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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“April hath put a spirit of youth poetry in everything,” including the Santa Barbara event calendars. In honor of National Poetry Month, here are the readings, workshops, special events, and ...

There's no such thing as National Prose Month. That would be too, well, prosaic. But April is National Poetry Month, despite T.S. Elliot's famous line about April being the cruelest. For poets and ...

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 ...

Poets can be found reading their work all around the Sound — not just in April, but throughout the year. Below are some highlights from the next couple of weeks: Tonight: Susan Hutton — The poet reads ...