April is National Poetry Month, and once again the North Shore Poets’ Forum is celebrating with readings by the winners of its annual Naomi Cherkofsky contest followed by open mic on Saturday, April 16, 11 a.m., at the Beverly Public Library.
Just to keep you posted, we had a fantastic meeting last week. Melissa Varnavas presented a program on inspiration which was, well, inspiring! Many of those present came up with some pretty great raw material for polished poems. As Melissa reminded us, quoting Thomas Edison, I think, genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent work.
And, all of us at the meeting hope you will join us for the annual Poetry Reading next month, which is National Poetry Month. The Forum’s event is always a great time — a time for sharing poetry, food and friendship. We look forward to greeting you there.
North Shore Poets' Forum 
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour created by the head of the writing program at Montserrat College continues this month with readings on April 21st, 7:00, at Boot Straps Store on Rantoul Street. I joined them last month at Barter Brothers where poems relating to flowers and other growing things were shared. This is great fun. Stop by if you can. Free.