Dear People:

There's so much going on for National Poetry Month, that I'll just leap right into the listings for April instead of hamming up the usual review.

Important Note: If you can only do one thing this month, I strongly recommend the Boston T-1 Party on the 25th, which is part of the larger Cyberarts Boston Festival.

It's centrally located at the Boston Public Library (at the Copley stop of the Green Line), free (though reservations are recommended), and the most likely place for you to ride a steep learning curve. Click on the websites below for the party and the Fest, and have a great time!

Holly

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Tuesday, April 3: Eugene Gloria will read from his National Poetry Series book, Drivers at the Short-Time Motel. Adams House, 26 Plympton Street, Harvard Campus. $2.50 suggested donation at door. (617) 547-4648 8 pm

Wednesday, April 4: Glyn Maxwell, author of The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995, and Time's Fool: a Tale in Verse will read in the Exhibition Room of Houghton Library, Harvard Campus, Cambridge. (617) 495-2454 5:30 pm

Thursday, April 19: Reetika Vazirani, author of White Elephants will read in the Poetry Room of Lamont Library, Harvard Campus, Cambridge. (617) 495-2454 5:30 pm

Friday, April 20: James Fenton, whose Oxford lectures have been collected under the title, The Strength of Poetry, will speak at the Sackler Gallery. Sackler Museum, corner of Quincy and Broadway in Harvard Square. (617) 547-4648 8 pm

Saturday, Apr. 21: More than 50 major and emerging poets will read from their work at the first Boston Poetry Marathon, in honor of National Poetry Month. Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston. (617) 536-5400 (x2371) 10 am to 5 pm

Sunday, April 22: Gail Mazur will read from her most recent collection, They Can't Take That Away From Me. Fogg Art Museum, Quincy Street in Harvard Square. (617) 547-4648 3 pm

Tuesday, April 24: Martin Espada will read from his, A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen. Adams House, 26 Plympton Street in Harvard Square. 8pm

Tuesday, April 24: Poet and playwright, Jonathan Sisson, will read poems set in Boston. South End Branch of the Boston Public Library, 685 Tremont Street, Boston. (617) 536-8241 6:30 p.m

Wednesday, April 25: Tim Murnane will read from his book, The Blue Masked Forest, in the Harvard Square Coop, level three. (617) 236-7460 7 pm

Wednesday, Apr. 25: Boston T-1 Party: Electronic Literature in Performance. Award-winning authors Shelley Jackson, William Gillespie, Adam Cadre, Kurt Heintz, and others will read from their projected electronic work in this, one of the highlights of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/splash.html Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston. (617) 536-5400 (x2371) Info and a (free) reservation form can be found at: http://www.eliterature.org/t1party/ 6:30 p.m.

Friday, April 27: John Balaban will read from Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuon Huong, his translation from the Vietnamese. Sackler Gallery, Sackler Museum, corner of Quincy and Broadway in Harvard Square. (617) 547-4648 8 pm

Tuesday, May 1: Joshua Beckman, recipient of the APR Honickman First Book Prize for Things Are Happening, will read from his second collection, Something I Expected to be Different. Peter Richards will read from his first collection, Oubliette. Adams House, 26 Plympton Street in Harvard Square. (617) 547-4648 8 pm

Sunday, May 6: Allen Grossman, Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins, will read from his ninth collection, How To Do Things with Tears. Fogg Art Museum, Quincy Street in Harvard Square. (617) 547-4648 3 pm