interesting library articles #863
Looking for something good to read? Top 10 Biographies of 2012 (Malcolm X and Catherine the Great are in my queue) How a library saved nostalgia after a tornado. Why Jon Klassen can do no wrong; Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Lit . Natasha Trethewey named U.S. Poet Laureat, 2012-2013 . The below poem is by Trethewey--liking her style already: "Pilgrimage" Vicksburg, Mississippi Here, the Mississippi carved its mud-dark path, a graveyard for skeletons of sunken riverboats. Here, the river changed its course, turning away from the city as one turns, forgetting, from the past— the abandoned bluffs, land sloping up above the river's bend—where now the Yazoo fills the Mississippi's empty bed. Here, the dead stand up in stone, white marble, on Confederate Avenue. I stand on ground once hollowed by a web of caves; they must have seemed like cataco...