- read a poem
- buy a poetry book for yourself
- buy a poetry book for a friend
- read a poetry book in a public place
- write an off-the-cuff poem and hide it until next Poetry Day
- write a poem in the sand or on the pavement
- start a crowd writing a poem in the sand or on the pavement
- send a letter to your favourite poet
- cut up someone’s poem and shape it into something new
- check out the poem that Jack Ross (an all-time favourite poet of mine!) included in my birthday book: he is reading in Hamilton’s Poetry Day festivities
- check out the poem that our wonderful new Poet Laureate, CK Stead, included in my birthday book. Today is his welcome-to-Poet-Laureateship do. I will be there to celebrate! Congratulations!
- write a review of a NZ poetry book for me to post on Poetry Shelf
- tell someone about a poetry book you have read and loved in the last few weeks – me: Joan Fleming’s Failed Loved Poems (VUP, 2015)
- go to a poetry event near you today. Send me a write up for Poetry Shelf with photos
- send me a paragraph on why you love poetry and I will post
- send me a paragraph on a NZ poetry book you have loved this year and I will post
- read a poem to a child
- write a poem for a child
- go hunting in a second-hand bookshop for a poetry surprise (I did this yesterday and got a gorgeous volume of Ruth Dallas’s I’d never seen before!)
- read a poem
Thanks Paula, a great list. I’ll read some of them out tonight when I MC the Dunedin event.
Thanks! Best wishes for your event and Happy Poetry Day!