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, and this year it's taking on some new resonance, with most of the world stuck indoors, anxious for the future and antsy about the present. Poems can be a lot of things ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Dothan Houston County Library Director Chris Warren joined News4 This Morning to tell us about the newest Chapter Chat pick. April is National Poetry Month, so this month’s pick ...

While April 1 is usually associated with good-spirited trickery and the early signs of spring, it also marks the beginning of National Poetry Month. Introduced by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 ...

There’s much to be said in praise of the small poem. For one thing, small poems, like today’s Poem of the Day by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), are easy to memorize. In fact, Teasdale’s “April” is a ...

Nina was a breaking news reporter. She previously worked at Business Insider, The Boston Globe, and Boston.com. With the start of the month come April Fool's jokes and sayings about April showers ...

For those who are tweeters, use #pocketpoem to share your poem with the Twitter-verse. For information and tips/events for celebrating the day, go to poets.org/pocket ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...