Read or listen to your favorite poems

Warwick — On Sunday, April 30, at 2 p.m., the Albert Wisner Public Library invites the Warwick Community to participate in “The Favorite Poem Project” readings to be held at the Baby Grand Café on West Street. The program is a celebration of April as National Poetry Month. The only rule for participation is that poems recited or read cannot be poems the readers or their friends or relatives have written, but ones they have read, perhaps many times, and to which they feel a personal attachment. Robert Pinsky, the 39th poet laureate of the United States, founded the project shortly after the Library of Congress appointed him to the post in 1997. Since its launch, the project has been dedicated to celebrating, documenting and promoting poetry’s role in Americans’ lives. Pinsky has said that “one of the beautiful things about poetry, is that the medium is the human body and its voice.” The library has in its collection many volumes of poetry by well known poets, from classical to the modern, American, Hispanic, European, Asian and African. Poetry by local Warwick poets is featured in a current display at the library. To sign up to read your favorite poem at the event, call 986-1047. Interested listeners are also welcome.