April is our National Poetry Month

From

The Waste Land

by T. S. Eliot (1922)

April is the cruellest month, breeding 

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 

Memory and desire, stirring 

Dull roots with spring rain.

During National Poetry Month, Poetry in Community sponsors a free community-centric festival with readings, performances, free poetry distribution, public poetry displays, and more. Open mic is featured to encourage new and emerging talent to make their presence known.

Four nights of poetry will be offered during April at Village Learning Place. Waverly Branch of the Library will host an end of the month culminating event 11:00 am Saturday April 28. The schedule is at http://crumopoperfest.blogspot.com/

There will also be a local poetry walk featuring poems in shop windows and on cafe tables. A map of this tour will be on the web and at participating businesses, cafes, and restaurants.

Poetry in Community will print and spread little free books of poems around too!

Check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/171999202908703/ 

Visit the Good Shepherd Statue on the hill at Ellerslie & East 33rd dedicated to our very own poet, Lizette Woodworth Reese, and see her tombstone in the St Johns in the Village cemetery at 3009 Greenmount Avenue.