I didn't, until I read an article in The Sacramento Bee about how Yolo County residents plan to celebrate the day.
The idea behind Poem in Your Pocket Day is simple. You are to select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then, on this day, carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends.
Throughout the day, poems from pockets are unfolded with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores.
In Yolo County, for instance, Allegra Silberstein, the city of Davis' poet laureate, will lead a poetry reading at the Branch Library, where people can pick up pocket-sized poems, as well as write and finish poems that have been started with a first line.
What a great idea!
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
--Robert Frost
What's yours?
