Poetry Box

My friend Desmond recently shared one of Pablo Neruda's odes with me, namely his "Ode to the Book."  This poem was the perfect kick in the pants to get motivated to build a poetry box.  Like a little free library poetry boxes are all about sharing poetry that you enjoy with others.  One picks a poem, prints out some copies (I printed 20 of Neruda's) and when they're gone repeat the process.

I was talking with a neighbor last night and our plan is to have everyone contribute poems.  So once the Neruda Ode to the Book poems are gone it's another person's turn to pick, print and share a poem.  Make sense?  Another fun way to play with words.  We also put the magnetic poetry boards back up on the library box.  They're now located on the sides of the box so folks may see them a bit better.

Enjoy, Stephen

Summer Stuff

Wowza Yowza!  While we were off vacationing all sorts of things happened around the box.  First off we got stuffed.  Stuffed in a good way with an assortment of kids books from one of our new neighbors.  Thanks to Shadiin & Gabe for such cool kid additions to the collection.  Check out the lower shelf which is bursting with goodies:

We also had a bit of local press from the Register Guard. Randi Bjornstad emailed and asked to come visit. Her email coincided with our neighborhood library walk and Randi wrote an excellent piece featured in the Sunday Lifestyle section of the R-G on June 22nd. A very nice piece covering our library and others around town with a nice shout out to the national movement. So Summer's here and go find some books! Lots of fun stuff in the box, I actually pulled some books out and we had a twenty-five volume set of Harvard Classics donated to trickle out into the circulation. Find a beach, read a book, thanks to all for the fun times.

Stone Age Selfies?

Beachcomber?