Kick-off for Adult Programming at DPL

 

April “A Reading Season” Blog

 

April is National Poetry Month and DPL is celebrating with interactive displays. Come in and try your hand at Paint Chip Poetry, check out some poetry books, pick up a poem for your pocket and vote on your favorite poet and poem. The display cases will have information about poetry and be a work in progress for the paint chip poetry display. If you don’t feel creatively inclined to write a poem, fill out our survey to help us find the favorite poets and poems of our patrons. April 29^th is Poem in Your Pocket Day, but we will have our annual poem postcards available to pick up and share by the middle of the month.

We have reinstated Story Time and Book Babies in the Youth Services room, so if you have small ones be sure to check out the early literacy programs on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. This month we will also partner with Magical Memories, AL for a special Story Time and Easter Egg hunt at Delano Park on Tuesday, April 12^th at 10am.

If you are taking the Challenge this year or want to learn more about it, the Book Club will meet on Thursday, April 7^th from 12noon to 2pm in the Community Room at DPL. Come find out about the Challenge and what other people are reading for the clues and tasks. We would love to see you and hear about what you are reading.

On the Hebrew calendar, the 27^th of Nisan (April 27^th) is Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Israel. Nisan is the first month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar; on the Gregorian calendar it usually falls in March-April. The day was set aside to commemorate the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. The April Task is to read a book about the Holocaust or Jewish resistance. Survivors of the Holocaust have repeatedly asked that the world not forget the victims or survivors of this painful part of history. Read a book to remember those who were lost and those who survived, to honor the memory of both.