Poem in Your Pocket Day

Celebrate Poem In Your Pocket Day on Thu., Apr. 14, 2011! The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. In this age of mechanical and digital reproduction, it's easy to carry and share a poem. Poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores.

How can you you get involved?

• Post pocket-sized verses in public places
• Hand write some lines on the back of your business cards
• Distribute bookmarks with your favorite immortal lines
• Add a poem to your email footer
• Post a poem on your blog or social networking page
• Project a poem on a wall, inside or out
• Text a poem to friends
  

Need a Poem for Your Pocket?

Browse the selection of poems at Poets.org.
Subscribe to the Poem a Day e-mail program.
Download pocket-sized Poem PDFs to print and share.
Visit the library's Poetry Resources page.

March is Women's History Month

March 8^th, 2011 is the 100^th anniversary of International Women’s Day. Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the U.N. has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programs and goals to advance the status of women worldwide. For more information see the library's Women's History page.