Luxuriate in blooming verse: A case for expanding National Poetry Month into a full season

Luxuriate in blooming verse: A case for expanding National Poetry Month into a full season

Outside of the April 10, 2025, action at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, it was a sunny day and the tulips were in bloom and squirrels played upon the lawn. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)National Poetry Month has come and gone, and the flowers are still blooming, and the poets are still reading. It came and went so fast that I am not sure any of us were actually able to sit with the poems floating by us — or if we stopped long enough to smell…