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Celebrate Poetry!
Here are a few links to share with you:
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, shares his passion for storytelling through a new monthly GRAB THE MIC newsletter and "Write. Right. Rite.," a twice-weekly "Grab the Mic" video series. DETAILS: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-028/
Poets Laureate Joy Harjo, Robert Pinsky, Natasha Trethewey and Juan Felipe Herrera talk to Ron Charles of The Washington Post about "The Poetry of Home" in a series for National Poetry Month. DETAILS: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-029/
Find lots to do here, including a poem a day: https://poets.org/poems-kids
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Alberto Ríos - 1952-Don’t Go Into the Library
The library is dangerous—
Don’t go in. If you doYou know what will happen.
It’s like a pet store or a bakery—Every single time you’ll come out of there
Holding something in your arms.Those novels with their big eyes.
And those no-nonsense, all muscleGreyhounds and Dobermans,
All non-fiction and business,Cuddly when they’re young,
But then the first page is turned.The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge,
The aroma of coffee being madeIn all those books, something for everyone,
The deli offerings of civilization itself.The library is the book of books,
Its concrete and wood and glass coversKeeping within them the very big,
Very long story of everything.The library is dangerous, full
Of answers. If you go inside,You may not come out
The same person who went in.
