Poem in Your Pocket Day Goes Mobile

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This Thursday, April 30, is the second national Poem In Your Pocket Day. It's a simple idea - select a poem you love and carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends on that day. Poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores.

Of course, in this digital age, there are other ways to carry and share a poem. One way to celebrate the day is with your cell phone. The entire collection of over 2,500 poems on Poets.org, as well as hundreds of biographies and essays, is also available in a mobile format which provides free and direct access to poetry in the palm of a hand.

To reach the mobile site, simply go to www.poets.org/m. (You can preview the mobile site from your computer too, but it will look a bit odd if you're not on a mobile device.)

Designed using Web 2.0 Internet Standards and Apple's Developers Guidelines, the site is optimized for the iPhone, and formatted for effortless access on most mobile devices. Now, for the first time, mobile users have unlimited access to the rich resources of Poets.org.

Poems can be browsed by author, title, occasion, or form, and searched easily by keyword. You can grab a poem at any time to fill a spare moment, woo a darling, toast a friend, find solace, or recite a few immortal lines.

This new mobile archive offers unlimited access to Poets.org in time for this National Poetry Month, which was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996.

Here are some ideas from poets.org of how you might get involved:


  1. Do a "poems for pockets" giveaway in your school or workplace

  2. Post pocket-sized verses in public places (guerrilla poetry)

  3. Handwrite some lines on the back of your business cards

  4. Distribute bookmarks with your favorite immortal lines

  5. Add a poem to your email footer

  6. Post a poem on your blog or social networking page

  7. Project a poem on a wall, inside or out

  8. Text a poem to friends


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