April is National Poetry Month. Libraries everywhere are moving in directions poetical (for at least the next 30 days) and here at Odyssey Online a renewal of blogging about poetry, and poetry in our collections. To start with we will nod over toward the open web and a piece in Rumpus by David Beispiel who argues that Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl “helped create the world we now live in, a world opposed to an intolerant America.”
Howl is a fine start to National Poetry Month, we have the definitive version, of course, complete with variants and correspondence…