Monday, April 8, 2019

Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month!

We will be celebrating all month long. Join us at one of our special events or check out a book of poetry!

After School Adventuring! 
Wednesdays at 3:30 PM
An occasional, drop-in series for kids of all ages with lots of hands-on learning and fun.
April 10 - Poetry Prompts and Play
April 17 - Fun with Poetic Forms
April 24 - Poetry Read-Aloud

Open Poetry Reading
Saturday, April 27 at 10:30 AM
Everyone is welcome to come share some poetry! Come read (or listen) to the work of your  your own, your neighbors' or that of other favorite poets. Plus, a special reading by Evansville poet Lisa Marie Brodsky -author of the book, Motherlung, (which, by the way, we have at the library-- Feel free to check it out!)

Poetry for Kids
Poetree by Shauna LaVoy Reynolds
Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Black Boy by Tony Medina
With My Hands: Poems About Making Things by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies

Poetry for Teens
For Everyone by Jason Reynolds
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Shout: A Poetry Memoir by Laurie Halse Anderson
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience by Patrice Vecchione

Poetry for Adults
Motherlung by Lisa Marie Brodsky
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
The Best American Poetry

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