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To celebrate National Poetry Month, I've compiled a brief list of six (roughly) contemporary books of poetry that help display the range of styles, content, and ambitions that poetry offers readers today. With more poets writing now than perhaps any preceding age, it's literally impossible to read and enjoy all that the last couple of years have produced, let alone the last few decades. But never fear! There are poems to satisfy just about any reading appetite, and the DC Public Library has an excellent collection to choose from.
Do you enjoy the rise and fall of powerful crime families in your fiction?
How about salacious, sinful love interests and unabashedly immoral protagonists?
Or women characters who take what they want when they want it and men who turn their tears into vengeful bullets?
Then you may be an urban fiction fan!
Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited arrival of spring! We will make bluebird paperchains from Jean Van't Hul's book, The Artful Year: Celebrating the Seasons & Holidays with Crafts & Recipes.
This activity is for all-ages, and will run from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, March 21.
We look forward to seeing you!
Do you like to be left scratching your head after finishing a book? Do you enjoy asking yourself, “What, exactly, did I just read?” What Did I Just Read?! Book Club may be just what you’re looking for!
Once a month, we’ll meet to discuss an innovative work of literature that avoids taking the straight path from A to B. These books sometimes start at B, or they skip B, or they never really leave A. Perhaps they just circle around point C.
Join us in celebrating Women's History Month, and win fantastic prizes!
Every Monday in March, a new trivia question will be posted on Twitter (@dcpl) and Facebook. Respond by Friday with the correct answer using #herstoryDCPL, and get entered to win a different prize each week! We'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the week.
Do you like to be left scratching your head after finishing a book? Do you enjoy asking yourself, “What, exactly, did I just read?” What Did I Just Read?! Book Club may be just what you’re looking for!
Celebrating Black History Month!
Join us Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 4:30 p.m. or 7 p.m. for a film screening of Middle of Nowhere (2012).
Writer and Director: Ava DuVernay
Starring Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Lorraine Toussaint.
Drama. 1 hr, 39 minutes.
Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Celebrate Black History Month on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m.
Join us for a discussion of King Hedley II, written by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, August Wilson.
Copies of the book are available at the Takoma Park Library.
Call 202-576-7764 for more information.
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