{"id":20816,"date":"2018-04-04T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=20816"},"modified":"2018-04-12T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:20:20","slug":"hear-the-wisconsin-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20816","title":{"rendered":"Hear the Wisconsin poet laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinpoetlaureate.org\/profile\/karla-huston\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karla Huston<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinpoetlaureate.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin&#8217;s 2017-18 Poet Laureate<\/a>, will present some of her work on Thurs., Apr. 5th, at 5 p.m. in Laurentide in the 3rd-floor &#8220;living room area.&#8221; It&#8217;s a celebration of Poetry Month! There will be some refreshments (RSVP to kokana@uww.edu encouraged but not required) and a display of poems of place and identity by UWW international students and Washington Elementary School fourth graders, and some of the international students will read their work also.<\/p>\n<p>You can celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/national-poetry-month\/home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Poetry Month<\/a> in other ways as well! Go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/national-poetry-month\/home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official web site<\/a> to participate in Poem-In-Your-Pocket Day (April 26), go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poets.org<\/a> to sign up for a poem a day, and more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/body_electric.jpg\" alt=\"cover of Body Electric books\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Andersen Library offers many books of poetry that you can enjoy, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/fulldisplay?docid=UWI71396466770002121&#038;context=L&#038;vid=WW&#038;search_scope=WW_VOY&#038;tab=default_tab&#038;lang=en_US\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Of poetry &#038; protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin<\/em><\/a> (3rd-Floor Main Collection, PS591.N4 O33 2016), <a href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/fulldisplay?docid=UWI71362228430002121&#038;context=L&#038;vid=WW&#038;search_scope=WW_VOY&#038;isFrbr=true&#038;tab=default_tab&#038;lang=en_US\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Darkened rooms of summer: New and selected poems<\/em><\/a> (online via <a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/whitewater-ebooks\/detail.action?docID=1598089#\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ProQuest Ebook Central<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/fulldisplay?docid=UWI71315126240002121&#038;context=L&#038;vid=WW&#038;search_scope=WW_VOY&#038;tab=default_tab&#038;lang=en_US\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The body electric: America&#8217;s best poetry from the American Poetry Review<\/em><\/a> (3rd-Floor Main Collection, PS586 .B54 2000), and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk) if you&#8217;d like assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karla Huston, Wisconsin&#8217;s 2017-18 Poet Laureate, will present some of her work on Thurs., Apr. 5th, at 5 p.m. in Laurentide in the 3rd-floor &#8220;living room area.&#8221; It&#8217;s a celebration of Poetry Month! 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