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They say the land is its own poetry. Explore how you experience poetry - especially Kansas Poetry - with the KS250 Bookshelf and March 25 virtual event featuring Traci Brimhall, Kansas Poet Laureate, library.ks.gov/KS250/February. @America250

“You may write me down in history… But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” — Dr. Maya Angelou For Dr. Angelou, poetry was protest, prayer, and healing. Drop your favorite line of poetry below. 🫶🏾 💬 #WorldPoetryDay

Registration is free and required. Register TODAY, calendar.library.ks.gov/event/16078463 #KS250 #Poetry #ksleg

Poetry can seem inaccessible until it speaks your heart or own thoughts. Enjoy On Being's short animation of Wendell Berry’s, “The Peace of Wild Things.” See you online Wed., March 25, 7 p.m., for a conversation w/KS Poet Laureate. #KSleg youtu.be/-ewB0WL3bNw?si…

“What's wrong with admitting that we don't know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile?” — Carl Sagan

A Rhopalonematid jelly (Crossota millsae) feeding with tentacles extended in all directions filmed at a depth of 1,015 meters (3,330 feet) off southwestern Puerto Rico. 📽: NOAA OOER

Four years ago today, on March 21, 2022, the final visitor to "Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away" paused to read the words of Auschwitz survivor Charlotte Delbo: "You who are passing by I beg you Do something Learn a dance step Something to justify your existence Something that gives you the right To be dressed in your skin in your body hair Learn to walk and laugh Because it would be too senseless After all For so many to have died While you live Doing nothing with your life."

The great Goethe died #onthisday 1832. Among his many contributions across a dizzying array of fields is his work on colour, synthesised in his Theory of Colours (1810). More on the influence of his colour theory in Eugene Thacker's "Black on Black" publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-on… #OTD

First pages of a beautiful art nouveau edition of an essay on gardens by the Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon, who was born #onthisday in 1561. Read the whole thing here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/fra… #otd

Tell us your KS250 Story. We will listen. "The Life which happens today will become history some day." Visit travelks.com/kansas-250/kan… to tell your Kansas story in 500 or fewer words. It will be worth it. #KS250 #ksleg #Kansas @TravelKS @America250

🌻 Founded in the heart of the Midwest, UPK books travel far beyond state lines into classrooms, courtrooms, libraries, and living rooms around the world. Celebrating 80 years! kansaspress.ku.edu/search-grid/?c… #UPKansas #UPK80 #KansasBooks #MidwestBooks

Four Thousand Paws : Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod : a Veterinarian's Story By Lee Morgan DB122275 An intimate account--the first from a trail veterinarian--of the canines who brave the challenges of the Iditarod.

✨📖Where science meets story! Bibliophiles can celebrate #WorldStorytellingDay with these classic sci-fi books: ow.ly/T44q50Yofks, and explore even more booklists, reviews, and #ScienceFiction content by logging in to your #NewsBank resources.

Ready to put your strategies to the test? Whether you're a Grandmaster in the making or just learned how the knight moves, we’ve got a board waiting for you! Join us for Chess Night in the Auditorium from 6-7:30pm, March 25. No Registration Required!

Happy vernal equinox! 🍀 Today marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. After today, the Sun will shine more directly on the Northern Hemisphere than on the Southern Hemisphere until the autumnal equinox.

Last week book club participants brought their book recommendations to share w/ the group & the list is too good to not share with the wider world. Visit our blog to browse the list, find your next read, & request/download a great book today! tinyurl.com/n33hd2rp @LibraryofKS

Still time for a spring break book. Check out the Rhino Keeper by Jillian Forsberg. Don't take our word for it. Take Kaye's and the Prairie Journal on KPR, kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/kpr-pr…. #SpringBreak #Read #KansasNotableBook #RhinoKeeper @kprnews

Celebrating SPRING with a reminder that the projected start of peak bloom for Washington’s cherry blossoms is between March 29 and April 1! 🌸 Did you know the two Library of Congress cherry trees are among just a handful of documented originals from the 1912 gift from Japan? Including this one. 🧵⬇️

HAPPY SPRING! 🌷🌹🌼🌺 #KAKEnews

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