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April is National Poetry Month
April 2nd, 2019 · Comments Off on April is National Poetry Month · Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch, Teens, Trustees, Uncategorized
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Dear Poet
April 26th, 2018 · Comments Off on Dear Poet · Books, City Library, Main Branch
April is National Poetry Month. For inspiration please check out the poetry display by the elevator on the main floor.
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Do you have a favorite poet?
April 19th, 2016 · Comments Off on Do you have a favorite poet? · Books, Children, City Library, Events, Main Branch, News, Teens, Trustees
Do you have a favorite poet?
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Do You Haiku?
May 8th, 2015 · Comments Off on Do You Haiku? · Ages 0-2, Ages 2-3, Ages 4-5, Ages 6-13, Books, Children, City Library, Events, Foundation, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-12, Grades K-2, News, NH Room, Teens, Trustees
I dream of haiku — comments left for me by you — dusk is approaching
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Wordsmith Maxine Kumin
February 7th, 2014 · Comments Off on Wordsmith Maxine Kumin · Books, City Library, Local Author Series, Local History, Main Branch, NH Room
A favorite poem about Winter by the late poet Maxine Kumin,
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An Ode to the Haggis
January 21st, 2014 · Comments Off on An Ode to the Haggis · Books, City Library, Events, Foundation, Friends of the West Manchester Community Library, Local History, Main Branch, News, NH Room, Teens, Trustees
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose.
Tags: address to the haggis·Burns Night·Burns Night Supper·haggis·manchester·Manchester City Library·N.H.·new hampshire·poetry·Robert Burns·Scottish cuisine
TEEN POETRY SLAM: SLAMMIN’ @ YOUR LIBRARY
April 17th, 2012 · Comments Off on TEEN POETRY SLAM: SLAMMIN’ @ YOUR LIBRARY · Books, City Library, Events, Grades 6-12, Main Branch, Teens
Any teens out there who want to share the art of the spoken word?
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For Librarians
April 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Books, Children, City Library, Events, Main Branch, Teens
For the librarian knows books are easily burned,
Recycled, or digitized, reduced to oxygen, carbon,
Silicon, and such basic elements as hate…
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O Captain, My Captain!
April 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on O Captain, My Captain! · Books, City Library, Main Branch, NH Room, Teens
April is National Poetry Month.
Tags: April·Charles Simic·Dead Poets Society·Donald Hall·Maxine Kumin·National Poetry Month·poems·poet laureates·poetry·poets·reading·Robert Frost·Robin Williams·Walt Whitman
Summer Stars
August 12th, 2010 · Comments Off on Summer Stars · Books, City Library
The Perseid meteor shower has been observed by mankind for almost two thousand years.
Tags: astronomy·Carl Sandburg·meteor showers·Perseids·poetry·Swift-Tuttle comet