Friends of the Library meeting & presentation

The Friends of the Winfield Public Library will be celebrating National Poetry Month at their upcoming April meeting, to be held on Monday, April 11^th at 7:00pm in the WPL Community Room.  This program is free and open to the public.   

The Explore Poetry evening will celebrate poetry in a variety of forms.  Sheryl Erickson, Friends Board President, will lead the program.  Erickson says attendees will be invited to read, share, and write poetry, either their own or from favorite poets.  “The poems can be fun, expressive, meaningful, expansive, whimsical, hard-hitting…whatever you want them to be!” says Erickson. 

National Poetry Month has been celebrated annually since April 1996 as a way to remind the public that poets and poetry play an integral role in our culture, helping us to appreciate the world in which we live and to empathize with one another. 

For more ways to recognize National Poetry Month, community members are invited to visit Winfield Public Library’s back patio, where a selection of poems from Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends will be on display.  Beginning on Friday, April 1^st, community members can also access a weekly poem by calling the Winfield Public Library at (620) 221-4470.  A new poem, appropriate for all ages, will be recorded every Friday during the month of April.