Here at the Murray Library, we absolutely adore Saskatchewan Library Week. Besides being an excellent way to promote libraries in our beautiful province, it’s also the best week of the year to bring out our inner poets. We (Lara, Kelly, and our newest member, Brittany S.) maybe had a little too much fun making book spine poetry, but we also got a lot of engagement with the amazing display Brittany made.

We made it easy for everyone to make their own poetry by putting out a variety of interesting titles.

Here are some example titles people could use on the display:

• Dangerous Bodies
• Exceptional Violence
• Hot Thespian Action!
• Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

And just like that, a poem is born!

We posted a poem on our Facebook page for each day of Saskatchewan Library Week, so we’d like to think we now know where to find the best book titles (at least at Murray Library). If you want to make darker poems, we’d suggest searching the history section from D – DX (lots of war books with titles to reflect that tone). If you’re more into silly poems, we’d suggest checking in the North Wing (Language and Literature), especially in the PR9299s. Alternatively, if you’d like to create racier poems there’s the women and gender studies section in the HQs (but you didn’t hear that from me!).

Here are some of the poems we created this week:

This is one of Lara’s creations. I think she was feeling wistful for the Royal Wedding when she made this.

This is one of mine (Kelly). It received a “#inspired <3<3<3” comment on Facebook that made me very proud.

If anyone else celebrated Saskatchewan Library Week by making book spine poetry, we’d love to know about it!