Swampscott Conservancy Next month is National Poetry Month — 30 days to celebrate poets and poetry! New England has had its share of famed poets — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...

“From the simplicity of nature to the gravity of mourning ... and find this time very peaceful as one moves closer to dying,” Swanson said. The poems are not long and have different layers of meaning.