Showers, Flowers, and Poetic Powers: It’s Time to Celebrate!

Showers, Flowers, and Poetic Powers: It’s Time to Celebrate!
Perhaps you don’t read poetry because it doesn’t occur to you. April is National Poetry month and a good time to try. Vera Petruk / Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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April is the greening time, when choirs of birds announce the flourishing of bud and bloom, when the good old earth sheds its dull patchwork mantle of gray and brown and bustles with blossoms and new life.

April is also National Poetry Month, and this year marks the 25th anniversary of this event.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.