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April is the perfect time to explore the power of words and language as Amarillo Public Library celebrates National Poetry Month with multiple opportunities to read poetry and create your own!
Words that Remain
Head over to the Northwest Branch throughout April to participate in this ongoing Blackout Poetry project. Blackout or Erasure Poetry is the art of marking out most of the words on a page to create an entirely new work of art and poetry. It’s also a great way to enhance critical thinking and develop wordplay skills. We’ll supply book pages and markers; you supply the creativity! Don't forget to share your creations on social media using #APLBlackout!
TEEN EVENT—Magnetic Poetics: Self-Made Stanzas
Magnetic poetry is another creative writing activity where poets creatively arrange individual words into poetry. In this program, participants can create their own magnetic poetry sets. We’ll provide magnets and printed words, but you can also use colored pens to create a set as unique as you are! That’s happening Tuesday, April 23 at 5:30 PM at the Downtown Library!
Poetry Reading with Tess Taylor
Bring Your Own Lunch and join us for a lunchtime poetry reading!
Tess Taylor’s body of work deals with place, ecology, memory, and cultural reckoning. She has published five celebrated poetry collections including The Misremembered World, The Forage House, Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, and Rift Zone, one of the Boston Globe’s best books of 2020. Her book “Work & Days” was one of the New York Times best poetry books of 2016, and her work as a cultural critic appears in in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and The New York Times. In fall of 2023 she published her first full length poetry anthology: Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them, a collection of contemporary gardening poems, for an era of climate crisis.