There are just 20 days left to enter Poets' Night Out 2023!  Do you or do you know someone who lives in, owns property in, or attends school in Alcona, Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Montmorency, Oscoda, Otsego, Presque Isle, or Wexford counties AND loves to write poetry?  If so, submit entries by the 25th of January either dropped off at the Traverse Area District Library (main library) OR postmarked by that date.  There are specific submission instructions for seniors, students and everyone else which can be found at tadl.org/pno.  There are even submissions for classrooms--so if you know a teacher who may be interested in submitting class poems--send this info their way.  

Poets’ Night Out is an annual juried poetry contest and poetry reading event. Winners will have their poems printed in an annual chapbook as well as being asked to read their poems at an evening event on Sunday April 23, 2023 at 7:00pm.  This is a fun, relaxed, no pressure event where everyone just loves poetry and wants to celebrate and bask in the ambience of beautiful words. 

Help spread the word!  We want to break submission records this year!  Attached is a poster of the event if libraries would like to post. (tyia)

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Betsy Myers
Reference Department
Interlibrary Loan/Programming
Traverse Area District Library
610 Woodmere Ave
Traverse City, MI  49686
231 932-8502

I just finished The Whittiers by Danielle Steel.  It was a nice, sweet, all about family read. I also just listened to the latest by Phillip Margolin, Murder at Black Oaks and was pleasantly surprised my favorite narrator Therese Plummer read it! Highly recommend.