With April showers, poetry flowers: Three vibrant collections
To readers who love poetry, the art form appears as vibrant and unexpected as a swath of wildflowers running along a highway. Favorite books and poems take root and bloom in memory, resurfacing when needed, just as spring does every year. New collections offer the opportunity to explore a variety of insights, ideas, and discoveries.
April – which is National Poetry Month – is a time to celebrate this genre, which existed before written language and serves to anchor us to the past and who we have been. Poetry also reflects who we are now and what we might become.
Three new books by contemporary poets offer fascinating glimpses of 21st-century America, the challenges we face, and how poetry
