Atwater Library celebrates Queen’s Jubilee
The only local entity I’ve noticed doing anything special for the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth is the Atwater Library, which has put up an exhibit and has held a small writing contest.
I submitted a piece of poetry but never heard back.
Blork 17:48 on 2022-06-02 Permalink
OMG the typography on that PDF is hard to look at!
Kate 18:10 on 2022-06-02 Permalink
It’s a pretty standard Microsoft Word with Times New Roman look.
SMD 00:36 on 2022-06-03 Permalink
I happened to be there! The winning poem is surprisingly anticolonial, and quite good.
Blork 10:16 on 2022-06-03 Permalink
@Kate, that’s not what I’m seeing. I’m seeing a non-serif font with literally the worst kerning I’ve ever seen. Screenshot: https://www.blork.org/pix/atwater-pdf.png
MarcG 10:43 on 2022-06-03 Permalink
@Blork, is it opening in your browser or in a PDF application? I imagine it’s your browser trying to be smart and choking on it. Try downloading the file and opening it with Acrobat.
Joey 10:43 on 2022-06-03 Permalink
@Blork trouble’s on your end. Here’s what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/KeFlWrF
EmilyG 11:53 on 2022-06-03 Permalink
Is there a place where we can see the winning poem?
Kate 12:24 on 2022-06-03 Permalink
EmilyG, I think you need to drop by the library. All I can tell you is it wasn’t mine. I think they would have told me.
Afreina 12:46 on 2022-06-03 Permalink
The exhibit is really good. I didn’t expect it to be so elaborate and on two floors. My poem won – tbh I was not expecting it to. I can’t attach an image of the poem here but will try to paste it here when I can.
Thank you @SMD 🙂
H. John 23:50 on 2022-06-04 Permalink
Kate & Afreina, if you could paste your poems I’d appreciate it.
But no guarantee I’ll pass them on to Paddington Bear (if you watched the Party from the Palace you understand).
Kate 15:37 on 2022-06-05 Permalink
EIIR, a poem
Elizabeth, scion of twits,
Is a woman of average wits,
Yet she grappled with fate
And has grown to be great,
As all the world over admits.