OTBKB fave, Deborah Ager, has declared September to be "Memorize Poetry Month.

It’s a cool idea. A great way to really get inside a poem. Deborah is the publisher of the highly respected 32 Poems. She also has a great blog, which I’ve been reading for a long time.

Since there’s April Poetry Month, I hereby declare September to be “Memorize Poetry” month. You don’t even have to memorize all the poems in the world — only four.

One poem per week…how difficult can that be? Here are rules:

1. One poem can be shorter than 10 lines. Ideally, the others should be longer than 10 lines.

Only one rule and four poems in month…easy, aye?

Go to her site for more details and ideas for poems to memorize.