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TCPL is looking for short poems by local poets for Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 18. Guidelines and the submission form can be found at tcpl.org/poetry. If you have any questions, you can email poetry@tcpl.org. 

TCPL is looking for short poems by local poets for Poem in Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 27. Guidelines and the submission form can be found at tcpl.org/poetry. If you have any questions, you can email poetry@tcpl.org.

Take a look at last year's TCPL Poem in Your Pocket Day Anthology, which had the theme of courage.

TCPL is looking for short poems by local poets for Poem in Your Pocket Day on Friday, April 29. Guidelines and the submission form can be found at tcpl.org/poetry. If you have any questions, you can email poetry@tcpl.org.

We're excited to partner with Community Arts Partnership for their annual Spring Writes Literary Arts Festival!

We're pleased to present a Social Solidarity Haiku window display, now through May 15, 2021!

Viewable from the North Reading Room windows facing Green Street, these original haiku were created by community members during three separate Social Solidarity Haiku workshops held throughout the pandemic. The workshops were led by former Tompkins County Poet Laureate Melissa Tuckey, and were offered to help raise the community’s voices with frontline essential workers. The display was designed in collaboration with Makerspace Librarian Cady Fontana.

TCPL is looking for short poems by local poets for Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 29. Guidelines and submission options can be found at tcpl.org/poetry. If you have any questions, you can email poetry@tcpl.org.