Common Threads is coming soon! Watch this space for updates or subscribe to the MassPoetry email list. You can still see the 2011 Common Threads kit. Common Threads is a program of MassPoetry that seeks to have 10,000 people in the state read these nine poems in the month of April, National Poetry Month. :

• Tell the Truth but tell it slant by Emily Dickinson
• The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
• The Fire of Drift-wood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
• Horseface by Sam Cornish
• Baseball by Gail Mazur
• if see no end in is by Frank Bidart
• The Hardness Scale by Joyce Peseroff
• Out at Lanesville by David Ferry

All the poets have strong connections to Massachusetts.

Here is a short video on this year's Common Threads selection and program: