MISSOULA — A little library on Sherwood Street is prompting big thoughts with its poetry collection and groups that gather there.

"We've collected about like 600 books from national and international presses and also been able to garner some donations from local community members," Please Poetry Library co-founder Celia Easton Koehler said.

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Poetry isn’t just Shakespearean sonnets and rambling rhymes with meaning behind every single word.

“Poetry is just a good way to engage our skills of observation and attention and connection with our surroundings," Easton Koehler said.

For Koehler and other co-founder Alicia Watkinson, reading poetry is about being present with a text.

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