There is still time left to celebrate your inner poet as part of National Poetry Month. Here are a few ways you are invited to celebrate with Tacoma Poet Laureate, Josie Emmons Turner: CELEBRATE YOUR FAVORITE POEM: POEM IN YOUR POCKET WORKSHOP Sunday, April 22 1-2 pm Museum of Glass, 1801 Dock Street Free Bring a copy of your favorite poem (can be written by you or someone else) to decorate & celebrate. Led by Tacoma Poet Laureate, Josie Emmons Turner. NATIONAL POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY GIVE AWAY Thursday, April 26 5 pm Union Station Link Light Rail Stop at S. 19th & Pacific Ave. (by History Museum) Free Meet at the light rail station in front of the Washington State History Museum to give and read favorite poems to the public. Led by Tacoma Poet Laureate, Josie Emmons Turner. Turner is the 2011 - 2013 Tacoma Poet Laureate. She earned her Masters in Fine Arts from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and has been published in California Quarterly, Backstreet Review, the Floating Bridge Review, and the anthology In Tahoma's Shadow. Her broadside Pagoda was recently published by Springtide Press. She has been an artist in resident at Centrum and teaches writing and literature at Clover Park High School. Naomi Strom-Avila Cultural Arts Specialist City of Tacoma 747 Market Street, Room 900 Tacoma, WA 98402 253.591.5191