Brian Ler on WNYC, and I said at the beginning of the hour, we were going to do two

April call-ins this hour, the first one for Arab American Heritage Month and the one to

close the show today in our last 15 minutes or so

here on the last Friday of National Poetry Month, we're going to make some time for poetry.

So for these last few minutes of the show today, we are opening the phones to invite you to

recite a few lines from any poem that has personal significance to you.

You can recite them from memory or you can read them.

We're asking you to keep these to about 30 seconds per caller so we can get a bunch of people

in here, but it's open mic, open stage for any poem that is meaningful to you.

212-433 WNYC.

Call in to recite and try to keep it to about 30 seconds.

Obviously, in many cases, that won't be a whole poem.

It'll be an excerpt.

Okay, some of you might call in with hikus,

and you'll do them in nine seconds. But any poem you love, you are now welcome to recite

about half a minute of 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692 with a few days to go, National Poetry Month.

212-433-9692.

Our lines are filling up fast.

I will go first, and then we'll hear you.

2-1-2-4-33-9692 right after this.

Music 433-9292 right after this.

Brian Lairn on WNYC, as we're going to take your calls on National Poetry Month, open mic on the Brian Laird Show,

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