living, speaking poetry
Poetry is necessary! It supplies our minds and souls with valuable access to this mysterious gig we call life. Beyond that, I’ll let you in on a secret: poetry is fun. Somewhere along the line,...
View Article3 Poems by E.E. Cummings Poetry Discussion
"fourth-dimensional abstraction" by E.E. Cummings The exhilirating and wildly popular 3 Poems by… Poetry Discussion Group continues this month with a visit to the lovely, perplexing and sometimes...
View ArticleOur spirituality book club has been reincarnated and born again
At our last meeting, we decided to change the Pathfinders Spirituality Book Club schedule to a series format—we will meet in September, October and November, rather than every other month. We also...
View ArticlePittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Book Club
On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. in the Music Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Library (Oakland), we begin a program about which we are very excited, the Pittsburgh...
View ArticleGet Together and Read
photo courtesy of http://www.book-club-queen.com You might not know it, but October is National Reading Group Month. Strangely enough, people all over the country like to get together and discuss the...
View Article3 Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
Our most recent meeting of the 3 Poems By…Poetry Discussion Group focused on the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa. The poems we discussed were ”Facing It” from the collection Dien Cai Dau, “The Towers”...
View ArticleWhat America Ate
Tonight I will be facilitating Dish! A Foodie Book Club. We will discuss The Food of a Younger Land, edited by Mark Kurlansky. This book is a compilation of previously unpublished essays about how...
View ArticleIt’s a Mystery to Me . . .
Photo courtesy of http://www.borinvanloon.co.uk/loonblankpage.html ©2004 Copyright Borin Van Loon Did you know that there are over 35 awards given annually for mystery books? How is that even...
View ArticleNot a Devil to Read and Not a Violin Nightmare
Last time around, I gave you a listening list of horn music in preparation for our Pittsburgh Symphony Book Club discussion of Jasper Rees’ A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the...
View ArticleSpoilers (Warning: Does Not Contain Spoilers)
Unlike the Pittsburgh Symphony Book Club, which is a part of my job as a music librarian, my other book club is an outside of work affair. I know, one would think we librarians would get enough book...
View ArticleBook Club Bonanza
The nice thing about book clubs is sometimes you’re forced to read a genre or author that’s outside of your regular ‘safe zone.’ And sometimes you can force the other people in your group to read the...
View ArticleHelp Me Choose: YA Book Club Edition
Before I ever worked for the Library, I was a member of a Young Adult book club. Our book club has gone through a few different iterations, but in the past year or so, we’ve settled into a pretty great...
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