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It’s National Poetry Month: Ways and Reasons to Join the Festivities

April has arrived, that season when in many places the growl of a lawnmower replaces the roar of a snow blower. It’s the first full month of spring, when melted ice and snow perform their usual magic, giving birth to daffodils and grass green as the hills of Ireland. Sunlight falls soft as down on…

April, lovely April. Scraggly March with its lion’s entrance and lamb’s departure has at last taken a final bow, and April now steps to the stage. Associated with Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, and derived from the Latin “aperire,” meaning “to open,” April waves her magic wand and turns lawns from brown to effervescent…

Foolish Wisdom: Edward R. Sill’s ‘A Fool’s Prayer’

In his poem “The Fool’s Prayer,” Edward R. Sill uses the king’s jester to show that we are all fools and our prayers are not what they should be. The jester is the wisest because he acknowledges his folly. Though we think we are wise, he proves that we are all fools. G.K. Chesterton agrees:…

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