Princeton Library Lounge

We are celebrating National Poetry Month at
PPL with several poetry events as well as a special project called Podcast a Poem. We have recorded 26 poets from the greater Princeton area for the podcast project and you can hear a "Poet a Day" on PPL's Poetry Podcast blog. Visit our library website at http://www.princetonlibrary.org and click on the purple box on the left or else visit the blog directly at http://pplpoetpodcast.wordpress.com/We kicked off National Poetry Month with an amazing reading by Elaine Terranova and Darcy Cummings on April 2nd. Our next event is on April 17th when Carlos Hernandez Pena hosts Voices: A Multilingual Poetry Night at 7 pm in the community room. In this multicultural poetry reading, Princeton-area poets will read poems from around the world in their original language. A reading of its English language translation will follow each poem, and both texts will be projected on the screen as the poets read them.

We will close the celebrations on April 25th at 7:30 pm with a special U.S. Poet Invite featuring the Princeton-area poetry performance group Cool Women. The Cool Women will perform their "Food For Thought" program which highlights poems on the the theme of food. They are the winners of numerous awards for their poetry and appear at venues across the country. More information on these and other library programs can be found on the library's web site or in Connections, the library's quarterly newsletter which is available online at http://www.princetonlibrary.org/connections/index.html