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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        Sandra Cisneros 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Charles Olson 
-          National Portrait Gallery        e.e. cummings 
-          National Portrait Gallery        John Wieners 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robert Lowell 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Amy Clampitt 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Margaret Walker, from the portfolio 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Sir Rabindranath Tagore 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Edgar Allan Poe 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Hilda Doolittle 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Robert Louis Stevenson 
-          National Portrait Gallery        W. H. Auden 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Walt Whitman 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Alan Dugan 
-          National Portrait Gallery        May Swenson 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Djuna Barnes 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Aldous Huxley 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Joyce Carol Oates 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Roque Dalton 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        The Protagonist of an Endless Story 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        In the Garden (Celia Thaxter in Her Garden) 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Marianne Moore 
-          National Portrait Gallery        e.e. cummings 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Harold Hart Crane 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        James Weldon Johnson, from the portfolio 'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ed Dorn 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ntozake Shange 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Paul Laurence Dunbar 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Stanley Kunitz 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Marianne Moore 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Robert Frost 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Ezra Pound, poet 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Kenneth Koch 
-          National Portrait Gallery        For Love 
-          National Portrait Gallery        John Ashbery 
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