It's National Poetry Month. To celebrate, Upper Rubber Boot Books is coordinating a book blog tour called Couplets. Fifty poets are participating by hosting guests at their blogs or being guests at other participants' blogs. Here is the list for the first week. Take a look and enjoy!

• 1 April 2012: what we make waiting for death (Lyn Lifshin at Joanne Merriam).



• 1 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #1, Stella Pierides . . . (at Margaret Dornaus' Haiku-doodle)



• 1 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés - Neil Aitken (at Christine Klocek-Lim's November Sky Poetry).



• 1 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Margaret Dornaus (at Stella Pierides: Literature, Art, Culture, Society).



• 1 April 2012: Gillena Cox (at Angie Werren's feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose)).



• 1 April 2012: Kristine Ong Muslim on Arlene Ang's "Living Without Water" (guest post) (at Peg Duthie's zirconium).



• 2 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #2, Jenny Ward Angyal . . . (at Margaret Dornaus' Haiku-doodle)



• 2 April 2012: Margaret Dornaus (at Angie Werren's feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose)).



• 3 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #3, Cara Holman . . . (at Margaret Dornaus'< a href="http://haikudoodle.wordpress.com">Haiku-doodle)



• 3 April 2012: Translation in poetry: thorny problems — a guest post by Sue Burke (at Heather Kamins: fiction, poetry, and other necessities)



• 3 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés - Hannah Stephenson (at Christine Klocek-Lim's November Sky Poetry).



• 3 April 2012: Couplets: a multi-author poetry blog tour — Marty Smith (at Shiteki Na Usagi [T.A. Smith/Yousei Hime])



• 3 April 2012: Yousei Hime (at Angie Werren's feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose)).



• 3 April 2012: how will we translate ourselves? (Deirdre Dwyer at Joanne Merriam).



• 4 April 2012: Couplets Blog Tour: Carol Berg Hosts Peg Duthie (at Ophelia Unraveling)



• 4 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #4, Christina Nguyen (at Margaret Dornaus'< a href="http://haikudoodle.wordpress.com">Haiku-doodle)



• 4 April 2012: Start with a number . . . (Sonja deVries, Yael Flusberg, Janine Harrison, Jaime Lee Jarvis, and Margaret Rozga at JoAnne Growney's Intersections --Poetry with Mathematics)



• 4 April 2012: Featured "Couplets" Poet: Margaret Dornaus (at Christina Nguyen's< a href="http://tina.mnnguyen.com/">A wish for the sky...)



• 4 April 2012: Christina Nguyen (at Angie Werren's feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))



• 5 April 2012: Poetry of the Urban Pastoral (Celia Lisset Alvarez at Scattered Showers in a Clear Sky: Poetry, Gardening, Birding, and other reflections on life [Anne Higgins])



• 5 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #5, Kirsten Cliff . . . (at Margaret Dornaus'< a href="http://haikudoodle.wordpress.com">Haiku-doodle)



• 5 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés — S. Abbas Raza (at Christine Klocek-Lim's November Sky Poetry).



• 5 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Lisa J. Cihlar (at Stella Pierides: Literature, Art, Culture, Society).



• 5 April 2012: Marty Smith (at Angie Werren's feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))



• 5 April 2012: writing is my excuse for being myself (Jenniey Tallman at< a href="http://www.joannemerriam.com/">Joanne Merriam).



• 6 April 2012: Stella Pierides (at Angie Werren's feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))



• 6 April 2012: Don't Wait (Carol Berg at Mary Alexandra Agner)



• 7 April 2012: "Books teach me to attend to this world" — a guest post by Lynn Domina (at Heather Kamins: fiction, poetry, and other necessities)



• 7 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés — Ayesha Chatterjee (at Christine Klocek-Lim's November Sky Poetry)



• 7 April 2012: Deb Scott (at Angie Werren's feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))



• 7 April 2012: The poem itself should tell the reader the melody of itself by way of its combination of words. (Jericho Brown [autoplays music] at Joanne Merriam)



• 7 April 2012: Introducing Community Activist/Poet/Playwright Bryan Thao Worra (at Wendy's Muse [Wendy Brown-Baez])