Today I attended GRF Sam’s Poem in Your Pocket Day event.  This was a really fun event celebrating a really cool holiday meant to encourage people to read and talk about poetry.  I have a little bit of poetry experience through both my English classes and various campus writing-related organizations that I am part of, but I am by no means a poetry expert.  It was interesting to hear about Sam’s experience with the poetry day event.  While this event was small, it was nice to be able to talk to others about a mutual interest.  I really enjoyed hearing people share some of their favorite poems and read them aloud.  There is something really magical about hearing poetry read aloud.  While I did not have any specific short poem to share off the top of my head, it was cool hearing what others had to share.  I talked about a fascinating poetry book called “Dance Dance Revolution” which I read in my Utopian literature class.  Another thing that we did was try to do blackout poetry with one of Shakespeare’s sonnets.  If you don’t know, blackout poetry is when you take an existing poem or any type of writing and blackout a bunch of the words, leaving only some words behind that you use to make a new poem.  It was really fun to try this, even though my poem didn’t end up making much sense!  Overall, this event was a fun break from work where I got to talk about poetry with others!