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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Jetzt open Café Aegis with today's Library theme of "Library location donations" - all items in today's library were donated in some of the locations we have opened in: Leipzig, San Francisco, Antwerp, London, Budapest, Rotterdam, Norwich, Portland, Edinburgh. Come Join Before We Travel On! #TIPL

Image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian at the library with the "open" sign

Image of The Itinerant Poetry Library selection of titles in today's library, including works by Lorine Niedecker, Jen Bervin, Barb Tetenbaum, Diane de Prima and many more.

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ulm: Next library opening! We'll be operating in the delightful environs of Aegis café (tomorrow) 28.07.26 from 17-20:00hrs. Location: Hafengasse 19, Ulm, DE 89073. Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Library has arrived in Ulm! Opening heute @ Stiege Herdbruckerstraße 30, 89073 Ulm, 18-21:00hrs! Today's library theme? "Cruising the Library": Come Get Your Library On! #TIPL

Image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian sitting at The Itinerant Poetry Library. The Librarian is holding a pen and looking askance.

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We are open Leipzig! At the delightful @pfuschcafe Café Pfusch 14-17:00hrs... Come Join B4 We Travel On! Today's library theme? "Queer Eye For The Library" #TIPL

Image shows there library table with items available to borrow including works by Getrude Stein, Sappho,WS Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Berryman

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Berlin! Die Bibliothek ist öffnen jetzt @cafe_plume 📚 Today's library theme? "Little books for large minds". Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL

Image of the library sign "Free Poetry Library: Join before we travel on..." and the library's "Open" sign

Image of today's library selection, books placed onto the library table

Image of the library with the inscription "Today's library theme? Little books for large minds" and in German "Die Bibliothek ist öffnen!

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ich bin eine Berliner Bibliothek! Öffnet morgen @cafe_plume Warthestraße 60, 12051 Berlin 14-18:00hrs Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL bit.ly/library020

Image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian sitting at The Itinerant Poetry Library, holding quill in left hand and with Library sign in front with writing: "FREE POETRY LIBRARY JOIN BEFORE WE TRAVEL ON"

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Celebrating our 20th anniversary (2006-2026) we return to the start of where we wandered TWENTY years ago! If you joined the library in Berlin in 2006 then congratulations we are finally back in town 😂 Deutschland "Ich bin ein Berliner Bibliothek" Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL

Image of the Librarian's hand with the Library's Germany office "Büro" open

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Congratulations2 our 2500th member who received a "Certificate of Accidental Library Merit" & meaning every 69.2 hours we have been signing up a new member for the continuous period of the last 7,213 days (June 2006-March 2026): we’re a lean, mean library machine 💪! #TIPL #TheItinerantPoetryLibrary

Image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian standing next to the 2500th new library member, both holding the "Certificate of Accidental Library Merit"

Image of the "Certificate of Accidental Library Merit"

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Norwich! You were PHENOMENAL! Not only did u knock it out of the park with new members signing up @queerfest - all NINETEEN of YOU! But also - drum roll - amongst that lovely people pile one of you became our TWO THOUSANDTH FIVE HUNDREDTH Valued Patron of the Library (VPL) 🤩 We CANNOT BELIEVE IT!

Image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian with eyes closed in a "Librarian reverie" sitting in front of the library table with books on top

Image of a Chalkboard sign with the words "Free Poetry Library: join before we travel on" written in chalk and a sign saying "OPEN" placed in front of the Chalkboard

Bird's-eye view of the library collection of books and pamphlets including works by Geraldine Monk, William s Burroughs, Ed Dorn and Lenny Bruce, all in today's library with the theme of "Under the Queer Skin"

Image of two new library members standing in front of the Library and each reading an item from the collection

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

As per our official Operating Hrs we are currently "inconveniently closed" HOWEVER you're in luck *Norwich* as we'll be "conveniently OPEN" in yr delightful environs 4 a @queerfestnorwich special selection ASAP aka 01.03.26, 12-14:00 hrs: Come Get Your Library On! 🤓 #TIPL #THEITINERANTPOETRYLIBRARY

