National Poetry Month Giveaway for Readers
I hope everyone has enjoyed some of the National Poetry Month Blog Tour, traveled to new blogs, learned a bit about poetry, and found some poets you'd like to try.
Today, I'm hosting a giveaway for Suzanne Frischkorn's newest collection, Girl on a Bridge. Check out these two videos of her reading two of her poems, Bees and Indiscretion of an American Wife, 1954.
Also please check out this poem from her collection:
The First Signs
And forsythia tumbles over the fence wild with yellow--
When I was seven a wasp landed on my lip drawn by the sweetness of my mother's red lipstick
--while purple flagstones split with grass.
The same day a child next door squeezed six new kittens dead. That's when I knew--
There are two shades of still.
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Giveaway Details for Girl on a Bridge:
1. Leave a comment on which of these poems you liked best or if you think YouTube videos make poetry more appealing to you as a reader.
2. Tweet, Blog, Facebook, or spread the word about the giveaway and leave a link here.
Deadline: May 7, 2010, at 11:59 PM EST
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Don't forget to visit the next stops on the National Poetry Month Blog Tour at Jen’s Book Thoughts and Linus’s Blanket.