National Poetry Month Giveaway for Readers

I hope everyone has enjoyed some of the National Poetry Month Blog Tour, traveled to new blogs, learned a bit about poetry, and found some poets you’d like to try. Today, I’m hosting a giveaway for Suzanne Frischkorn‘s newest collection, Girl on a Bridge.  Check out these two videos of her reading two of her poems, Bees and Indiscretion of an American Wife, 1954. Also please check out this poem from her collection:

The First Signs And forsythia tumbles over the fence wild with yellow– When I was seven a wasp landed on my lip drawn by the sweetness of my mother’s red lipstick –while purple flagstones split with grass. The same day a child next door squeezed six new kittens dead. That’s when I knew– There are two shades of still.

Giveaway Details for Girl on a Bridge: 1. Leave a comment on which of these poems you liked best or if you think YouTube videos make poetry more appealing to you as a reader. 2. Tweet, Blog, Facebook, or spread the word about the giveaway and leave a link here. Deadline: May 7, 2010, at 11:59 PM EST *** Don’t forget to visit the next stops on the National Poetry Month Blog Tour at Jen’s Book Thoughts and Linus’s Blanket.