The Cultural Center of Cape Cod will offer a poetry gathering from 2 to 4 PM on the fourth Friday of every month starting April 25.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

"It looks simple - and it is, but that's why it's brilliant," they said. Of course, McGough, who rose to poetry prominence in the late 1960s, is still going strong at 87. Dead Poets continued ...