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Haiku Contest 2023

Celebrate National Poetry Month with DC Public Library

Celebrate National Poetry Month with DC Public Library! Residents ages 6 and up are invited to submit a haiku to the 2023 Haiku Contest from Apr. 1 - 30. Write a haiku about one of the following themes: ✎ a DC moment / observed in DC, ✎ something you're grateful for, ✎ seasons, or ✎ something small and wild.

Southeast Library Modernization Project

Design process is underway

We're modernizing the Southeast Library. DC Public Library has hired the design/build team of Whiting-Turner Construction/Quinn Evans Architects for the $23 million transformation of this historic Carnegie library. The design process is underway. Learn more and follow the project's progress at dclibrary.org/southeastlibraryrenovation.

Guest Curator

Coretta Scott King Award Challenge at Southeast

Celebrate the legacy

Help Southeast Library celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Awards!

DC Health Updates COVID-19 Community Programs

DC Health is suspending the COVID-19 Test Yourself DC kiosk program and rapid test distribution at DC Public Library Locations as of Feb. 28. To learn more please visit the DC Health website.

Press Releases

Southeast Library Turns 100

Looking back at 100 Years of the Southeast Library

D.C. History

DC Public Library 2nd Annual Dinosaur Roaring Contest

2022 DC Public Library Dinosaur Roaring Contest

DC Public Library wants to hear you roar in D.C.'s second annual Dinosaur Roaring Contest!

This year, DC Public Library once again called on dinosaur fans of all ages to share their best impressions of their dinosaur breed of choice. Across D.C., neighbors recorded their best killer pterodactyl shrieks, mean tyrannosaurus growls and wicked brontosaurus grunts! See the winning entries below!

Bling Your Baby Contest

Send holiday cheer to the entire community with your hilarious photos!

‘Tis the season of giving, and photos of your babies are number one on DC Public Libraries’ wish list (your children, your pets, your sweethearts).

Evil Laughs in Film

Which villain are you?

DC Public Library’s Evil Laugh Contest is officially underway, and the countdown to our deadline has begun. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick Tock. You have until the stroke of midnight on Friday, Oct. 15 to make a librarian shiver.

New Kid Read-A-Likes for Adults

For those who are participating in the DC Family Read of Jerry Craft’s graphic novel New Kid, here are five graphic novels for adults you should definitely check out. These books, much like New Kid, also tackle the themes of being torn between two worlds, racism or prejudice and diversity in a moving way.

Graphic Novels - Adults

Southeast
Neighborhood Library

Haiku Contest 2023

Celebrate National Poetry Month with DC Public Library

Southeast Library Modernization Project

Design process is underway

Coretta Scott King Award Challenge at Southeast

Celebrate the legacy

DC Health Updates COVID-19 Community Programs

Southeast Library Turns 100

Looking back at 100 Years of the Southeast Library

2022 DC Public Library Dinosaur Roaring Contest

DC Public Library wants to hear you roar in D.C.'s second annual Dinosaur Roaring Contest!

Top 10 reads for 2021

A very subjective list

Bling Your Baby Contest

Send holiday cheer to the entire community with your hilarious photos!

Evil Laughs in Film

Which villain are you?

New Kid Read-A-Likes for Adults

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