Lansing Online News is celebrating National Poetry Month for the fourth year in a row starting today Monday April 1 and once again we’ve lined up some amazing poets. Each day in April we will be posting a poem/a/day from local, Michigan and national poets. We are still slotting some poems in so if you would like to submit a poem of any style or theme get cracking.
The Poem/a/Day project was started not only in recognition of National Poetry Month, but also to honor Michigan poet and journalist Edgar Guest who during his 40 year career at the Detroit Free Press wrote more than 15,000 poems for publication in the daily newspaper. He never missed a deadline and apparently never had writer’s block. Read more about Guest here
When we started the event four years ago Stephanie Glazier who was still an undergraduate at MSU at the time provided the first poem. Read that inaugural poem in our annual event here. The poem “Why I Hate You Pat Robertson” still grabs you by the throat and that’s exactly what the poet Stephanie Glazier, now acting director of MSUs Poetry Center, wanted to accomplish. In the interim, Glazier has graduated from Michigan State University and received her MFA from Antioch College. Glazier is shown on the left at a recent filming of the literary graffiti at Morrill Hall on the MSU campus.
You can submit your poem to Lansing Online News by emailing castanier AT sbcglobal.net. Please put the word poem in the subject line. By emailing a poem to us verifies that we have the rights to publish the poem online and to illustrate it.
Also include a short (three or four line) biography of yourself, include your website URL or Facebook page if you would like a link included. You may also provide artwork or a photograph to illustrate the poem but that is not a requirement.
Artists photographers and illustrators may also submit artwork to illustrate poems. Email us with POEM ART in the sibject line.
And get ready to tweet at #LONPoem. You can submit as many 140 word tweet poems as you wish and also comment on poetry in general. Poets to your meter, get ready, get set, go. Check out today’s poem, a dark haiku by Kristan Tetens who works at Lansing Community College.
