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Today is Poem In Your Pocket Day!!
Or rather was. For me anyway, it's over. But if you are reading this on 14 April 2011, it may not be too late for you to participate! Go and find a poem you like and print it out. Carry it around with you and read it to anyone you think might even vaguely appreciate it. Go to Poets.org if you are at a loss!
Do you already have a poem in your pocket? What is it? I'd like to read it!
I carried "Singing" by Robert Louis Stevenson from A Child's Garden of Verses and on the other side of the page "Leise Lieder sing ich dir bei Nacht" by Christian Morgenstern, for my German friends. I read them both to my German playgroup mothers. They loved it. They also thought it was wonderful that America celebrates such things. The cynic in me said, "Yes, well America celebrates everything!" And while that may be true that there is a Day For Everything, I don't think it is a bad thing per se. And I quite liked the idea of Poem in Your Pocket Day.
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Showing posts with label National Buy a Book Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Buy a Book Day. Show all posts
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
National Buy a Book Day - September 7!
Hi Everyone!
I'm a member of a couple of groups over at GoodReads.com and recently one of the members of Beyond Reality posted an idea of his: National Buy a Book Day.
We all know bookstores (brick and mortar ones anyway) are in trouble. Publishers and authors are having trouble. I love books. I have way too many of them. Wait a minute! Is that possible? Well, I barely have space for all my beloved books. Nonetheless, I would dearly love to support my favorite bookstore (A Room of Her Own) in Madison, my home town, but I'll have to settle with a bookstore here in Germany.
The idea is that you go to a real bookstore on September 7 and buy a new, full-price book. That's all. It's that simple. It can be any book, any price, but it should be new and not a mark-down, so that bookstore, author and publisher all garner the maximum profit from the sale.
If you want to read more go here. And if you want to help the initiative (which is the brain-child of one average Joe - Philip Athans - not anyone who really stands to profit from it), then post about it on your own blog, re-tweet it, link to it and mention it on any forums you might visit between now and then. I'm going to!
I'm a member of a couple of groups over at GoodReads.com and recently one of the members of Beyond Reality posted an idea of his: National Buy a Book Day.
We all know bookstores (brick and mortar ones anyway) are in trouble. Publishers and authors are having trouble. I love books. I have way too many of them. Wait a minute! Is that possible? Well, I barely have space for all my beloved books. Nonetheless, I would dearly love to support my favorite bookstore (A Room of Her Own) in Madison, my home town, but I'll have to settle with a bookstore here in Germany.
The idea is that you go to a real bookstore on September 7 and buy a new, full-price book. That's all. It's that simple. It can be any book, any price, but it should be new and not a mark-down, so that bookstore, author and publisher all garner the maximum profit from the sale.
If you want to read more go here. And if you want to help the initiative (which is the brain-child of one average Joe - Philip Athans - not anyone who really stands to profit from it), then post about it on your own blog, re-tweet it, link to it and mention it on any forums you might visit between now and then. I'm going to!
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