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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.
  -          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Thoughts on Calligraphers and Poets in cursive script 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *The Last Poets, Douglas 3* 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Joseph Brodsky single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Robert Hayden single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Sylvia Plath single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Elizabeth Bishop single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Wallace Stevens single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Denise Levertov single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Theodore Roethke single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: William Carlos Williams single 
-          National Postal Museum        Forever Twentieth-Century Poets: E. E. Cummings single 
-          National Postal Museum        10c American Poets James Whitcomb Riley first day cover 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Sylvia Plath 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Witty Matchings of the Thirty-Six Poets (Mitate Sanjurokkasen no uchi) 
-          National Postal Museum        1c American Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow plate block of four 
-          National Postal Museum        2c American Poets John Greenleaf Whittier plate block of four 
-          National Postal Museum        3c American Poets James Russell Lowell plate block of four 
-          National Postal Museum        10c American Poets James Whitcomb Riley plate block of four 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Folio from a *Haft Awrang* (Seven Thrones) by Jami (d.1492); recto: the gnostic has a vision of angels carrying trays of light to the poet Sa'di; verso: text 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robert Duncan 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robinson Jeffers 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Bust of Percy Bysshe Shelly 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Edwin Markham, from the portfolio "Portraiture" 
-          National Portrait Gallery        John Updike 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Walt Whitman 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Lord Byron 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Langston Hughes, from the portfolio 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Lord Byron 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robinson Jeffers 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Robert Frost 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Portrait of Kahlil Gibran 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robinson Jeffers 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Robert Burns 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, December 25, 1858 
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