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April is the cruelest month--national poetry month. It's an annual ordeal, not unlike a prostate exam, or creating that work of spring fiction known as Form 1040. Children in particular will be singled out for torture, set to memorizing "The Highwayman" and other morbid Victoriana, and studying verse scansion such as dipodal sinistrality (an awkward verse form where each line is comprised of two left feet), not to mention that popular 1970s rhyme scheme--ABBA--in which every other line must rhyme with the phrase "dancing queen." So be sure to tune in this evening at 7 pm for the "Revenge Against the Poets" edition of Readers & Writers on the Air, where we'll see just how many poets you can cram into a sound booth.