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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.
  -          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Poet in Her Kitchen 
-          National Portrait Gallery        e.e. cummings Self-Portrait 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        The Poet 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        The Poet 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        The Master Poets 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        An emperor visits Tulsidas 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Langston Hughes 
-          National Postal Museum        8c Emily Dickinson single 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Drunken poets 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        A Famous Poet 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        On Modern Poets 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Monument for a poet 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Portrait of Audre Lorde 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        The Six Immortal Poets 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robert Frost 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        The Warrior Poet 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ntozake Shange 
-          National Museum of American History        Button, Fisher Poets Gathering 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Thirty-Six Poets 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        The Poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Young Poet 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        The poet Sugawara Michizane at the seashore 
-          National Museum of American History        Flyer, Fisher Poets Gathering 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus 
-          National Museum of African Art        *Poets and Fetters* 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Among the Old Poets 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Performers entertaining poets 
-          Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden        From the Poet's Window 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Sepulchral Monument for Poet Tagerini 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Poster advertising a Last Poets performance 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Woman, from the series "100 poets" 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        The Chap-Book (The Poet and His Lady) 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Scottish Poet Robert Burns 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Six poets 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Costume Design: Gadsby, for A Touch of the Poet 
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