I ♥ Poetry
April just can’t get any respect. T.S. Eliot famously called it “the cruelest month,” and Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote, "To what purpose, April, do you return again?" Maybe that’s why the Academy of American Poets chose to uplift and ennoble poor, old April by designating it in 1996 as National Poetry Month. Their website is a treasure trove of full-text poems, poet biographies, interviews, and audio clips of poets reading their own works. What a treat to hear W. B. Yeats read “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” conveying all the strength and musicality of its language. More poetry resources are available at poetry.org and the Library of Congress.
(Just a reminder, don’t look for poems in the library under fiction; they’re over in non-fiction under 811.)