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:

"Instructions on Not Giving Up"
By Ada Limon

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out

of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s

almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving

their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate

sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees

that really gets to me. When all the shock of white

and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave

the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,

the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin

growing over whatever winter did to us, a return

to the strange idea of continuous living despite

the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,

I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf

unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

-- 

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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