Library Adventures

New Library for Me and a Poetry Surprise

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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 :

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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…)

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30 thoughts on “New Library for Me and a Poetry Surprise”

  1. OH! What a beautiful and apropos poetry surprise, and hooray for Libraries…I also am wanting to make bojaji curtains, I just didn’t Know they were a thing or what they were called!!! I am going to be busy this summer!

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  3. Tierney, this is a fun post. I was like you as a child, loving the library and reading endlessly. Seeing your stack of creative books makes me think I should renew my committment to our local library.

    I got goosebumps when you showed your selected poem. Your quilt is one of my earliest memories of you. You really had a special day.

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  5. I own twice as many craft books as that whole library has!! But how is it, that in all the stacks I have seen you borrow, all the books are new to me? I thought I already owned every possible craft book. 🙂

    So cool about the poem; I got goosebumps!

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  8. Distance to a library is one of my priorities when looking for a new home. I love your stack of books…more please. I’d not heard of Bojagi and had to google it. What a lovely idea for scraps and a curtain.. I look forward to seeing yours. How lovely to be able to choose a poem like that.. my poetry group reads poems on different themes- this nest time we are “doing” T S Eliot- I am being very brave and have chosen the first part of the Wasteland. I love the ifea of a hyacynth girl

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    1. I like that as a criteria for home selection 🙂
      I still cannot believe what poem I randomly selected – that was sort of magical. How wonderful you belong to a poetry group!
      If you’d like to see a nice video on a simple Bojagi (also known as Pojagi) curtain here is a video of one of my favorite UK YouTubers 🙂

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  14. Yay for return of the Library Stacks! I love seeing what people are reading. Glad your new library is a nice one – maybe you can persuade them to up their game in the craft section 🙂

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