Poetry Challenge #186-Books on the Move!

If readers can’t come to the library…

…we’ll bring the library to them! That might not be the official Bookmobile motto, but it should be! Bookmobiles, more correctly, book “wagons” have been making the rounds since 1850’s (at least), first in Cumbira, England. And here in the US, since 1904 when Mary Lemist Titcomb, a librarian in Washington County, Maryland, with the help of a $2500 Carnegie Grant, turned outfitted the country’s first library on wheels.

And later, in 1935 the Pack Horse Library Project providing reading materials to rural portions of Eastern Kentucky.

But communities need not be rural, or remote, poor, or needy to need a bookmobile.

Many schools, communities, children—even now, especially now when so many school libraries are being replaced with Tech Centers ahem—depend on bookmobiles, and mobile librarians to keep them reading!

Poetry Challenge #186

…We’ll Bring the Library to Them!

If the early bookmobiles were pack mules and horse drawn wagons, and today’s bookmobiles are buses and vans, what will bookmobiles of the future look like?

Write a poem about bookmobiles and/or a bookmobile librarian at the helm—past, present, or future.

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing!

Don’t Think About it, just do it!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 4 years ago. Some 186 weeks ago we began creating prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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