National Poetry Month, or, How I’m Learning To Expand My Horizons

From poets.org: 

“National Poetry Month each April is the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K-12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, bloggers, and, of course, poets marking poetry’s important place in our culture and our lives.

While we celebrate poets and poetry year-round, the Academy of American Poets was inspired by the successful celebrations of Black History Month (February) and Women’s History Month (March), and founded National Poetry Month in April 1996 with an aim to:

• highlight the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets,
• encourage the reading of poems,
• assist teachers in bringing poetry into their classrooms,
• increase the attention paid to poetry by national and local media,
• encourage increased publication and distribution of poetry books, and
• encourage support for poets and poetry.”

Which is all well and good! I’m here for it. But…honestly? I hate poetry.

In Which I Do A Thing: #TheReadingQuest

SO! It’s been a minute since I posted anything (real life sucks, never join the real world, kids). And, since I was kinda sorta booted from my DnD campaign, I suddenly have so much more free time! There’s this awesome challenge taking place over on Goodreads called #TheReadingQuest and it combines the great fun of following a quest in an RPG and reading some pretty awesome books!