The Itinerant Poetry Librarian smoking a cigarette wearing the Library "CLOSED" sign

Poster for QueerFest promoting the opening of The Itinerant Poetry Library in Norwich on 01.03.26 from 12 to 2pm at Anteros Arts Foundation, 7-15 Fye Bridge Street

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The Metro NY Library Council is creating an outdoor library in Westchester County. We now own 26 acres — and this wknd we’re hosting a group of international librarians to help us think about what this place can be! It’ll soon be open to the public + usable by all our 100s of member institutions ☺️

The group walking up a trail, lined with stones quarried from the site 100 years ago

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

All #Public #Libraries closed by successive Brit. gvrnmnts (lack of imaginative) policies, starting with the Carnegies for a theme & ending at the Edward Edwards memorial - who is definitely turning in his grave over the shredding of his public libraries vision that was the origins of the 1850 Act ⚡

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Delighted2 welcome 6 new Valued Patrons @ today's Library in #norwich w some @salenagodden.bsky.social James Kirkup Kathleen Raine Herbert Burke @barbtetenbaum.bsky.social Gertrude Stein Lawrence Bradby & co. amongst today's library items, special thanks2 @rachelmcw.bsky.social 4 libr* assist #tipl

The Itinerant Poetry Librarian is sitting behind the library table, holding up a membership card to inspect it and the person attempting to join the library (who remains out of the frame)

The Itinerant Poetry Librarian is reaching across the library table to point to a specific title. A new Valued Patron of the Library, wearing a puffer jacket and woolly hat leans in to inspect the title.

The Itinerant Poetry Librarian and a new Valued Patron of the Library between them hold a long scroll, stretching across the room, on which is inscribed an Allen Ginsberg poem.

The Itinerant Poetry Librarian is sitting at the library table, next to them on the table appear the signs "Open" and "Free Poetry Library: Join Before we travel on".

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

RIP Tony Harrison...newly arrived in the library last week! "The best clock's only wound for layings out / so the stillness isn't tapped at by its ticks. / The settee's shapeless underneath its shroud. // My mind moves over silence and Aeneid VI."

Cover image of Tony Harrison's poetry pamphlet "Eloquence", title text embedded in red rectangle.

Title page of Tony Harrison's "Eloquence" dedicated "To Gordon, much love T. 2/91"

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Queens Public Library @qplnyc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

New Yorkers rely on their libraries for high-quality programs and materials, all for free. But NYC’s libraries are facing rising costs, along with growing demand for our services. That’s why we’re asking you to send the message: #InvestInLibraries! queenslibrary.org/support/take...

The words "Libraries Are For Everyone. Invest In Libraries." on a black background.

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Is it an external journey to the end of the night?

Hong Kong skyline at night, view from balcony

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"As Apollinaire describes in Zone, on a morning walk: 'You read the handbills the catalogues the singing posters / So much for poetry this morning and the prose is in the papers". #TIPL

Picture of a mobile library operating on Macau

Roads to Happy valley and Kowloon with skyscrapers in the background

Sign in Hong Kong central library reading: "Reference library: Except with the permission of the librarian or when accompanied by an adult, a person under 12 years of age again not enter or use the reference library."

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

"A book is a library. In turn, a library is a town, full of handouts, colour adverts, covers of magazines and fence-like screens."... #TIPL

Library stamp from Hong Kong Central library

Cityscape view of skyscrapers and blue sky

Black and white photograph, view of harbour looking out over boats moored towards backdrop of skyscrapers

Black and white photograph, harbour view with skyscrapers in background

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John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Robert Bly. From: Collected Poems (Norton, 2018).

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Absolute banger at tonight's @britishlibrary.bsky.social "Libraries and AI" event by @cilip.bsky.social CILIP president Sue Lacey Bryant with excellent #librariantakedown of cardigan stereotype. Felt like a CILIP prez ready to wrestle for the cause (we're with you all the way pal 💪)!

