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Article: FEST PROMISES POETRY MONTH AT ITS FINEST.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- April 24, 1998
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No longer is April considered ``the cruelest month,'' at least by writers and lovers of poetry. That phrase from T.S. Eliot's immortal poem, ``The Waste Land,'' has no place in poetic discourse since the much-trumpeted establishment of April as National Poetry Month three years ago.
Now, it seems as though every neighborhood library, coffeehouse and shopping mall is hosting some sort of April poetry event, everything from open mikes to magnetic poetry walls to kid readings. The problem in April is not finding poetry events, but finding worthy poetry events, amid this great marketing-driven deluge of verse.
As noted poet Donald Hall said in Seattle ...