I just learned that April 18th is Poem in Your Pocket Day!

The idea is very simple: find a poem that you really like and then take it with you and share it with people you know. One mustn’t be limited by just traditional pockets – go paperless and quote a few lines in your emails, or on our favorite social media page, or your blog. Here are some poetry collections in the Nonfiction Department Literature Room to use as a starting point for channeling your inner wordsmith:

Join us this Saturday for a special library-wide event celebrating countries and continents around the globe:  Passport to the World.  In the Fiction Department, we’ll be featuring the literature and cultures of Argentina and Canada between 1:00 and 3:00 pm.  You can test your “football” knowledge in our soccer challenge (the #1 sport in Argentina), try your skills in a basketball shoot (invented by a Canadian), play a friendly game of Trivial Pursuit (also a product of Canada), or watch a talented pair of entrancing dancers perform the Argentine tango to traditional music.  We’ll also have prize drawings throughout the day.  The afternoon-long program culminates in the Library Theatre, where John Scalici will lead an interactive Drum Cir