Nationwide Activities

Missouri

The Missouri Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival across Missouri through a statewide poetry contest (a poem on the topic "Why I Read") from July 29-Aug. 30, a statewide print publicity campaign, and the development of a flyer, suitable for reproduction, that will promote the National Book Festival and its Web site. The Missouri Center for the Book will send the winner of the poetry contest and a guest to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.where the winner and -properly presented by the table "host"-will greet other Missourians in the Pavilion of the States. The contest judges will select a number of outstanding poems for publication in a high-quality brochure, "Missourians Write About Reading" that will be distributed in the Pavilion of the States. The statewide publicity campaign will put a Missouri emphasis on the National Book Festival. It will include distribution of National Book Festival materials at three events: the Columbia Festival of Arts (Sept. 28-29), the annual conference of the Missouri Census Data Center (Sept. 5-6), and the Missouri State Library's Summer Library Institute (August 13-16). National Book Festival information will be posted on the Missouri Center for the Book's Web site.

Contact: Madeline Matson, phone: 573-751-2680, fax: 573-751-3612, e-mail: matsom@sosmail.state.mo.us