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Teen Post-It Poetry at Westover

Teens visiting the Westover Branch Library are invited to create a poem on a post-it in honor of National Poetry Month.

Many poems have already been posted. Some staff favorites include:

I Hate Poetry
and yet here I am

and

Try to see past the
outside, look within,
for,
appearances
can
be
deceiving

Stop by Westover's teen section and check them all out for yourself!

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