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#                 A Celebration of Poetry in the Collections      

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day, and April has been proclaimed National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets. In recognition, explore our poetry-related collections and listen to poetry with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
  -          National Portrait Gallery        Phillis Wheatley 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Maya Angelou, Algonquin Hotel, New York, NY, 1987 
-          National Portrait Gallery        W. E. B. Du Bois 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Anne Sexton 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Maya Angelou, Algonquin Hotel, New York, NY, 1987 
-          National Portrait Gallery        John Updike 
-          National Portrait Gallery        James Weldon Johnson 
-          National Portrait Gallery        James Weldon Johnson 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Il Penseroso 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *Ntozake Shange - poet* 
-          National Museum of American History        Meissen figure group 
-          Smithsonian Institution Archives        Maud Slye (1879-1954) 
-          National Portrait Gallery        William Gilmore Simms 
-          National Postal Museum        3c Edgar Allan Poe single 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Folio from a *Shahnama* (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); recto: text: he creation of the world, he creation of man, the creation of the sun and moon; verso: text: he Prophet Muhammad, the compilation of the Shahnama, the poet Daqiqi 
-          National Museum of African Art        *Sheikh Amadou Bamba* 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Portrait of Minamoto no Kintada 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Elizabeth Bishop 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Allen Tate 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Selected Poems by Ezra Pound 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robert Frost 
-  Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Enrique Riverón 
-          National Portrait Gallery        John Ashbery 
-          Archives of American Art        Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Enrique Riverón 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Maquette of Book Cover Design, Dylan Thomas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ezra Pound 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ezra Pound 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ezra Loomis Pound 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ezra Loomis Pound 
-          National Postal Museum        5c American Poets Walt Whitman plate block of four 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ezra Loomis Pound 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Book of poetry 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Anthology of Poetry 
-          National Postal Museum        400 lire "Poetry" single 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Personification of Poetry, After Raphael 
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