Review: "'What’s duller than a newsy letter,' Merrill wonders. Artifice is his way of being natural. With Jamesian syntax and Wildean wit, he lavishes his correspondents with parody, puns and aphorism..." (The New York Times) #pdnews nytimes.com/2021/04/06/boo…

Happy #NationalLibraryWeek! Librarians, there's still time to request a free copy of the 2021 #NationalPoetryMonth poster! Order before the request line closes on April 12. poets.org/national-poetr…

Announcement: John Murillo was named the 2021 winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award for his collection "Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry." He will receive a $100,000 prize. (Daily Bulletin) #pdnews dailybulletin.com/2021/04/07/ont…

tinyurl.com/vd5dkm4m Charles Coe #Poet #poetry Sunday April 11, 7 PM on Zoom Into Poetry

We're pleased to announce that Claudia Rankine has selected Kemi Alabi Kemi Alabi as the recipient of the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award, the nation’s most valuable first-book prize for a poet, for their manuscript, AGAINST HEAVEN: poets.org/claudia-rankin…

Explore our Learn page to find our latest articles on teaching poetry to all ages. #NationalPoetryMonth bit.ly/3dFTo5Z

Announcement: The 2021 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry are Sandra Lim, Ellen Bass, Don Mee Choi, Andrea Cohen, Stephen Kuusisto, Tracie Morris, Craig Morgan Teicher, Roberto José Tejada, Connie Voisine, & Mark Wunderlich. (Guggenheim Foundation) #pdnews gf.org/announcement-2…

"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." - Toni Morrison

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." - Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

Happy poetic birthday to Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821; d.1867), French poet, essayist, and art critic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%… #WCPA #Poet #PoetBirthday

A poem may hold the unwieldy pieces of the earth together with a whole heart; a poem may cut that heart to lace. —Sandra Lim, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow poets.org/poem/certainty

Happy birthday to Canadian-born American poet Mark Strand (1934; d.2014), 4th poet laureate of the U.S., won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for his book Blizzard of One. poets.org/poet/mark-stra… #WCPA #PoetsBirthday

Our own Christopher @Reilley will read tomorrow evening with Harris Gardner and Michael C. Keith in the Newton Public Library series, free registration required #poetry #poets #WCPA newtonfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/7342526?…

A poetry reading series aims to bring poets together across Mass. and Connecticut. Meg Smith bit.ly/3XCaV4n

We at the WCPA congratulate @oliver_delaPaz on being named Worcester's new poet laureate! worcestermag.com/story/entertai…

Happy birthday, Elizabeth Bishop! We celebrate her with "In the Waiting Room," which begins "In Worcester, Massachusetts..." poets.org/poem/waiting-r…

There are four upcoming WCPA events this week! Check our calendar for full details: worcestercountypoetry.org/events/

This Thursday at 7-10pm, come to the Poetorium @ Starlite open mic & reading series featuring Bruce Michael Galli--fb event page here: facebook.com/events/8727536…

Worcester County poets, we look forward to receiving your work!

Somerville Poet Kirk Etherton tells all about the Boston National Poetry Festival thesomervilletimes.com/archives/74991