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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.
  -          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Euterpe, Muse of Lyric Poetry 
-          National Museum of African Art        *Poetry* 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        In the Late Afternoon. . .We Talk Poetry 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Poetry (bust of figure on front facade of New York Public Library 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral* 
-          Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden        Walt Whitman 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Poetry Resource Center of Michigan Benefit Party 
-          Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden        Portrait of Jack Kerouac 
-          National Museum of American History        "Just My Take: A Book of Poetry and Words of Wisdom" 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        The Essentials of Poetry (*Eiga taigai*) 
-          National Museum of American History        Typewriter belonging to Lawrence Ferlinghetti 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Walt Whitman 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Walt Whitman 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Apollo personifying Poetry 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Poetry Series: Street Ballads 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Broadside for Essex Hemphill poetry reading 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Poetry Series: An Introductory Anthology 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Six Immortals of Poetry: Ariwara no Narihira 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Poetry, from a Series of Seated Muses 
-          National Museum of American History        The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Poetry offering to the Kasuga Shrine (*Kasuga kaishi*) 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Photograph of June Jordan 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Poetry anthology manuscript in safina format of 25 folios 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Seeking a Line of Poetry by a Spring Stream 春溪覓句圖 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *Amiri Baraka, Poet* 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Thalia, Muse of Comedy and Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Poster for Concept East Poetry featuring Kain, David Nelson, and Felipe Luciano 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        A Ceremonial Poetry Party in March, one of a set of five 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Folio from a *Khamsa* (Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi; verso: Amir Khusraw presents a book of poetry to Ala'uddin Khalji; recto: text 
-          National Museum of American History        Carl Sandburg 
-          National Museum of American History        Women's Year Poem 
-          National Museum of American History        Women's Year Poem 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Audre Lorde 
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