Picture of speakers on stage at British Library event "Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? Held at British Library, London on Thursday 23 January 2025. The panellists for this event were:
Sue Lacey Bryant, President of CILIP, Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Information Mobilisation at Manchester Metropolitan University; Svein Arne Brygfjeld, Special Advisor on AI at the National Library of Norway; Rob Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation at the National Library of Scotland; Dr Tom Chatfield, author and tech philosopher; Dr Mia Ridge Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections at the British Library.

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We'll be sending our librarian lackey to the 23rd January event to take notes since we consider Library Threat level: SEVERE ⚠️ (on issues of data privacy, intellectual freedom etc.)

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

👋 Library here! Would appreciate an ad!

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

@granardbooktown.bsky.social Let us know if u need a travelling library of "lost and forgotten" poetry (our official acquisition policy) in town for the festival? <librarian@tipl.info> No doubt we can find a couch 2 crash on while we're there (The Librarian needs sleep otherwise grumpy librarian!) 😁

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Guerilla poetry library at your service 🫡 Please whack us on this so we can be of use :-)

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Can you whack us in there Valued Non Patron?

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

We still ploughing our itinerant poetry furrow: 2026 is our 20yr anniversary (😱)...hope2make it back2San Fran where we've left 388 Valued Library Patrons; or indeed Vancouver (55), Leipzig (105), Helsinki (29). We remain free, for all, & always "reaching the parts other libraries have yet to reach".

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Time and the universe being what it is, we are delighted to announce that after much searching this item has come back into our collection, so in celebration of #NPD Hurrah! #NationalPoetryDay #LibraryWallOfShame

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Back in 2006, in an Antwerp bathhouse, where we were operating in our 1st year of being, we lent out “The Heart of the Ancient Balcony” & the borrower became recalcitrant, never returning this item (yes, we’re talking about you, Xavier Roelens, our first ever entrant to The Library Wall of Shame!).

The colophon page of Glyn Pursglove's "The Heart of The Ancient Balcony", published by Writer's Forum 1977

Front cover of "The Heart of the Ancient Balcony"

Page 12 of "The Heart of the Ancient Balcony", reading "Is not the fat valuable?"

Page 10 of "The Heart of the Ancient Balcony" reading "What has the girl got on?"

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Thank you kindly for the heads-up, and therefore see* you there! (*We'll be sending The Librarian's dogsbody in our actual personhood absence as we don't intend to guerilla library at this event but she'll take notes on this topic on our behalf!).

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Sending you best library love and auspicious literary vibes ♥️ for these days ahead!

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

👋 ahoy! Special collection here 😁😎

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

"I'm never bored and never poor as long as I have my library card" - Diamond Dave, San Francisco c.2007 (Valued Patron of our Library)

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

Rotterdam library operations continue! Come Join Before We Travel On #TIPL

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

We've moved on! Next up is a guerilla OG library operation, as #PIFR don't know we coming 😂 (ok we tagged them so they do now lol). Come find us somewhere in the building... rumour is the toilet block requires reading material 😉 Opening ASAP (better get a move on!): Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL

Image of The Librarian with information about today's library which is at LantarenVester 20:00hrs+

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Boom! First library location of the day in the bag! We'll be opening @leeszaalwest (Rijnhoutplein 3, 3014 TZ Rotterdam) from 14hrs: Come Join Before We Travel On! #TIPL

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

RIP The Brainwash Cafe (laundromat cum bar cum comedy club cum open mic poetry spot) 1989-2017 in San Francisco which also featured as LIBRARY location when we opened there in 2006-7!

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The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Come Get Your Library On! We're delighted to be opening at the British Library this Friday (Oct 13), for their Steampunk Lates event. We'll have a special selection of The Itinerant Poetry Library tomes: Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL

Poster image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian promoting an event at The British Library (Steampunk Lates) on Friday October 13th, 19:30-22:30hrs

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