National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K-12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, curators, publishers, bloggers, and of course, poets marking poetry’s important place in our culture and our lives.
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Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, edited by Suzanne Lummis
Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015",
Wide Awake
draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted newer writers whose work speaks to the humanity, pathos and comedy, of what may be the most romanticized and scorned, disparaged and exalted, of the world’s great cities. Poets include David St. John, Wanda Coleman, Cecilia Woloch, Lynne Thompson, Timothy Steele, Kate Gale, Gail Wronsky, Terry Wolverton, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tony Barnstone, Robin Coste Lewis, William Archila and Melissa Roxas.
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Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski: Poems 1974-1977
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back
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Birds, Beasts and Flowers! Poems by D.H. Lawrence (1923)
Lawrence himself described this volume as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile - in Italy, France, Germany and the United States - this book is that most unusual of creations: a masterpiece of modernist nature writing and a masterful exploration of the possibilities of free verse.
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Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
#1
New York Times
bestseller
Milk and Honey
is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
The late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet presents a personal selection of her best work in this collection spanning more than five decades. Oliver, identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things.
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A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Includes 29 poems revolving around the title, selections written for oral readings with jazz accompaniment, and 13 previously published poems.
It has been translated into nine languages and there are now three-quarters of a million copies in print.
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Shape Me a Rhyme: Nature's Forms in Poetry by Jane Yolen
In this unusual collection, poems and photographs focus on shapes in nature. Some shapes are found in familiar places: A circle is the sun and a crescent is the moon. But there are imaginative surprises too: an alligator's tooth is a triangle and a frond's shadow forms a square, capturing throughout the beauty of shapes in nature in a playful way.
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Easter is Sunday, April 21
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Hoppi the bunny wants to win the egg-decorating contest so the Easter Bunny will choose him to help distribute Easter eggs, but instead, while everyone else is working on their decorations, he finds himself guarding an egg that has fallen from a robin's nest.
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This Easter-themed collection of Hidden Pictures® puzzles is inverted for a unique puzzling experience. Kids can use the included yellow highlighter to create fluorescent scenes and find hundreds of hidden objects.
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Step aside, Elf
--Peep on a Perch
is a book and plush boxed set that makes the perfect Easter gift. The book (ages 3-7) tells how the Easter Peep assists the Easter Bunny every year by decorating eggs and filling baskets. The soft plush Easter Peep included in the set can be perched anywhere throughout the home.
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Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes’s Egg tells an unforgettable story about four eggs, one big surprise, and an unlikely friendship.This sturdy board book edition is a classic read-alone or read-aloud full of humor, drama, and suspense that Kirkus, in a starred review, called “Gorgeous and thought-provoking.”
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Kids will have a blast solving the Hidden Pictures® puzzles, then placing the corresponding stickers in the blank spaces of the stories in whatever order they choose, creating a unique silly story from a multitude of possible combinations. This collection contains bunnies, Easter baskets, chicks, Easter eggs, Easter bonnets.
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The colors of the rainbow jump off the page in this colorful celebration of the Easter season. Young readers will love learning about colors along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this delightful board book filled with the joyful art of Eric Carle.
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Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis
presents a selection of devotional pieces on Jesus's resurrection from the author's essays, poems, and letters
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What is Independent Bookstore Day?
Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April.
Why celebrate independent bookstores?
Independent bookstores are not just stores, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent.
In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
Here is our schedule of activities throughout the day:
On-going exhibition in the coffeehouse: Papier mache work by Ulla Anobile
GUEST AUTHORS AND PRESENTERS:
10:30 AM – 3 PM:
Anthe Wosczyna, LITTLE MUSE DESIGNS, seed bead jewelry
10:30 AM-Noon:
STORYTIME with Caldecott winner DAN SANTAT,
Drawn Together
&
After the Fall
(ages 4-8)
Noon-1:30 PM
: STORYTIME with Disney animator BENSON SHUM,
Holly’s Day at the Pool
&
Go to Sheep?
(ages 2-4)
11 AM-1 PM:
SUSAN LA TEMPA, editor of
Paperback L.A.: A Casual Anthology : Books 1,2,3
11 AM-1 PM:
DARIO CiVON,
A MILLENNIAL FIELD GUIDE + GEN Z
1-3 PM:
JAMES ASHLEY, JPL Planetary Scientist, presents - Exploring Caves on the Moon & Mars
1-3 PM
: MARISSA KENNERSON,
Tarot
(YA Fiction) & Tarot readings by INANNAMOON, intuitive medium & certified spirituaL advisor
3-5 PM
: MARC YABLONKA,
Vietnam Bao Chi: Warriors of Word and Film
(Military History)
3-5 PM:
JOSEPH PUGLIA,
Girl with the Purple Ribbon
(Fiction set in the Vietnam War era)
3-5 PM:
Poetry Reading w/ CHARLES JENSEN,
Nanopedia
& SHEILA MCMULLIN,
daughterrarium
. Come early to sign up for Open Mic.
And, a Where’s Waldo contest, Poetry writing contest, give-aways, book drawings & more.
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Sunday, April 7, 4 PM
:
Moonday Poetry Reading
with
Suzanne Lummis
Saturday, April 13, 10 AM:
San Gabriel Valley Women Writers
meeting,
Framing and Plotting Your Novel
with Stacey Donovan
Thursday, April 25, 6:30 PM:
Nare Garibyan
poetry reading,
When Ruins Speak: A Journey of Poems
Sunday, April 28, 4 PM:
Yun Wang
poetry book launch and reading,
Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po
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Saturday, May 4, 10:30 AM:
Storytime with
Honest Magazine
: True Stories for Children (ages 8-12)
Saturday, May 4, 5 PM:
FROM MURDERS AND PSYCHIC FRAUDS TO ‘DIRTY JOHN’
:
Exploring Old and New True Crime Stories,
a panel of investigative reporters and a forensic specialist; moderated by
Melanie Hicken
with
Christopher Goffard, Barbara Schroeder, Clark Fogg
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NEW ON OUR LOCAL AUTHOR SHELVES
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FLINTRIDGE BOOKSTORE & COFFEEHOUSE
1010 FOOTHILL BLVD. LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, CA 91011
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