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The Little Poetry Library

Minnesota Arts, Culture and History | Culture | KFAI
Modeled after the popular Little Free Libraries (littlefreelibrary.org), the Little Poetry Library looks like a weatherproof outdoor bookshelf. Situated at the corner of 39th Avenue and East Lake Street, this weatherized cabinet is stocked with poetry books, chapbooks, and periodicals. Local poets have responded generously to a request for donations of copies of their work. The always-changing set of books on the shelf will include titles by Carolyn Williams-Noren, Kristin Naca, Jude Nutter, Juliet Patterson, Kathryn Kysar, and many members of the Laurel Poetry Collective. Visitors can browse and borrow poetry, or leave behind poetry-centered books and periodicals. People who take books will be asked to return them if convenient, or keep them “in circulation” in another way; by passing them along to another interested reader, for example. Each volume in the library will have a library pocket inside its back cover, with a card where people can write notes to future readers. KFAI producer Susan Budig has the story.

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