Poetry Month Kicks Off with Bronx Poet Laureate Haydil Henriquez

April 1st marks the start of National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the written word and the role it plays in our lives.

It's also the start of our poetry month challenge. Please send us your poems! Our theme this year is "normalcy," whatever that means to you in this particular moment. You can submit your poems via Twitter (@wnyc) or email them to wnycpoetry@gmail.com. And be sure to keep listening -- we may read your poem on the air!

Haydil Henriquez is the first ever Bronx Poet Laureate. She joined Morning Edition host Michael Hill to read one of her poems, and talk about what poetry has meant to her and to the Bronx.