On its Web site, the Academy of American Poets suggests many ways to celebrate this special month. In addition, the Academy of American Poets is proposing that the United States Postal Service commemorate our nation's literary heritage with a new series of stamps honoring America's best-loved poets. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. What can be explained is not poetry.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. The bardolaters celebrated their hero's birthday by enacting scenes from his plays. Punctuating Poetry .