Tag Archives: libraries

Fighting Back against Book Censors

Judy Blume weighs in on book bans while a Washington Post pundit shows how we can find ways to resist.

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Read to Resist Fascism

Book bans are spreading around America. Neil Gaiman makes an impassioned plea for libraries.

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If Librarians Were Honest…

This Joe Mills poem reminds us that libraries are dangerous–because they change lives.

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Books Held to the Chest, Close to the Heart

Nikki Giovanni celebrates a librarian who underwent humiliation from whites to get her the books she wanted.

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No Frigate Like a Book

Friday To end the week, I share one of Ilya Milstein’s enchanting illustrations, along with the Emily Dickinson poem that it reminds me of. We start off in a library and, next thing we know, we have been transported “lands away.” I haven’t always admired “There is no frigate like a book,” perhaps because I […]

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What Our Libraries Reveal about Us

Merging my library with my father’s have given me a new appreciation for him.

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A World of Books amid a World of Green

Treat yourself to two delightful poems about books and gardens by the Victorian/Edwardian poet Richard Le Gallienne.

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A Poem in Praise of Libraries

In his new collection of poems, Norman Finkelstein has one of the best poems I have encountered about libraries. The poem captures the paradoxical nature of libraries, how they both preserve the past but look forward to the future.

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Listen Carefully–The Books Are Whispering

I gave a talk last night to Leonardtown, Maryland’s Friends of the Library about—surprise!–“How Literature Can Change Your Life.” It was a busy day, what with writing the talk and turning in final grades and going to one last committee meeting and attending a retirement party (for which I wrote a bit of doggerel) and […]

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