Winter weather closure

Friday, January 23 and Saturday, January 24: The library is currently scheduled to be open regular hours. 

Sunday, January 25 and Monday, January 26: Chapel Hill Public Library will be closed due to hazardous winter weather forecasts. All programs are cancelled. If you have items due soon, please hold on to them if possible. For updates on library hours and programs Tuesday and beyond, please check our website and social media. 

Right to Read (& Write) Youth Poetry Workshop

Program Type:

Special Events

Age Group:

Kids, Teens
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  • This event is for registrants age 11 to 18.

Program Description

Event Details

The Right to Read (& Write) is a political poetry writing workshop that strives to encourage an understanding of poetry as a vehicle for voice and action. In this workshop, participants (grades 6-12) will practice using the form of blackout or erasure poetry to respond to educational policies that aim to censor books and limit intellectual freedom and free speech. The participants will be making poetry postcards on the importance of intellectual freedom and free speech that they will then be encouraged to local, state, and federal legislators.

Things to Know

Accessibility

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