Celebrate National Poetry Month at the Library

This week’s column was submitted by Cathy Friedman, reference librarian at the .

O’ Poetry, Poetry, wherefore art thou poetry?
Everywhere. April is National Poetry Month and access to this art form will be highlighted in special ways inside and outside the walls of library.
She Walks in Beauty, a collection of poems compiled and edited by Caroline Kennedy, is the selection for the April 3 morning book discussion. The theme of this anthology is womanhood with poems by a wide variety of writers such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, W. B. Yeats, and Dorothy Parker.
A week later, on April 11, don’t miss meeting filmmaker Jon Siskel and the screening of his engrossing film, Louder Than a Bomb. This award-winning documentary follows four Chicago area high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world's largest youth slam.

Registration is available for both these programs on the library’s calendar.

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But hark! Every month and even every minute of the day there is a way to experience poetry from outside the library by using your Des Plaines Public Library card and the sources on the library’s website. Get lost in the selection of MP3 downloads of recited poetry through the music source Freegal. And when listening isn't enough, watch poets read their works and talk passionately about their craft at the streaming movie source Filmmakers Library. Poetry to read and listen to can also be downloaded from MyMediaMall.
Edgar Allan Poe said, "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." Walk in this beauty. It is at your doorstep.
Freegal Poetry Albums:
The Classic Poetry Collection, Poetry Readings, Poetry for Lovers, World's Greatest Poetry, The Very Best of Dylan Thomas
Filmmakers Library: 
C.K. Williams
Intimate Profiles of Five Major Poets
Something Wonderful May Happen: New York School of Poets

MyMediaMall eBooks and audiobooks:
Love by Danielle Steel
She Walks in Beauty by Caroline Kennedy
Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection

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