In the Stacks

Another April, another NaPoMo, or National Poetry Month. In this episode, Brittney, Drew, and Alissa read and discuss some of their favorite poems of the year and encourage listeners to indulge in poetry not just in April, but all year long.

Poems discussed in this episode include:

“A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg

“Three Body Problem” by Hannah Larrabee

“Kanye West is Not Picasso” by Leonard Cohen

“Golden Record” by Paige Lewis

“Fleas” by Ogden Nash

“Watching the Nature Channel” by Leonard Cohen

“[an ancient pond!]” by Matsuo Basho

“My Mind is Made of Cheese” by Lilly S.

“Untitled” by S.

“On Rare Occasions” by Leonard Cohen

“Little Crazy Love Song” by Mary Oliver

“What I Do” by Leonard Cohen

“Sad Olympics” by Kate Baer

“Billings, MT” by Brittney Uecker

More information about the Three Body Problem can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/three-body-problem#:~:text=The%20three%2Dbody%20problem%20describes,the%20influence%20of%20the%20Sun. 

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As part of last year's Summer Reading Program, the Library welcomed performance artist Dave Caserio and MSUB Professor Emeritus Dr. William Kamowski for their presentation "The Foundations of English From Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare". These two enthusiastically guided us through the history of the English language and gave readings in original Old and Middle English pronunciations. Dave and Bill were kind enough to sit down with Alissa for a conversation that dives a little deeper into this topic. 

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Do you have a New Year's resolution for this year? It's February now, so if you have one and you haven't given up on it yet,  you're doing better than most of society, so kudos to you. Because we are librarians by day and book nerds by night, our New Year's resolutions obviously take the form of reading resolutions. In this episode of In the Stacks, the staff of the Lewistown Public Library share their book-related goals for 2023. We hope that by setting our literature intentions that we can inspire you to go after a reading goal of your own in the new year. 

Intro and Outro music by Cosmik Jru

Featured track "Vegan Breakfast" by Couple II 

The world is rife with end-of-the-year lists, but THIS is the one to listen to! In this episode, the Lewistown Library staff brings you our favorite books of 2022. Ranging from cookbooks to music, apocalyptic to feel-good, this discussion will give you plenty of ideas for reads to start your new year.

The Library hosted Joan Bird over the summer for her very popular program, "UFOs and Extraterrestrials in Montana." Join Joan and Alissa for this conversation about extraterrestrials, science fiction, and leaning into the unknown. 

Many thanks to Humanities Montana for sponsoring this program.

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Mary Jane Bradbury is an amazing amalgam of things — she is an actress, speaker, and educator who melds history and performance in her unique role as an historical interpreter. Mary Jane fully embodies the characters in her performances through costume, voice, and storytelling to bring these historical women to life for her audiences. Mary Jane joined up for two events at the Library — a workshop called "The Art of Storytelling" and her presentation titled "Kid Gloves and Brass Knuckles: The Life of Nancy Cooper Russell".

Much thanks to Humanities Montana for sponsoring this and the other events for our Thursday Night Speakers series as part of our Summer Reading Program. For information on these and other Library happenings, visit our website and follow us on social media.

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Happy National Poetry Month! In this episode, Alissa and Brittney share and discuss some of their favorite poems and poets. Simple as that. The poems discussed in this episode include:

"Who Let the Hogs Out!" by Aileen Keown Vaux  

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop   

"Female Author" by Sylvia Plath   

"Mossbawn Sunlight" by Seamus Heaney   

"Taking a Break Outside the Trailways Bus from Grandma's" by Devin Kelly   

"Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop   

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin   

"The Red Wheelbarrow" and "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams   

"How to Triumph Like a Girl" by Ada Limón   

"Strawberries" by Edwin Morgan   

"Heirloom" by torrin a. greathouse   

"Catholic Guilt" by Brittney Uecker

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Chris is a Montana writer, Métis storyteller, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. His book, “One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large”, was published by Riverfeet Press in 2018 and was the winner of the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His book “Descended From a Travel-worn Satchel” was published by FootHills Publishing in 2021 and his book “Becoming Little Shell” comes out in 2023 from Milkweed Editions. Chris teaches with the Missoula Writing Collaborative’s Writers in the School program, which brings creative writing education to schools across Montana. Additionally, Chris is an absolute pleasure to talk to.

We are well into the new year and maybe now is really the best time to discuss our resolutions for this 2022, when we’ve had a chance to feel them out and decide whether we want to hang on to them through the rest of the year or abandon them to wishful thinking. In this episode, Alissa and Brittney revisit Their resolutions from last year, let you know how they went, and then lay out their resolutions for 2022, book-related and otherwise. 

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For our last episode of 2021, we bring you the LPL staff's books of the year. Brittney say down with each of the Lewistown Library librarians to discuss the one (or maybe two) best books that they read in 2021 that stood out the most for them. 

The books discussed in this episode include:

"Fresh Water for Flowers" by Valérie Perrin (Nancy)"

"コンビニ人間 (Convenience Store Woman)" by Sayaka Murata (Alissa)

"Nightbitch" by Rebecca Yoder (Brittney)

"The Blue House" by Phoebe Wahl (Brittney)

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