"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go"

April is a popular month for librarian-friendly celebrations, both locally and country-wide. To wit:

• National Poetry Month
• School Library Media Month
• International Children's Books Day (Apr. 2)
  
• National Library Week (Apr. 12-19)
• National Library Workers Day (Apr. 14)
• Support Teen Literature Day (Apr. 16)
• Immigrant Heritage Week (Apr. 17-23)
  
• Earth Day (Apr. 22, aka Earth Week, Apr. 20-27)
  
• Festival of the Chapbook (Apr. 23-25)
  
• Poem in Your Pocket Day (Apr. 30)
• And don't forget Passover, Holy Week, Easter, and my favorite, Arbor Day
  

Here in the city, our public libraries have National Poetry Month covered. Check out NYPL's poetry-themed blog posts and their Poem in Your Pocket Day participatory writing experiment. In Brooklyn, BPL hosts a Poetry Coffeehouse each Wednesday in April at the Dweck Center, as well as other poetry-related events at branch locations (search their calendar). And the Academy of American Poets, founder of National Poetry Month, offer up tips for librarians and a calendar of poetry readings on their New York page.

TOMORROW, Apr. 11: Judson Memorial Church will play host to the 3rd annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, "a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide." The Fair is accompanied by a slew of workshops, skillshares, and other events of an intellectually radical bent.

[Post title quotation by Christopher Morley, from John Mistletoe.]