National Poetry Day Toolkit
PURPOSE
The purpose of National Poetry Day is to raise awareness of poetry and encourage participation in reading, writing and performing poetry. The Poetry Society itself focuses effort into getting poetry broadcast on radio and/or television.The media are aware of National Poetry Day and are often looking around for unusual, wacky events to cover. I have found it to be one of the easier events to get the media interested in if you are doing something above and beyond a straightforward poetry reading.
Time To Read currently has a full time paid co-ordinator, supported by Arts Coucil of England and Museums, Libraries and Archives, North West.