Poetry-palooza for National Poetry Month

April is NATIONAL POETRY MONTH and to celebrate poets, poetry and printed books, I'm hoping to post many poems here this month....

Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. *****************************************************   Here is a link to the Academy Of American Poets ---  a wonderful resource for poems and Poetry online                       "Modern Book Printing",  fourth sculpture  (from six) of the  Berliner Walk of Ideas  in Germany.