Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
Celebrating Poetry Month as the Feature of the Month
April is poetry month and the Library is celebrating by featuring local and well known poets and biographies of poets for the Feature of the Month. Some of the poets which will be featured are Wilma McDaniel, a Stroud native, who published many books and whose books are being re-printed through a grant from OSU. Also featured are Chandler native and last years Oklahoma Poet Laureate, Ben Myers. Another Chandler native, Mari Battle, will be featured, God’s Queen, poems and essays.
Well known poetry by Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost and Maya Angelou are featured as well as some children’s and young adult poetry.
Books featuring Lincoln County Poet donated
Books about and featuring California Okie Poet and Storyteller Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel were recently donated to the Library from the Oklahoma State University Library courtesy of the Chlebda & Coghill families in memory of Jim Chlebda & Back40 Publishing. McDaniel, born in 1918 near Stroud, moved to California in 1936 and proceeded to write poems and stories about her years in Oklahoma.
Karen Neurohr, of the OSU Library, donated McDaniel’s biography Chasing Fireflies:the Dust Bowl childhood of a poet written by Jeanie Harris as well as four books of poetry and prose written by McDaniel’s including The Ketchup Bottle: 24 vignettes; Tatted Lace and Other Handmade Poems; Getting Love Down Right; and Walking On An Old Road to the Library.