Our New Trailer for Wake

We finished our Name That Book media entry for the book trailer for Wake!

http://digg.com/u1UPaf

Friends of Houston Public Library Book Sale

Saturday and Sunday at George R. Brown Convention Center. The Friends support The Children's Summer Reading Program, library events, and advocacy and recognition for the library system in the community. Sunday fill a grocery bag of books for just $10!

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Share Your Favorite Poetry

Tell Ms. Hunter your favorite poem and she will post it on the blue "Our Favorite Poetry" banner in the library.

Call for Poetry

April is Poetry Month. Students, please give your original poetry to Ms. Hunter, to post on this blog.

Meta-Four Houston Slam Poetry Tomorrow

See the 2010 Slam Team at the Rock the Block Festival from 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Emancipation Park on Elgin and Dowling
(If it rains, then the festival moves to the St. James School/3129 Southmore.)

Spotlight on a Poet

Mobile Poetry

No wireless, no computer, no book? Try Mobile Poetry from Poetry.org.

Poetry Collections by Alice Walker

Once (1968)
Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)

Student Poetry

To sickness and health I am happy to be your husband and you
Are happy to be my wife.
When I first saw you my heart was betting like a horse.
When I go to sleep I have dreams about you;
Your smile your laugh and your smartness.
You are a star of my heart and I am the moon of your eyes
And I care about you so that is why I love you with all my heat
And I always be there for you.

Kelvinp.

This Week's Favorite Poets

Julius took a poll of library patrons. Our favorite poets are:

Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Se7en
Tupac
John Milton
Katie King
James Baldwin
Susan Jeffers
'lil Wayne
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
Donna Garrett
Edgar Allen Poe
Daniel Garcia
Walt Whitman

Next Week is National Library Week!

Push

One copy has just been returned. It is available for checkout!

African American Library and Museum at the Gregory Lincoln School

Yesterday, I visited the library and museum. It is a part of Houston Public Library. The library and museum is located in Midtown/Freedman's Town/Historic Fourth Ward.

Name That Book Media

Laura and Jazzca are busy working on their entry for the media contest!

April is Poetry and Jazz Month!

Stop by the library and check out the words of James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, TUPAC, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya, Jim Morrison, and Houston native Daniel Garcia!