Sep 30, 2022 We Recommend — Author Meets Reader with Joy Harjo
Join the University of Utah and the Tanner Humanities Center for the latest Author Meets Reader series, featuring Joy Harjo -- an internationally renowned performer, inspiring woman, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, who is currently serving her second term as the 23rd US...
Apr 25, 2022 Book of the Week — Broncho Vs. Bicycle
"The first we saw of that high-toned tramp war over thar' at our Pecos camp; he war comin' down the Santa Fe Trail astride of a wheel with a crooked tail, a skinnin' along, with a merry song, an' ringin' a little warnin' gong...
Apr 17, 2022 Book of the Week — Easter
"Above in sun and wind the fertile rains, Below in clamorous waters thriving fish, and fields of summer filled with living bread, and fields of autumn filled with living wine." Easter W.R. Johnson (1933-) with relief prints by Claire Van Vliet West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1970 Z232.5 J36 J639 1970 Claire Van...
Mar 30, 2022 Books for Poetry Month & Library Week
It’s Women’s History Month, it’s nearly spring and Pride Week, the semester is half-way over, but the pandemic is still on!! Here are five hopefully-inspiring books for March 2022: ...
Feb 21, 2022 Book of the Week — Parking Lots
"All across America we travel, on and on and I remember Heather saying, All I need is a post office and a liquor store, but the sky is good, with reasons drawn clear like afternoon light." Parking Lots Clarence Major Illustrations by Laura Dronzek Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1992 PS3563 A39 P3 1992 Clarence Major was born in...
Feb 07, 2022 Book of the Week — Furrows
"In the furrows of the world the paths of planting the hoe-trails of our people WE can only be do from what we are...
Jul 12, 2021 Book of the Week — Mountain and Water Book
“If a scholar only stays in one place, he will be blocked by one small river and become narrow-minded and ignorant. He must travel everywhere to see human affairs, the social customs of the north and the south, mountains and rivers, and to broaden his...
Jun 21, 2021 Book of the Week — Traveling Through the Dark
Pioneers, for whom history was walking through dead grass, and the main things that happened were miles and the time of day – Traveling Through the Dark William Stafford (1914-1993) New York: Harper & Row, 1962 PS3537 T143 T7 1962 Poet William Stafford was born and raised in Kansas,...
May 03, 2021 Book of the Week — Incantations by Mayan Women
She of great writing, she of the glyphs INCANTATIONS BY MAYAN WOMEN / FATHERMOTHERS OF THE BOOK AMBAR PAST WITH XUN OKOTZ AND XPETRA ERNÁNDES Ámbar Past Chiapas, Mexico: Taller Leñateros, 2005 2nd edition PM4466 Z95 E533 2005 Incantations by Mayan Women is the first book Mayan people have created, written,...