Biblio File, Poetry
'A Small, Portable Truth': NYPL's Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019
I wish for you a small, portable truth you can take
anywhere—no foreign adaptors needed,
no translation required and nothing lost in it.--the first stanza of Maggie Smith's poem for PiYP Day 2019
On the ground, our library staff members are reporting record numbers of poem enthusaists! They're in branches all over the city, and in just one room at our 42nd Street location, more than a thousand poems were distributed in a matter of hours.
Examples of our #PocketPoems displays:
To download all our poems, print them, and distribute them yourself, check out the PDF online!
To see displays from around NYPL, check out our Facebook album:
For poetry-related programming at your local branch, visit our National Poetry Month Events page.
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