MORE FAMOUS POETS COMING TO WAYLAND! On Sunday, April 21, at 3 p.m. prizing-winning poets Jill McDonough and David Rivard will read poetry in the Raytheon Room. Pushcart Prize winner McDonough is also the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress. She taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work appears in The Nation, The New Republic, Slate, and Best American Poetry 2011. She is one of this year’s Massachusetts Poetry Festival headliners. David Rivard is the author of five published books of poetry and his poetry has appeared in many literary magazines. In 2006 he was awarded the Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, in recognition of both his writing and teaching. Among his other awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Civitella Ranieri, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is a former poetry editor at the Harvard Review. Rivard is the director of the University of New Hampshire MFA Program in Writing.
LIBRARY BOOK & BAKE SALE – April 27 & 28 The Friends of the Wayland Public Library will sponsor their Spring Book and Bake Sale on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, April 28, from 12-4 p.m. There will also be a preview for members of the Friends on Friday, April 26, from 6-8:30 p.m. Memberships will be available at the sale starting at 5:30 p.m. Sale items include delicious baked goods and thousands of quality books in good condition for children and adults. All proceeds go to support Wayland Library programs and services. The sale will be held in the Large Hearing Room in the Wayland Town Building, 41 Cochituate Road. Donations of books will be accepted during set-up in the Large Hearing Room on Wednesday, April 24, and Thursday, April 25. Donations of baked goods will be accepted from Friday until the end of the sale on Sunday. Internet book scanning devices are not permitted in the sale area. For more information, contact Anne Heller at 508-358-4515 or Pam Mauer at 508-358-5432.
BAKERS NEEDED! The Friends of the Library are looking for bakers to contribute confections to the spring book sale. Baked goods attract sweet lovers of all ages to the sale and add substantially to the bottom line. This spring’s sale will be held on April 26-28. If you’re interested, please contact Anne Heller at (508) 358-4515 or Pam Mauer (508) 358-5432
BOX CREATIONS: A CRAFT IN CELEBRATION OF EARTH DAY Kids, what can you make from a box and other recyclable materials? A robot? A train? A castle? Let your imagination run wild. You can bring your own box or use one of ours. For ages 4 and up. Wednesday, April 24, at 3 p.m. Raytheon Room.
KIDS’ POETRY WORKSHOP WITH JANET WONG 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.
So You Haven’t Sold a Home Lately? On Tuesday, April 23, from 7-9 p.m. Joanne Berry of Hammond Real Estate and Amy Reich Weil will present a program 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. Berry is a Senior Associate at Hammond Residential Real Estate and Weil is a partner at Kertzman & Weil and an Adjunct Professor at Babson College. A question and answer period will follow, and refreshments will be provided.
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT) FOR ADULTS On Monday, April 29, from 7-9 p.m., Daniel Beck, LICSW in private practice (son of Aaron Beck M.D., the “father of Cognitive Therapy”), will discuss CBT for adults with emotional health disabilities, a tested and effective therapy program for many mental health disorders. CBT helps individuals learn specific thinking skills to improve their emotional health, such as identifying distorted thinking patterns and modifying limiting beliefs. The goal of CBT is to gain a greater measure of control over the emotional aspects of their lives.
ANCHOR POEM Discussions The last discussion of our Anchor Poems will be on Tuesday, April 30, from 7-8 p.m. in the library’s Raytheon Room with Angie Corbet and Judy Hoyer. We’ll talk about any of the Anchors Poems of interest and just about poetry in general.
SHAKESPEARE WITH HELEN WHALL This year our Shakespeare program will focus on the poetry of Shakespeare: his sonnets and the evolution of his dramatic verse. Dates will be May 14 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Raytheon Room. On May 14 we will discuss Shakespeare in relationship to the explosion of English sonnets in his day and look at the depth of his poetic contribution to the tradition of 14-line poems. On May 21 we will discuss excerpt passages from plays early, mid-period, and late to trace how Shakespeare never stopped reinventing the iambic pentameter line or ever stopped exploring how poetic techniques serve drama and drama serves poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON WORKSHOP It’s not too late to join our Emily Dickinson workshops with poet Tom Daley. The workshops continue on Thursdays April 25, May 9, and May 23. Handouts of a different group of important poems by Dickinson will be distributed each week and will examine her experimental use of rhyme and meter, her literary influences, and her engagement with human relations, spirituality, and nature. Class participation, including reading of Dickinson poems out loud and learning to analyze a Dickinson poem, will be encouraged.
FAVORITE POEM READING Some of the people who submitted poems to our Favorite Poem Project, will read those poems at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, in the library’s Raytheon Room. Come hear some of your neighbors read their favorite poems aloud.
Field Trip to Forest Hills Cemetery As part of Wayland Reads Poetry, on Saturday, May 4, at 9 a.m. we will gather in the library parking lot to carpool to a 10 a.m. tour of Forest Hills Cemetery. We will take a guided walking tour of one of the finest examples of the garden cemetery in the U.S., founded in 1848 and set among the jewels of Boston’s Emerald Necklace. Discover the picturesque final resting place of poets e.e. cummings and Anne Sexton, as well as many other prominent Bostonians.
MAY BOOKGROUPS Our evening group will meet on Monday, May 6, at 7 p.m. to discuss The Good Wife by Stewart O’Nan. Our noontime group will meet on Friday, May 10, at noon to discuss Spartina by John Casey. Both groups meet in the Raytheon Room and new members are always welcome.
WRAP BRACELET WORKSHOP WITH NORMA RADOFF Norma has taught many jewelry classes at the library, but never a wrap bracelet workshop! On Saturday, May 11, at 2 p.m., learn how to use leather and beads to make beautiful, fashion forward single wrap bracelets. Don’t know what a wrap bracelet is? You can go to sites like www.chanluu.com for examples. The technique is simple enough that you may want to go home and make bracelets as gifts for your friends and family. All supplies will be provided. The class is limited to 8 students. Please sign up by calling the library at 508-358-2311 or online at waylandlibrary.org through our Event Calendar.
