WAYLAND FAVORITE POEM PROJECT Have you sent us your favorite poem yet? Reminder: during Wayland Reads, we are participating in Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project.” Please submit the title and author of your favorite poem to us by emailing it to waylandreadspoetry@waylandlibrary.org or submit it online via website-waylandlibrary.org. The poems can be anything from a nursery rhyme that your mother sang to you to Ogden Nash to a sonnet by Shakespeare to, as long as it means something to you. We’re planning a reading of some of these Favorite Poems at the end of April.
WAYLAND READS POETRY! This year WAYLAND READS will focus on poetry. We will be reading, writing, studying, and listening to poetry. We’ve also invited distinguished poet Robert Pinsky to kick-off our series with a poetry reading at the Wayland Middle School on the afternoon of Sunday, March 24, at 4 p.m. Pinsky, a professor at BU, was the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, serving three consecutive terms. His tenure was marked by ambitious efforts to prove the power of poetry as a meaningful and integral part of American life. He appears frequently on television and radio. We have invited many other well-known New England poets to read their poetry in Wayland during April, including 2012 National Book Award winner David Ferry, Pushcart Prize winners Jill McDonough and David Rivard, and Emerson Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Gail Mazur. If you harbor the notion that poetry is irrelevant or difficult, you need to come hear the edgy, hip, and exciting work that these modern poets produce. Please come to the library and pick up a “Wayland Reads” pin, as well as a booklet of the “Anchor Poems” that we will be discussing this year.
POETRY WORKSHOP FOR KIDS Janet Wong, author of more than two dozen books for children and teens will lead a poetry workshop for children ages 7 and up on April 24 at 7 p.m. Ms Wong (who has a J.D. from Yale) left the law to write for children because she has a passion for children’s literature. She has been honored with the Claremont Stone Center Recognition of Merit and the IRA Celebrate Literacy Award, speaks frequently in schools, and has performed at the White House. For more information about this program, call Children’s librarian Pam McCuen at 508-358-2308.
FRANK SMITH RETURNS Attention Classics scholars! Mr. Smith will start a series of programs entitled “Classical Archaeology: Uncovering the Greco-Roman World” on Tuesday, March 5, 1-3 p.m. The class will meet five Tuesday afternoons: March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2. Class notes and site diagrams will be made available. Mr. Smith suggests that, if possible, participants read “The King Must Die” (Mary Renault) and “Pompeii” (Robert Harris) before the first class meeting.
RAISING GLOBAL IQ The program on Raising Global IQ with Wayland resident Carl Hobert, originally scheduled for Sunday, February 24, has been rescheduled to Sunday, March 17, at 3 p.m. Hobert will talk about his new book, Raising Global IQ: Preparing our Students for a Shrinking Planet. He is a Clinical Instructor at the BU School of Education. This program is sponsored by the Gossels Fund for Human Dignity.
Information Session on the Home Selling Process. So you haven’t sold a home lately? Need a review of what is required? Joanne Berry, Senior Associate at Hammond Residential Real Estate, and real estate attorney Amy Reich Weil, Partner at Kertzman and Weil and Adjunct Professor at Babson College, will present a program on Tuesday, March 19, 7-9 p.m. on the process and procedures involved with the sale of single family homes and condominiums, from pre-listing activities to transaction management and closing preparation. Topics will include: Title 5 Certification, Lead Paint Law, environmental issues, inspections, financing, and recent changes in the law. A question and answer period will follow. Location: Raytheon Room
TRANSITION PLANNING FOR SPECIAL NEEDS. This program, which was canceled on January 28 due to inclement weather, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 6, at 7 p.m. Terri McLaughlin, Coordinator of Transition Projects at the Federation for Children with Special Needs, will discuss transition planning. Transition plans create a framework to assist students to become effective self-advocates and explore work and post-secondary options. Being prepared to enter the next phase of learning support is critical for post-secondary success.
PARENT CHILD BOOKGROUP. Our Parent-Child Book Group will meet on Monday, March 18, at 7 p.m. It’s a book group for children in 4th or 5th grades, with a parent. Each month we will discuss a different book. After discussion, the group will decide together what next month’s book will be. For more information, call Chidren’s Librarian Pam McCuen at 508-358-2308.
NORWEGIAN WOOD/LOG CONSTRUCTION. On Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. David Hirzel will give a program on the history of Norwegian log construction, which he investigated as a Fulbright student at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. He extensively studied Norwegian Farm Buildings and Stave Churches dating from 1050 to the 1800s. Using photographs, plans, details and diagrams, he will explain these most beautiful and interesting architectural structures, including siting and construction perspectives. David studied architecture at Washington State University and has worked at Sasaki Associates for over 40 years.
CONROY OFFICE HOURS. Representative Tom Conroy will hold office hours in the library’s Raytheon Room on Friday, March 15, from 2-2:30 p.m.
LEGO CLUB. Each month kids can come to the library and use their imaginations to make fabulous LEGO creations! This month’s theme is knights and castles. For ages 6 and up. Wednesday, March 6, at 3 p.m. in the Raytheon Room
