Celebrate National Poetry Month at SUNY Plattsburgh!

[Regan Levitte]

April is a time for rhythm, rhyme, and raw expression! Join us as we
celebrate National Poetry Month with a daily poem AND think about attending
or performing at the English Department and Learning Center’s Open Mic
Poetry Reading (also sponsored by CAS and The Plattsburgh Alumni
Association)!

When: April 30th, 4:00 p.m.
Where: Krinovitz Recital Hall
Who: You!
Sign up here: Open Mic Poetry Reading <https://forms.gle/yUUKMc6kjZFavhwFA>.

Poem of the Day:

“Sonnet for the Chickens”

By Tom Healy

The picture of elegance, my grandfather.

I wanted his photograph in the dictionary.

Alone of the men I knew as a kid,

he always wore a shirt with a collar,

always shined his shoes. Equanimity

in a family on the run from itself.

He amazed me once with a cardboard box

of baby chicks, each in a small square as if

he’d waved a wand over a carton of eggs.

A fuzz of feathers, beaks and fragile lives.

No more afraid than all of us, he said.

Just sit with them, tell them apart, listen.

Only if you see someone, can you become

someone. Long gone, he still is and they are.
-- 

REGAN LEVITTE, M.A.
(she/her/they)
Assistant Director & Writing Specialist
Claude J. Clark Learning Center CTE Advisory Board Member Writing Across
Curriculum Committee Member
103 Feinberg Library
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
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