Children's Room at the Ukiah Library temporarily closed

Ukiah Library Children’s Room Closed Until Further Notice

(Ukiah, Mendocino County, California) – We have confirmed today that there is mold in the Children’s Room in the Ukiah Library. We have closed this room as a precaution. We are expecting to hear from our Contractors early next week as far as a time line for the mold mitigation process.

In the meantime we will be moving some of the children’s books to the main area of the library but all programs are suspended for now.

It is our goal to have the Children’s Room reopened as soon as possible and to resume our wonderful children’s programs.

For updates please check our website: mendolibrary.org or call the Ukiah Branch at 707-463-4490.

We appreciate your patronage and look forward to seeing you soon!

First Saturday Booksale at the Ukiah Library

Friends of the Ukiah Library

First Saturday Booksale

10 to 3:30

a variety of great books at resonable prices!

105 N Main St

Ukiah CA 95482

Community Reading of Favorite Poems

A Community Reading of Favorite Poems

Our community’s favorite poems—Blake, Rilke, Mary Oliver, Lewis Carroll, Marge Piercy—
Come to a special reading of these and more, gathered from submissions by the public in September.

Friday, October 15, 2010
7:00 pm
Grace Hudson Museum Community Room
431 South Main Street, Ukiah
$3/person or $5/family suggested donation

For more information:
Theresa Whitehill, Ukiah Poet Laureate, 707 462-4557, ukiah.laurate@mcn.org
www.coloredhorse.com/poetry

Mendocino Wildfire Information Update

This is not fog.

Just wanted to alert people to a few good fire related websites:

Here is a link to the best wildfire location maps that I've found. Here is another. Peter Armstrong's pictures are here.

Mendocino County suggests regularly checking their Office of Emergency Services site to get updates on air quality and evacuation information.

Come to the libraries get some materials to watch and read and stay out of the unhealthy air.

the ukiaHaiku Festival Sunday, April 29th

Enjoy an afternoon devoted to the Haiku form of poetry. Garry Gay is the keynote speaker.
Winning authors will read their work.

Sunday, April 29th, 2007 2 - 4 p.m.

At the Ukiah Conference Center
200 School Street, Ukiah

www.ukiaHaiku.org

April 12 -- Al Young, California Poet Laureate visits Mendocino County

National Poetry Month Poem of the Day for April 12, 2007

Celebrating the visits to Willits and Ukiah of California Poet Laureate Al Young

WILLITS LIBRARY 10 AM & UKIAH CITY HALL 7 PM with Ukiah Poets Laureate past & present

For Poets

Al Young

Stay beautiful

But don’t stay down underground too long

Don’t turn into a mole

or a worm

or a root

or a stone

Come on out into the sunlight

Breathe in trees

Knock out mountains

Commune with snakes

& be the very hero of birds

Don’t forget to poke your head up

& blink

Think

Walk all around

Swim upstream

Don’t forget to fly

Al Young

Notes on the Future of Love

Meanwhile over in yet another time zone,

somewhere between Iraq and another place

hard hit, the most toxic of gumbos thickens.

To the poisoned Kool-Aid taste of homemade sin,

answers-in-progress stack but don’t add up.

With every putrid breath you take, hope dissolves

into streaming reruns of hell and high water.

In Chinese, in Czech, in Arabic or Albanian,

in Japanese or German, does the Sermon on the Mount

still count? And does it say still: Thou shall not kill?

In your cozy time zone, sandwiched now somehow

between Iraq and another place hard hit,

where do you come down on the future of love?

Poetry for April 6

Art from the Sedona AZ Library

Eliza's choice

Eating Poetry
Mark Strand

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.

The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.

Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.

She does not understand,
when I get on my knees and lick her hand.
She screams.

I am a new man.
I snarl at her and bark.
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.

Donna's choice

Willits Library National Poetry Month Poem of the Day for April 6, 2007

Naomi Shihab Nye

STAYING CLOSE

On your tree surprised lemons

wore small caps of snow.

The bowl of steaming lentils

opened its wide mouth as we sat and sat,

stitching the seam of talk,

till the man with the rug from Baghdad arrived

rolling out its long length inside your door.

It was orange. It looked happy.

He had just come overland with a bundle of rugs.

When you kissed him good-bye on both cheeks

I wanted to kiss him too,

not for our offhand greeting,

or his deep eyes like furry animals

curled into lairs for the winter,

but for each doorway in Baghdad

with a rug in front of it

and humans moving in and out.

California Poet Laureate to visit Ukiah & Willits Libraries

Al Young, California's Poet Laureate
will appear Thursday, April 12th

Willits Library 10 to 11:30 a.m.
for a reading and a Q & A session.
300 Commercial St. 459-5908

Ukiah Council Chambers at 7:00 p.m.
Reading/Performance with Al Young,
bassist Don Robbins &
present & past Ukiah Poet Laureates,
David Smith-Ferri,
Linda Noel & Armand Brint.
300 Seminary Rd. Off of S. State St.