Poetry online

April is poetry month, so as the spring brings color and life gradually to homes and libraries across the country, so does a celebration of poetry explodes with color and life across the Internet. One especially interesting project this year is "Thirty Poems for Thirty Days" which will add a new unpublished poem to the Gottabook site every day during April. Poets from Arnold Adoff to Jane Yolen will be represented, so we can expect to see lively language and delightful rhythms to cheer each day. Poetry is one of the oldest forms of creative expression from the days when bards sang their poems to listeners around a fire, through the first days of written language, printed books, recorded recitations and now to the Internet. Media techniques come and go, but the basic charms of language last forever and will enchant humans not matter what the format--print, audio, digital. Let's all enjoy its continuing life.