It’s National Poetry Month! It’s time to enjoy your favorite poets or find some new ones like Rumi, Billy Collins, e.e. cummings, an anthology of poets, or one of the many other famous and not-so-famous poets we have in the collection. Don’t like poetry? Not a problem. Try a novel […]
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It’s National Poetry Month! It’s time to enjoy your favorite poets or find some new ones like Rumi, Billy Collins, e.e. cummings, an anthology of poets, or one of the many other famous and not-so-famous poets we have in the collection. Don’t like poetry? Not a problem. Try a novel […]
Dame Judi Dench learns a poem or new word every day to keep her mind active. Neuroscience shows that reading stimulates the brain and creates empathy in readers. We challenge you to take what we’re calling the Judi Dench Challenge: read a new poem or book this week and […]
It’s the end of National Poetry Month. What did you read? Did you keep up with the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day website? Or did you check out Poetry 180 run by Billy Collins while he was the Poet Laureate? Or maybe you found a new poet or read some of your favorites. Did you […]
As you can see when you walk in and look at our latest display, April is National Poetry Month. If a whole book seems like too much work, why not try the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day website? Or if you are in grades 3-12 why not share your poems […]