Join us this summer the three public libraries for our Summer Reading Program: Be Creative.  For event details, go to www.juneau.org/library or download your own June event’s calendar, here.  This podcast provides a brief overview of our summer programs for kids.

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NPR will be turning to best-selling Chinese authors this week to gain some insight into the people’s perspectives on the People’s Republic during its controversial 60 years of rule. Today’s story, the first of the three parts, focuses on Jian Rong’s, Wolf Totem which I happened to pick up not too long ago, fascinated by the subject of Beijing intellectuals electing to go live with the nomadic people of Inner Mongolia and learning from their cultural adoration for the wolf. Listen to the story and join in the conversation, here.

Written by Bruce Coville and performed as a full-cast recording by The Floyd Dryden Eagles Drama Club.  The Juneau Public Libraries as well as the students and staff at Floyd Dryden Middle School are especially greatful to Bruce Coville for this wonderful opportunity.  Enjoy.  This recording is exclusive to JPL Podcasts, you heard it here first!

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To celebrate National Poetry month, today’s podcast features five masters of the short form reading their work.  If you’ve listened to the podcast and still have a craving for more verse, check out The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry, a subsciption database devoted to poetry that contains over 50,000 full-text poems, 1000 commentaries, 500+ poet biographies, audio features and more.  Accessing this resources outside of the library will require using your Juneau Public Library card barcode #. Check out this week’s In The Stacks column which features a review of 4 new library collections.

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“Self-Help for Fellow Refugees” by Li-Young Lee from Behind My Eyes.
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver from At Blackwater Pond.
“Another Spring” by Kenneth Rexroth from The Spoken Arts Treasury Vol. II.
“Gasoline” by Margaret Atwood from The Door.
Introduction by Mark Eleveld, editor of The Spoken Word Revolution.
“Pull down the Mountain” by Marc Smith from The Spoken Word Revolution: slam, hip hop & poetry of a new generation.

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