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20 Poets You Should Know For National Poetry Month, were celebrating these bookshelf worthy scribes Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for BET April is National Poetry month and with Amanda Gorman’s historic inauguration performance centering poetry on the world stage, people inside and outside of the literary world are paying extra attention to our country’s scribes during this season. Poets are our mirrors, healers, and judges. They reflect back our values, actions, and priorities...

Reply Feb. 19, 2021 Manchester Community College, home of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, is joining with the circuit to sponsor author and poet Ross Gay on Tuesday, March 2, from 7 to 8 p.m. Gay will read from his work live via WebEx. Subscribe Gay is author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and was the winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of...