WHO: Poet Linda Pastan, a former Maryland poet laureate  
          Representatives from MSDE's Division of Library Development
          and Services

WHAT: Ms. Paston is visiting Maryland public library systems this spring as part of The Maryland Center for the Book's (MCFB) program, Poetry's Here @ Your Maryland Library. Following Ms. Paston's reading of her poetry, there will be a presentation of a "Laureate's Shelf" containing the works of six former Maryland poet laureates.

Poetry's Here, a year-long project designed to bring poets and poetry to Maryland public libraries, is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through the Division of Library Development and Services, Maryland State Department of Education to the Maryland Humanities Council.

MCFB, a program of the Maryland Humanities Council, promotes books, reading, libraries, Maryland writers, and Maryland's literary heritage.

WHEN: March 26, 2008
           11:00 a.m.

WHERE: Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
             (LBPH)
             415 Park Avenue
             Baltimore Maryland 21201
             (410-230-2444 or Catherine Rubin, 410-230-2453)