The Second Floor Librarians

Free reading and lecture by Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen who will discuss the importance of creative expression for women and read from her latest poetry collection, The Voluptuary. Wednesday, September 28 at 7:00

On Monday the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced.  Here are the winners for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biography.  Click here for the full list of winners.

I know that it is not Spring yet, but the recent increase in length of daylight and occasional blue skies have made me want to bust out my gardening tools and start considering exterior home improvements. I am also starting to be followed around by my own personal Spring poem.

This Saturday, January 22nd there will be a celebration of William Stafford’s birthday at the library, beginning at 1:00 pm in the Main Meeting Room and going until 4:30 or so.

April is National Poetry Month, a month when I hope to leave the “mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful” (e. e. cummings) world of Oregon winter behind. April 29 is Poem In Your Pocket Day. Choose a poem, pocket it, and carry it.  Share it with family, friends, and coworkers or just cherish it. The Academy of American [...]

Emily Dickinson’s Poem, A Certain Slant of Light usually dogs me in the late Fall.  Like a song I cannot get out of my head parts of  it replay  in my brain until I am forced to seek out  the full poem.

I am signed up for our haiku workshop this Saturday, February 28th. Suzy Conway, one of our awesome Philomath librarians, will lead us, and does she know haikus. She wrote a book of them called Lights Along the Road, which she co-authored with Janak Sapkota.