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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Library will host several events during October and November in honor of Toni Morrison, the celebrated author who passed away earlier this year.
All events are free and open to the public.
Each library will present a special display about Toni Morrison and her works. The public is invited to learn more about this powerful author.
The library is offering copies of Morrison’s book, “The Source of Self-Regard,” while supplies last.
Lakeport Library’s Evening Book Club will meet in the library at 1425 N. High St. at 2 p.m. Oct. 26 and put on a special presentation about Morrison’s works.
The Happy Bookers club will discuss Morrison’s works on Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. at Redbud Library at 14785 Burns Valley Rd. in Clearlake.
At the Middletown Library Book Club, 21256 Washington St., there will be a discussion of Morrison’s book “Beloved” on Nov. 13 at 3:30 at Middletown Library.
Chloe Anthony Wofford, better known now as Toni Morrison, was born in 1931 in Ohio. She and Harold Morrison married in 1958 and were divorced in 1964.
Morrison drew her inspiration from black life in America, especially the lives of black women.
Her novels often explore the same themes – a sense of loss, roots, community and identity, ancestors, extreme situations, freedom and “bad men,” responsibility, good and evil, and loss of innocence.
As a child she gained an appreciation for heritage, language and music from her parents and it makes itself heard in her poetic prose.
She graduated from Howard University and attended graduate school at Cornell University before working as an editor at Random House.
In 1970 her first novel, “The Bluest Eye” was published. All told, she produced 11 novels, nine non-fiction works, five children’s books, two plays and a libretto in a writing career that spanned nearly 40 years. She also worked in publishing and taught at more than half a dozen colleges and universities.
“Beloved,” published in 1987, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988.
Morrison’s many awards and honors include the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Lake County Library is on the Internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary .
Jan Cook is a library technician for the Lake County Library.
All events are free and open to the public.
Each library will present a special display about Toni Morrison and her works. The public is invited to learn more about this powerful author.
The library is offering copies of Morrison’s book, “The Source of Self-Regard,” while supplies last.
Lakeport Library’s Evening Book Club will meet in the library at 1425 N. High St. at 2 p.m. Oct. 26 and put on a special presentation about Morrison’s works.
The Happy Bookers club will discuss Morrison’s works on Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. at Redbud Library at 14785 Burns Valley Rd. in Clearlake.
At the Middletown Library Book Club, 21256 Washington St., there will be a discussion of Morrison’s book “Beloved” on Nov. 13 at 3:30 at Middletown Library.
Chloe Anthony Wofford, better known now as Toni Morrison, was born in 1931 in Ohio. She and Harold Morrison married in 1958 and were divorced in 1964.
Morrison drew her inspiration from black life in America, especially the lives of black women.
Her novels often explore the same themes – a sense of loss, roots, community and identity, ancestors, extreme situations, freedom and “bad men,” responsibility, good and evil, and loss of innocence.
As a child she gained an appreciation for heritage, language and music from her parents and it makes itself heard in her poetic prose.
She graduated from Howard University and attended graduate school at Cornell University before working as an editor at Random House.
In 1970 her first novel, “The Bluest Eye” was published. All told, she produced 11 novels, nine non-fiction works, five children’s books, two plays and a libretto in a writing career that spanned nearly 40 years. She also worked in publishing and taught at more than half a dozen colleges and universities.
“Beloved,” published in 1987, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988.
Morrison’s many awards and honors include the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Lake County Library is on the Internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary .
Jan Cook is a library technician for the Lake County Library.
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I'd guess that at least every other person reading this column did at one time, as a child, carry home some animal that he or she wouldn't be able to keep.
Here's Connie Wanek, who lives in New Mexico, remembering her son in just such a moment.
Connie's most recent book is a collection of her "Mrs. God" poems called Consider the Lilies, published by Will o' the Wisp Books.
Rain Changing to Snow
He came home from middle school
with a wet kitten tucked inside
his black leather jacket.
He'd found it shivering in the tall grass
flattened by rain.
It could only belong to him
for fifteen minutes
and it understood that, I think.
Though just a few weeks old,
already it expected disappointment.
Yet it began to purr,
this scrap of cloud-gray fur,
as he drew it forth to show me.
Castaway (its name
he said), so lonely and hungry
after the shipwreck of
another day at school.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2018 by Connie Wanek, "Rain Changing to Snow," (2018). Poem reprinted by permission of Connie Wanek. Introduction copyright @2019 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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