April is National Poetry Month Poetry can help us celebrate happy times and get us through difficult ones. Lucky for us, this is National Poetry Month! Poets and poetry organizations around the country (and around the world) are offering many ways to lift our spirits and provide calm and comfort through poetry. Poet Tara Skurtu has started #InternationalPoetryCircle on Twitter as a platform for sharing videos of poets reading their favorite poems. Actor Sir Patrick Stewart uses the platform to share his reading of #ASonnetADay . The Academy of American Poets has several suggestions of how to engage with poetry virtually. [...]