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Missouri Center for the Book
Commissions Poet Laureate Broadside
In honor of Missouri's first Poet Laureate, the Missouri Center for the Book has commissioned a limited edition printing of Moon Walk Missouri, by Poet Laureate Walter Bargen.
To purchase your own copy of Moon Walk Missouri, visit:
Columbia Books
309 S Providence Rd
Columbia, MO 65203
(573) 449-7417
colbooks@tranquility.net
www.columbiabooksonline.com
Walter Bargen, Missouri's first state Poet Laureate.
Missouri's poet laureate highlights area writers in St. Louis Post Dispatch
Missouri's first poet laureate, Walter Bargen, begins a new feature for the Post-Dispatch this week. Every other week, he will choose a poem by a Missourian and write a short introduction to it....(read more)
Walter Bargen recently published an essay in the current issue of New Letters magazine, about some of his travels as Missouri's Poet Laureate. You can read the entire essay at www.newletters.org.
ReadMOre
ReadMOre is a "one-book" reading and discussion program organized annually by an ad hoc association of librarians and readers. The program originated in the St. Louis Metro area and is working toward statewide participation. Participants are engaged every year in selecting the title for the following year. The Missouri Humanities Council provides a web site and various other services to the association. This year’s selection for ReadMOre is A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. For more information about this program, go to:
http://www.readmoremissouri.org/
The Center for the Book
in the Library of Congress
The Missouri Center for the Book is an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. For more information on the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress go to:
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/