The final poetry event for National Poetry Month at UMass Lowell is set for Thursday, April 28, at 7 pm, when Lowell native Michael Casey and Nicholas Samaras, with family ties in Lowell, read at O’Leary Library Auditorium, 61 Wilder St, UML South Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Both Casey and Samaras are past winners of one of the nation’s most prestigious poetry awards, The Yale Prize for Younger Poets of Yale University.