April is famous for many things: showers, fools, and painted eggs among them. Fewer may know that, since 1996, cities across America have also celebrated the art of poetry in April. In our own little ...

April is National Poetry Month and that’s because of an initiative by the Academy of American Poets beginning in 1996. The Academy claims National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in ...

Poet T.S. Eliot had no idea what was in store when he wrote nearly a century ago that “April is the cruelest month.” He was just talking about the slow emergence of spring, not a worldwide pandemic.

With spring well underway, the weather warming and the Earth coming back to life, is it any wonder that April is designated National Poetry Month in the United States? The literary celebration was ...

According to T.S. Eliot, “April is the cruelest month.” That is certainly the most well-known line from his poem The Wasteland. It is one of those quotes many people have heard even if they haven’t ...

April is National Poetry Month, first proclaimed in 1995 when The Academy of American Poets convened a group of publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary organizations, poets and teachers to ...

Curdy's debut cuts across the grain of contemporary poetry, offering "an embarrassment of grandeur in a wry age." No scare quotes here: In her dense, adjective-studded lines, Curdy allows us to ...

When Matthew Williams and Rebecca Laincz opened Firefly Bookstore in August in a former bead shop on Main Street in Kutztown, they stocked a good selection of poetry among their diverse new and used ...

High Frequency Poetry is a daily reading of a poem by a local author on Radio Colorado College throughout the month of April, National Poetry Month. The poems read here are all from the book Poetry ...

It’s National Poetry month in April, so Independent book reviewer David Starkey has, for the second year, written 30 short reviews — one for every day in April. Here are the first six: Kimiko Hahn, ...

Gertrude Stein has Bay Area roots. She grew up here. So did her life partner, Alice B. Toklas. As literary and cultural figures, they symbolize the creativity and conflict of their age. (Questions ...