How does a school take part in Poetry 180?
All you need to do is print out one of the poems from this Web site, numbered from 1 through 180, and have it read to the school in a public forum, such as at the end of the day’s announcements. You may want to print out a new poem every day or it may be easier to print out several at a time, for a week or even a month. What do we do with the poems? Select someone to read a poem to the school each day. Or, better still, give prospective readers the opportunity to look at the next few weeks’ worth of poems and let them choose a poem they want to read. The daily poem day may be read aloud by any member of the school community: a student, a teacher, an administrator or a staff person. Students with literary inclinations might be the most eager to read, but teachers should aim at creating a broad spectrum of readers to encourage the notion that poetry belongs to everyone. Ideally, the editor of the student literary magazine would read one day and the volleyball coach the next day; a member
