Central Kansas Library System

A Mystery Stone found by the Shenandoah River has designs that resonate with ancient Mississippian art. Could these markings be intentional and inspired by a culture that existed almost a thousand years ago? A variety of archetypal images appear to be present on the stone, such as Birdman, twinned humans and netherworld creatures. When designs and mandalas from Southeastern ceremonial art are overlain atop our dinted stone, we find that beauty and...

2020 was a year that will go down in infamy. There was a pandemic, people died, rioting in the streets, so many things that I can't even remember. But while, I was sitting in my tiny apartment for months on end, I wrote. And, wrote. And, wrote some more. And, kept writing. Poetry and short stories. Some made it into journals and anthologies. Some were read aloud and acted out by me and my friends. 2020 may have been a year that will go down in infamy,...

Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence. Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, sensuous as it is terrifying. "Thicket" introduces us to stalking being akin to hunting; the similar threat of terror and-too...

These poems, which examine the spiritual as well as the psychological effects of being a Christian, offer an amalgam of diverse yet related influences: John Donne's "Holy Sonnets"; Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H.; and Emily Dickinson's "Behind me-dips Eternity-." Another significant source may also be apparent: the sonnet sequences of such Renaissance poets as Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare. However, although...

A colorful board book full of rhyming riddles that celebrates every child's favorite day of the year--birthdays! Another addition to the Little Series of board books.

"The Song Maker" is a brand new collection of poetry by American lyric poet Sara Teasdale (1884—1933). Featuring her famous "Love Songs" collection alongside "Rivers to the Sea". Teasdale produced numerous volumes of poetry in her career, most of which were both well received critically and economically successful. She was awarded the Pulitzer Price for her poetry collection "Love Songs" in 1917, which was the first of its kind. A fantastic collection...

A lyrical celebration of the fascinating ways birds move through the air. This collection of captivating poems celebrates the distinctive movements of twelve birds in flight and the special words associated with those movements, from geese that skein and puffins that wheel, to crows that mob and starlings that murmurate. The evocative language conveys the beauty of these animals and describes how each one makes its own unmistakable way in the world....

“Book of Days” is a long poem recounting a journey along the popular pilgrimage route, or 'Camino' to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Animated by song and conversation, the poem is filled with the stories of those encountered along the way, combining a multi-voiced soundscape with vivid verbal sketches of landscape and architecture. The possibilities and contradictions of a twenty-first-century pilgrimage are revealed: inevitably informed...

Fatima's Touch is unique. Biographies of Muhammad are available, but there is very little in English on Fatima-the Prophet's youngest daughter-her life and family. The word "Islam" takes up a great deal of space in world events today, so it would follow that there are many who are curious about the founder of Islam and his famous daughter, Fatima al-Zahra. How was she, raised? Why was she, known as the "Mother of Her Father?" How were, she and her...

Extrait : "C'était un très vieux cimetière, abandonné. Il n'y avait plus que quelques pierres survivant, comme si les tombes mouraient également. Or les tombes qui meurent ainsi, à leur tour, c'est de la tristesse encore plus triste. C'est comme des larmes délayées dans de la pluie."