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April is National Poetry Month and, while the Virtual Village is not the “book department” of the library, we would be remiss if we passed up this opportunity to merge technology literacy with language literacy.

The Poetry Foundation has created a series of videos called Poetry Everywhere which is  “a series of short poetry films featuring poets reading their own work, animated interpretations of much-loved poems, and celebrities reading personal favorites, produced by WGBH and David Grubin Productions, and student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s docUWM media center.” These films can be found on the Poetry Foundation’s website or their YouTube channel.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are displaying several of these videos on the flat screen TVs here in Virtual Village.

“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

“The Language” by Robert Creeley

And, of course,

“Branch Library” by Edward Hirsch