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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        Walt Whitman 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Frank O'Hara 
-          National Portrait Gallery        DuBose Heyward 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Phyllis McGinley 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Edna St. Vincent Millay 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Djuna Barnes 
-          Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden        Poet Laureate 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Edgar A. Guest 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Dorothy Parker 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Edna St. Vincent Millay 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Henry David Thoreau 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Bob Holman 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Adah Isaacs Menken 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Lawrence Ferlinghetti 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Green Hose, Robert Pinsky 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Amiri Baraka 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Gertrude Stein 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Dorothy Parker 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        The Poet 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Claude McKay 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Joseph Alexander Brodsky 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Woody Guthrie 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Portrait of Onakatomi no Yorimoto 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Book of poems by Grace Greenwood 
-          Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery        Portrait of the poetess, Saigu no Nyogo Yoshiko 
-          National Portrait Gallery        John Cage 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Arna Wendell Bontemps 
-          National Portrait Gallery        James Agee 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Randall Jarrell 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Pedro Pietri 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Emma Embury 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Elizabeth Bishop 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Julia Ward Howe 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Langston Hughes 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Jim Harrison 
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