Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Complete poetry booklet now online - almost!

Thanks for your patience, poets and readers! We're pleased to have nearly all of the First Place and Honorable Mention poets online in the booklet accessible from this link:
http://issuu.com/saschag/docs/8th_annual_poetry_contest_2009_-_part_1_

I say nearly all, because a crash of my old computer resulted in the loss of five of the scanned poems. I am working on getting duplicate copies of these superb poems from the parties involved, and will post them as soon as possible. Ah, technology!

In the meantime, we welcome you to share your poems right from this blog! We'll also be announcing a poetry event in the near future as part of our summer reading program, as well as lots of other fun events. The full summer schedule will be available by June 1.

If you have any questions, suggestions, impressions, please contact me: Sascha at 468-3890 or sgardiner@leaplibraries.org

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Hagaman Library Children's Poetry Blog

Welcome to Hagaman Memorial Library Children's Poetry blog.

On Tuesday, April 14, we'll be celebrating 27 outstanding young poets from grades 2-8 and from throughout East Haven's school system and home schoolers. In truth, we are really celebrating all of the more than 300 poets who participated in our 8th Annual Poetry Contest.

Enjoy winning poems from the seven first place winners, as well as from twenty poets cited for Honorable Mention. Our goal is to share our poetry and our thoughts and feelings about poetry, and continue the tradition started by children's librarian Carolyn Siedzik in 2002 to rejoice in the beauty of words and the power of putting our thoughts and dreams on paper.

Check back soon to enjoy extraordinary poetry!