A little spontaneous black out poetry session underway in Ohrstrom’s Baker Reading Room – celebrate National Poetry Month by making one of your own!
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Welcome back! Looking for a creative outlet to get your brain power flowing again? Celebrate National Poetry Month by making book spine poetry at the library. Stack books so that their titles, from top to bottom, create a poem. On … Continued
A new book display is up in the Baker Reading Room – a gathering of books dealing with immigration in America. The poem ‘Home’ by Warsaw Shire accompanies the display and begins with: “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” Stop by to read the poems and check out a book today. #ohrstromlibrary #bookdisplay #books #immigration #immigrants #home #warsanshire #poem #poetry #refugees #librariesofinstagram #bakerreadingroom
When the weather gets frosty, why not head to Ohrstrom and dive into our new and featured poetry books? These three titles will get you thinking about topics including… The nature of language: Archeophonics, by Peter Gizzi Wesleyan … Continued
Below is a 3-minute video describing how to pull the everyman/amateur poetry from the library’s First World War Archive. Looking for biography/analysis of well-known WWI poets? Highly recommended are 2 of the library’s eRef collections: Salem Literature and Gale … Continued