poetry

Baseball’s back!

The Boston Red Sox start another season of games at Fenway Park tomorrow, and along with with all the pomp and circumstance that usually comes with the home opener, the players will receive their 2007 World Series rings.

The Library has a range of materials on baseball, which can be found by doing a keyword search for baseball in the catalog and limiting your results to Wheelock. Here’s a selection to get you started:

Looking for ways to use baseball in the elementary classroom? Try the baseball volume of Theme series: integrated activities for whole language and thematic teaching.
The faith of fifty million: baseball, religion, and American culture explores the national pastime as a kind of civil religion (to which those who have worshiped at the shrine known as Fenway Park can attest).
A whole new ball game: the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League gives the history of the teams made famous by the movie “A League of Their Own.”
April is National Poetry Month, and there is plenty of poetry about the national pastime. One such title in Wheelock’s collection is At the crack of the bat: baseball poems.

Here’s hoping for a long, successful season for your favorite team!

National Poetry Month is here

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
~ T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland

While we may not agree completely that April is the cruellest month, we do agree that it can be a rough one — the end of the academic year is finally in sight but there’s that last stretch of finals to get through, and the weather is starting to improve but it’s still too soon to pack away your sweaters for fear of a snowstorm.

One way to beat back the cruelty of April is by celebrating National Poetry Month. While we think you should live every month like it’s National Poetry Month, we’re happy to get you started with some suggestions for this year’s observance.

The seventh annual Boston National Poetry Month Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15, at the main branch of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square. More than 50 poets are slated to share their work, and an open mike session Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. gives everyone the chance to give voice to their verse. Click here for a full schedule and additional information.
The American Academy of Poets, the sponsors of National Poetry Month, provides a wealth of information at www.poets.org. You can learn all about National Poetry Month, sign up to receive a Poem-a-Day email each day in April, find a poem for (almost) any occasion, and more.
There’s lots of poetry here at the Wheelock College Library. Search the catalog for your favorite authors and collections, or browse the shelves in the 811 call number range to find something new. And don’t forget that children’s poetry isn’t just for children! Check floor 2M for a variety of options.

Poetry can be found everywhere, and we encourage you to seek it out in all its forms

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