A poem a day…

WASHINGTON — Billy Collins , the nation’s new poet laureate, came up with a plan Friday for getting young people interested in poetry: Have someone read out a poem a day in high schools.
His „Poetry 180“ will come up with 180 poems, one for each day of a school year. The first 64 are published on Collins‘ new Web site, with the rest promised as he obtains the permission of poets and publishers.
Most will be works by American poets, poems that, like Collins‘, are easy to understand on first reading. But a little note of explanation will be added to some with a recommendation that it be read before the poem itself. / Deseret News 6.1.02