Library Hosts the Newly formed Simsbury Union of Slam Poets 

All teens in grades 9-12 or aged 14-19 from any school welcome! Meetings are held every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. around the large blue table in the southeast corner (street side) of the library’s upper level. 

In addition, there will be three public poetry slams, AUTHENTIC TEEN VOICES, held on Thursdays December 10, February 11 and April 8 in the Library program Room. For more information, go to www.simsburyusp.wordpress.com or email Aaron Burrick at aburri507@gmail.com

Summer Reading

CONGRATULATIONS to the 69 students who participated in our teen summer reading program, reading over 500 books among them! While we realize that the eighteen great prizes donated by local businesses created an incentive to read, all of the participants no doubt know that reading is also its own reward! Special congrats go to our grand prize winners:

Dan Bodell won a $50 Best Buy gift certificate
David Kalamarides won a $50 Barnes & Noble gift certificate
Alex Rechen won a $50 Hoyt’s Cinema gift certificate
Courtney Langdell won a Farmington Valley YMCA youth program membership and rock climbing party for 15 donated by the YMCA 

Kudos go to the participants of Amanda Mulé’s Teen Improv Workshop who put on an impressive performance at the end of summer bash on August 21, which also featured music by Richard Saunders.  

Special thanks go out to the Friends of the Simsbury Public Library, whose support made all of our teen summer programs, including the Wii Hour and Open Mic, possible!

Open Mic Participants		End of the Summer Bash