April is National Poetry Month!
The English, Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language Department is celebrating National Poetry Month with its annual Campus Poetry Project.*
Keep your eye out for full-size literary figures throughout campus that are great to use for “selfies,” as well as campus-wide poetry banners and lawn signs.
This year’s Campus Poetry Project includes a new Blackboard page* with poetry, writing prompts, Threads artwork, and poetry links; poems included in The Hudsonian and on campus digital monitors, plus an American Sign Language collaboration with Melissa Kate Adams-Silva, who teaches ASL.
Let’s begin the celebration of poetry with the following:
There is no Frigate like a Book (1263)
by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.
This poem is in the public domain.
https://poets.org/poem/there-no-frigate-book-1263
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890. (Source: Poets.org)
*To view the Campus Poetry Project in Blackboard, click the “Community” tab, use “Organization Search” (bottom left corner) to find “Campus Poetry Project” and enroll.
Jennifer Austin
Assistant Professor of English
Published: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:10:15 +0000 by j.austin