Event categories: Library Programs

ReadBoston Storymobile

Monday, July 11, 2022 (6:30 PM – 7:15 PM)

Monday, July 18, 2022 (6:30 PM – 7:15 PM)

Monday, July 25, 2022 (6:30 PM – 7:15 PM)

Monday, August 1, 2022 (6:30 PM – 7:15 PM)

Join us for interactive stories for children told by professional storytellers! The program is best suited for kids ages 3-8 years old, but the whole family is welcome. Every child who attends takes home a free book. Weather permitting, we will meet in the side yard next to Mt. Vernon Street, so bring a blanket or towel to sit on. No registration is required for individuals, but groups must call ahead to the branch to register. 617-325-3147

May 23 | 12 - 7:30 pm

May 24 | 10 am - 3 pm

Stock up for summer reading!    All books $1 unless otherwise marked.

Fiction | Nonfiction | Mystery | Romance

Children's | Young Adult | Classics

Supporting the West Roxbury Branch Public Library

Examples of the Friends’ support include Adult Book Discussion Group, Children’s Crafts, Annual Poetry Contest, Magazine subscriptions and Museum passes.

Virtual Awards Ceremony

Thursday, May 26, 2022 | 6:30 PM

Award categories include each of grades K-8, high school, adults

THEME: Starting Over

Submissions due by: April 10, 2021

How to enter:

Please include your name, address, phone number, age, and e-mail. Students: please include school and grade.

Submit poems one of two ways:

• E-mail to FriendsoftheWestRoxburyLibrary@gmail.com
• Mail to:
  Poetry Contest c/o Peg Sawyer
  199 Corey St.
  West Roxbury, MA 02132

Virtual Awards Ceremony: May 2021

(day and time to be announced)
Award categories include grades K–8, high school, adults, and seniors.
Questions? E-mail to FriendsoftheWestRoxburyLibrary@gmail.com

Contest Sponsored by:

The Friends of the West Roxbury Branch Library
FriendsoftheWRLibrary.org

Notes to Contest Participants from Mary Pinard, Poet and Contest Judge

✍ Write and enter poems that connect to the contest theme. (Note that the theme has many facets and angles — don’t be afraid to take it in new and original directions.)

✍ Explore your own connections to the theme and consider writing a poem from your personal experience.

✍ Use your imagination! Be original and avoid clichés.

✍ Consider what will help you express your poem’s idea, story, image, or impression. Some possibilities include:

• Word choice
• Voice: who is speaking in your poem?
• Imagery: language that helps paint pictures, sensations
• Sound: including rhythm, repetition, and rhyme
• Form or type: free verse, sonnet, haiku, or something you invent

✍ Revise, and revise again: your first draft is only a beginning.

The 31st Intergenerational Poetry Contest

September 2020

West Roxbury Branch Public Library

Theme:  Space

Final Judge’s Results

Grade 2

1^st Place:  Amaya Millner-Barrios, Untitled (first line: “High above the clouds, into the black sky, out of the”)

Grade 3

1^st Place:  Eden Ruth Wilson, “Never”

Grade 4

1^st Place:  Roisin Ni Cheallaigh Cook, “Mr. Moon”

Grade 5

1^st Place:  Annabel Kristine Halloran, “Claustrophobic”

Grade 6

TIE for 1^st Place:

Gavin Wainwright, “Space”

Grace Morash, “Sally Ride”

• Honorable Mention:   Lily Courtney, “Astrophobia”
• Honorable Mention:   Ella Mahoney, “Space”

High School

TIE for 1^st Place:

Morgan Frost, “covid-19”

Hari Narayanan, “The Liminal Space”

• Honorable Mention:  Emma Clark, “An Unfilled Space in My Heart”
• Honorable Mention:  Maia Frost, “Negative Space”

Adults

1^st Place:  Nina Kallen, “Confessions in the Time of Coronavirus”

• Honorable Mention:  Christopher Donahue, “Felix”
• Honorable Mention:  Adam Finelli, “Man/Turkey”

Seniors

1^st Place:  Alice P. Sullivan, “A Space Inviolate”

• Honorable Mention:  Carol A. Amato, “An Ordinary Girl”
• Honorable Mention:  Rick Hardy, Untitled (first line: “Between eyes”)
• Honorable Mention:  Mary E. Kavanaugh, “Freedom’s a Song”
• Honorable Mention:  Phyllis Iva Meserlian, “Adventure into Space”

• Honorable Mention:  Gary Strichartz, “Spacing Out”

Final Judge: Mary Pinard

Boston Public Library presents Story Mobile at the West Roxbury Branch Library: Mondays in July

The ReadBoston Story Mobile will visit the West Roxbury Branch Library once a week for 4 weeks this summer to provide fun storytelling events and free books for all children in attendance.

Dates: July 8, July 15, July 22 and July 29
Time: 7:00 - 7:30 pm
Suitable for: Children (Ages 0-5)