Posted October 7, 2020
(First Wednesday of October)
There are a fair few cool poetry-based holidays: Poem in Your Pocket Day, Poetry and the Creative Mind Day, Poet Laureate Day, National Haiku Poetry Day, Poets’ Day, Bad Poetry Day, Limerick Day, Black Poetry Day, and Poetry at Work Day.
Well, here’s one more!
Today, find a few times to recite a few lines of some favorite poems.
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| With some frequency, I am in a situation in which “nothing gold can stay” pops into my mind. Today, I’ll let it fly out of my mouth! |
Write short poems on sticky notes and leave them in unexpected places. If you have access to a public bulletin board, pin a short poem up there!
Post a poem on social media.
Design your dinner to lend itself to a poem – and read it at the start of your meal.
Print out poems that mean a lot to you – or maybe poems you’ve written! – and send them to your grandparents in a card.
Or…what other random acts of poetry can you think of?
Also on this date:
Birthdays of musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Toni Braxton
You Matter to Me Day
Anniversary of the “discovery” of Catalina Island
Physicist Niels Bohr’s birthday
Anniversary of the invention of the bar code
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African Penguin Awareness Day
Merchant Holiday in Antigua and Barbuda
Birthday of “the mother of Dutch dance,” Mascha ter Weeme
LED Light Day
Balloons Around the World Day
(First Wednesday of October)
National Kale Day
(First Wednesday of October)
National Pumpkin Seed Day
(First Wednesday of October)
Plan ahead:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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October holidays
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October birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in October
And here are my Pinterest boards for:
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November holidays
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November birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in November