In 1996, the Academy of American Poets started celebrating National Poetry Month during April. This month helps remind the public of the important role poets play in our culture and society. In celebration, we’ve asked poets across the College to share their stories with us. 

Dave Lucas, SAGES Teaching Fellow and Ohio Poet Laureate (2018-19)

In 2018, Lucas was named Ohio’s second poet laureate. In 2019, he wrote this piece, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry: #2, detailing how he fell in love with poetry. Learn more about Lucas in the daily’s “5 questions”. 

Favorite line of poetry?

Some lines much on my mind recently, from Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “Paul Robeson”:
we are each other’s
harvest: we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.