crouch
Holman Day
Fannie Eckstorm
Ted Enslin
Abbie Huston Evans
Chris Fahy
Tom Fallon
Rodney Farmer
Hortense Flexner
Richard Foerster
Marsden Hartley
Barbara Holland
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Constance Hunting
Paul Janeczko
Dorianne Laux
Cary Lawless
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wesley McNair
Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Neal
Mary Palmer
Bern Porter
Patricia Ranzoni
Edward Arlington Robinson
Kenneth Rosen
Ira Sadoff
May Sarton
Betsy Sholl
Wilbert Snow
Ann Stephens
C. J. Stephens
John Tagliabue
Henry Taylor
Lewis Turco
David Walker
E. B. White
Robley Wilson, Jr.
Baron Wormser, Maine Poet Laureate



Sylvia K. Norton
Library, Information, and Technology Services
Maine Department of Education/Maine State Library
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