Poetry wasn’t for me. Then, Emma Dryden, my wonderful editor at Simon and Schuster, asked me to write a book of poetry. I didn’t think I could, but she convinced me to give it a shot.

Who started it? Inspired by the successful celebrations of Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March), the Academy of American Poets established National Poetry Month in 1996.

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Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with ...

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