I don't know that I like the idea. It's too much of it at one time and ignoring it for 11 months. The University of Iowa Press has several new collections headed for store shelves. UI Writers' Workshop graduate Ben Doyle has a new collection, and readings will be held throughout the month. Whether there is a day or month or year to celebrate it or if Hallmark puts out a card for it, people will do it.
Life is about more than the daily things that take our attention.
Bell's sentiments fit well with the latest marketing campaign from the UI Press. Megan Scott with the UI Press says its anthologies especially have something for everyone. They can open up a whole new world of writing for them. The postcard series is designed to show how poetry can address different topics, from doctors to immigrants and farmers, and is available around the area. That's a lot of poetry, but there is an audience for it, Doyle says.