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Celebrating National Poetry Month, Locally

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April 1st means it is time for... poetry. Didn't quite expect that ending on April Fools Day, did you? But it's true, National Poetry Month takes place in April, a chance to celebrate poetry and its many creators.

So we do just that with three guests: Eileen Bobek of Rebel Heart Books in Jacksonville, which hosts poetry events. She is joined by Diana Coogle, whose latest poetry book is From Friend to Wife to Widow: Six Brief Years (Diana's husband died in May, 2020). And Kim Hamilton rounds out the panel; her collection Calling Through Water came out in 2020.

We hear poetry, stories of poetry, and stories of the poets.

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