New Library for Me and a Poetry Surprise

If you’ve been with me for a while in the blogosphere then you know I love libraries. As an awkward introverted kid I used to hide out in the library all summer, riding my bike there everyday, and getting to know the librarians.

On this blog I used to do a regular series of posts called The Library Stack where I would share my latest stack of library books borrowed. I eventual stopped it as I figured readers were tiring of seeing my library borrows, ha!

Well Tuesday I went and checked out the library near my new home which is part of the Denver Public Library System :

Image credit: denverlibrary.org

After meeting the librarians (yes I am a complete library nerd) and introducing myself as new in the area, I went immediately to my favorite section:

And then onto the crafting section which was paltry…

But no worries, my small community library doesn’t have a large catalogue BUT I have access to the entire Denver Public Library system and I had already put a bunch of books on hold and was there to pick them up!

Mine! (The “Hoga”s)

While wandering around the the library I discovered they had a special display for National Poetry Month:

I grabbed one and what a delight when I opened it up later at a local brewery we stopped at for a beverage:

It was the poem Dreams by Langston Hughes!

How amazing and meaningful to me because I created a Langston Hughes quilt for the show Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West.

So it was a very satisfying trip to my library with this poetry surprise!

I’ll close this post with my new Library Stack from my new library for those of you who remember me torturing you regularly years ago with images of my latest library stack 😉

(Oh I am very interested in making Bojagi curtains for my new house and this is what started my search for library books on the subject, so I could learn how to do the seams…)