April is poetry month, but March is verse

Here comes Poetry Month again. Have you sent out all your cards? At NCPR we always make a big deal of it, and this year is no exception. I'll be on the road this Saturday with our Kroc Fellow-in-residence Douglas Hopper to record David Budbill's gig in Montgomery, Vermont. Poetry with shakuhachi flute and gong bowls. How cool is that? You can get a taste on next Thursday's Readers & Writers and tell us how cool, or later in the month on the debut broadcast of our new regional arts program Open Studio. We will also launch the next selection in our Books by Email series: Toward the Distant Islands, new and selected poems by Copper Canyon Press author Hayden Carruth. No poet active in American letters has or deserves a finer reputation. And check future Listening Posts for special poetry features and programs thoughout April.

But this is still March, Seasonal Affective Disorder Month. So here is a truly downer poem for the month of muck, darkness and debris: March Song.