April 1-30

Celebrate National Poetry Month! 

April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating with a Limerick Contest! Put your creativity to the test and craft a clever library-related limerick for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card and a WPL prize package!

✨ What’s a Limerick?
A limerick is a short, humorous poem with five lines and a bouncy rhythm. The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, while the third and fourth lines form a separate rhyming pair (AABBA). Here are a few examples:

A few bookworms who came in to browse,
Got lost in the stacks for three hours.
They surfaced at last,
And said with a gasp,
“We live here now—this place is ours!”

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At Willard, the readers delight,
But the spirits love to lurk late at night.
If a book hits the floor,
Don’t run for the door—
It’s just the Grey Lady getting a fright.

✍️ How to Enter:
📖 Write an original limerick about a library-related topic.
📧 Email your entry to willard@willard.lib.in.us with the subject Poetry Contest by April 30. Be sure to include your name and contact info. 
📝 Submit as many limericks as you’d like—more entries mean more chances to win!

🏆 How to Win:
📌 Library staff will vote on the top entries.
📲 The finalists will be posted with the poet's first name only on Willard Public Library’s Facebook page 
👍 The limerick with the most likes at 5:00 PM on Friday May 2nd will be crowned the winner!

✨ Unleash your inner poet and join the fun! 

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