Celebrate National Poetry Month with Your Book Club!
What comes to mind when you think of poetry? Do you imagine rhyming verses in…
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Time Machine Tuesday: Thanksgiving Songs and Poems
A century ago the Colorado Superintendent of Public Instruction published a series of “holiday books”…
Time Machine Tuesday: Eugene Field in Colorado
You may be familiar with the Eugene Field branch of the Denver Public Library, but…
Time Machine Tuesday: Springtime!!
Hooray for the first day of Spring! Coloradans have always enjoyed springtime, with our mild and…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Poet Laureates
Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate? It depends on who you…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Day
Her gleaming mountains capped with snow, Rolling plain and high plateau, Make the land the…
Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Since April is National Poetry Month, it seems an appropriate time to celebrate Colorado’s own…
Folk Arts in the Classroom
Attention teachers: as you probably know, one very meaningful way of teaching children the arts is…
Colorado has a Poet Laureate.
Per Executive order A2010-127, available at our library, Colorado has an official Poet Laureate.David Mason…