Poem in Your Pocket Day has been celebrated in New York City since 2002. Each April, city parks, bookstores and workplaces have open readings of poems from pockets. This year, the event goes national on April 17th. I know that some local schools are celebrating this event, encouraging students and family members to carry around poems in their pockets and share them with others throughout the day. Here are some ways to get poems in people's pockets: Text a poem to friends. Write haiku on the back of your business cards. Make flyers of poems and post them in record stores, coffee shops and bookstores. Have pocket sized bookmarks printed up with favorite short poems. Post a poem on your blog or add one to your e-mail footer. Download poetry to your iPod. Create an original poem on the back of a receipt and recite it to the next retail clerk that asks "May I help you?".