Great Poetry Reading Day

When Celebrated

Always on April 28th

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About the Holiday

Great Poetry Reading Day celebrates great poetry and the great poets that write them. It's a perfect day to read, listen to, or write a poem. While there are many different types of poetry some of the more popular ones include Ballad, Free Verse, Haiku, Limerick, Ode, and Sonnet. Some well known poets include Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Homer, Langston Hughes, Geoffrey Chaucer, T S Eliot, and William Wordsworth.

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