National Poetry Month begins

FALLS VILLAGE — An evening of poetry at the David M. Hunt Library April 4 attracted a modest crowd, but almost everyone who came read something.

Before he read, Kent Allyn provided some background. He said he has been busy clearing out the accumulated relics and artifacts of life, so that when the time comes his heirs won’t have to rent a dumpster.

In the course of the clearing out, he came across some typewritten pages from the early 1970s. Having said that, he read the concise poems, which he described as “reflections of the past to refract in the future.”

“These could have been written today,” he mused.

Lonnie Carter went the modern route, reading a poem he wrote years ago when living in Beijing off an iPad.

Jerry Stanton was the evening’s iconoclast, noting “I write stuff that rhymes” before beginning.

The poetry reading was scheduled to coincide with National Poetry Month, which occurs every April and was started in 1996.