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Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from some of the 2024 Selected Poets. This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Featuring special guest Iowa Student Poet Ambassador Tanya Rastogi.

Presenting Poets:

Lucas Askelson, "Big and Small"

Melodee Bashir, "A December Walk with Leo"

Jacquelyn Bengfort, "The Secret Universal Order of Adjectives" 

Maya Dahdaleh, "Bombshell In My Marj Il Hamam, Amman"

Alyssa Denneny, "Plane Ride"

David Duer, "In the Art Museum with Franklin, a Third Grader"

Cecile Goding, "Being of Sound Mind"

Reed Hagan, "Fuzzy Bees & Clovers"

Jennifer Horn-Frasier, "For My Fledglings"

Evelyn Maiers, "Earth"

Jenna Mather, "Haiku from the End of the World"

Gaby Maymí, "Hollowed"

René Paine, "Starling"

Annabelle Pedersen, "Your Presence is a Room in My Brain"

Reeve Pedersen, "Mind Killers"

Rasmus Schlutter, "Glass Genocide, Seven Lines for Palestine"

April Xu, "What If Everything Shattered"