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March 21 is UNESCO World Poetry Day.
The next date is March 21, 2027. Dates follow Mountain Time, America/Denver. Stories below are from the archive.
Free and safe. No fee, no student email, and no trip taken alone.
A short prompt for a teacher to use with children. This page is for adults.
Write a four-line poem about a kind thing someone did. Read it aloud only if the writer wants to. No contest fee.
More stories a teacher can read aloud are in the Kids section.
CommunityThe new Pikes Peak Literacy Foundation is taking over the Imagination Library affiliate for El Paso and Teller counties and hopes to grow enrollment from about 9,000 children to about 29,000.
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CommunityChildren's librarian Amanda Bowden of the Portneuf District Library in Chubbuck won the Idaho Library Association's Librarian of the Year award. She leads storytimes for more than 400 preschoolers.
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