Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

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National Poetry Month / Poem In Your Pocket Day

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April is National Poetry Month, and April 26 is Poem In Your Pocket Day.

The idea is to carry a copy of your favorite poem in your pocket to share with others in a sort of awareness, appreciation, promotion exercise.

There are two books available to help you along:  Poem in your Pocket for Young Poets and Poem in Your Pocket.

Each contains poems that can be torn out of the book and put into your pocket or the pocket of one of your friends.

Here’s how it works:

Great idea, don’t you think?

My all time favorite poem is Mending Wall by Robert Frost. 

What’s yours?

For more ideas about how to participate in National Poetry Month, go to Poets.org or Napa Valley Writer’s Conference page.

As always, thanks for stopping by,


About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.