Registration and schedule at utahpoetryfestival.com University of Utah April marks National Poetry Month, a time to contemplate the way verse can provide unique insight into the complexities of life. After a uniquely complex year, however, there's not necessarily a reason to think poets have unlocked all of its secrets. Paisley Rekdal—University of Utah faculty member, Utah poet laureate and host of this week's virtual Utah Poetry Festival—wants to dispel the notion that a time when most of us were more isolated than usual provided a uniquely fertile period for poets to work. "It's a complicated answer," Rekdal says. "If you were a woman with children of a certain age, you didn't get a thing done; this time has erased a whole generation's creative labors. I don't have children, so in that respect I'm fortunate ... but I wasn't able to do anything new. I just finished what was on my to-do list."