Latino Poetry Grants: $1200 for Programs, Info and Application
Penguin Random House and Library of America are offering $1,200 grants for programming to support Latino poetry and humanities in our libraries through their Latino …
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Your Book Club!
What comes to mind when you think of poetry? Do you imagine rhyming verses in flowery language about Nature? Do you picture the poet as …
Time Machine Tuesday: Thanksgiving Songs and Poems
A century ago the Colorado Superintendent of Public Instruction published a series of “holiday books” for teachers. The books were full of poems, plays, stories, …
Time Machine Tuesday: Eugene Field in Colorado
You may be familiar with the Eugene Field branch of the Denver Public Library, but have you ever wondered, who was Eugene Field? And what …
Time Machine Tuesday: Springtime!!
Hooray for the first day of Spring! Coloradans have always enjoyed springtime, with our mild and sunny weather. A century ago, however, Coloradans celebrated more springtime holidays …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado’s Poet Laureates
Was Colorado the first state to have a poet laureate? It depends on who you ask. Alice Polk Hill, Colorado’s first poet laureate, was appointed …
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Day
Her gleaming mountains capped with snow, Rolling plain and high plateau, Make the land the best I know– Sunny Colorado! — from the poem “Sunny …
Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Since April is National Poetry Month, it seems an appropriate time to celebrate Colorado’s own Thomas Hornsby Ferril, one of our state’s greatest writers and …
Folk Arts in the Classroom
Attention teachers: as you probably know, one very meaningful way of teaching children the arts is by teaching about other cultures. This not only challenges the children …
Colorado has a Poet Laureate.
Per Executive order A2010-127, available at our library, Colorado has an official Poet Laureate.David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington. David Mason’s family …