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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 …

Book Club Sets, CSL News

Michael Peever

April 4, 2022

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 …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

November 26, 2019

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 …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

April 30, 2019

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, …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

March 20, 2018

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 …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

October 24, 2017

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! …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

August 1, 2017

Thomas Hornsby Ferril

Since April is National Poetry Month, it seems an appropriate time to celebrate Colorado’s own Thomas Hornsby Ferril, one of …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

April 3, 2012

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 …

Colorado State Publications Blog

Amy Zimmer

March 13, 2012

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 …

Colorado State Publications Blog

State Publications Library Staff

August 27, 2010

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