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Celebrate National Poetry Month with us! You are invited to an After-Hours Poetry Reading on Saturday, April 25th at 4 pm. Experience local voices!
Spring Showers Bring May Flowers
Did you know we have a Seed Library? Stop by and “check” out seeds for the upcoming growing season with your library card, yours to keep!
Book Club and Staff Picks
See what everyone is reading at the Library in April.
Join us afterhours, Friday April 24th at 5:30 pm, for Montana’s Poet Laureate, Allen Morris Jones. In his first full-length poetry collection, Allen Morris Jones explores themes of late-life fatherhood, aging, mortality, and finding clarity, all rooted in the Montana landscape with humor and honest reflection. The book, praised for its insight and emotional clarity, won the High Plains Book Award and is noted for its personal, often humorous, and deeply felt observations on everyday life.
Horses, heart and high plains! Join Mary Beth Gajda for her first children’s book reading and discussion of Apsaalooke traditions on Saturday, April 18th at 1 pm. Christina, a member of the Apsáalooke tribe, has just had her twelfth birthday. As a present, her father gives her a beautiful buckskin horse, and her grandmother promises to help Christina make her jingle dress. All seems to be going well until an accident disrupts the plan to ride her horse in the Crow Fair. Christina learns that even the best-laid plans sometimes fail. But with the guidance of her grandparents, she finds the answers she seeks.
We will discuss “And of Clay Are We Created,” by Isavel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden during Short Story Club on April 9th at 10:00 am. Story copies are available online and in the library. Inspired by the 1985 tragedy of 13-year-old Omayra Sánchez in Colombia. The story focuses on a reporter, Rolf Carlé, who covers the rescue of a girl named Azucena trapped in a mudslide, ultimately confronting his own traumatic past.
Ms. Marguerite’s TBR is Joy Sullivan’s poetry anthology. First, you must realize you’re homesick for all the lives you’re not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart. So begins Joy Sullivan’s Instructions for Traveling West–a lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown. Mid-pandemic, Sullivan left the man she planned to marry, sold her house, quit her corporate job, and drove west. This dazzling collection tells that story as it illuminates the questions haunting us all: What possible futures lie on the horizon? What happens when we heed the call of furious reinvention?
Ms. Jennifer’s TBR is The Correspondent by Virginia Evans on Libby. “Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle… Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?” Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.
New Materials!
