Sad is not the word
A long, rich life is a thing to be celebrated, but I know I am not alone in feeling a sense of loss upon hearing the news that Madeleine L’Engle has died. How lucky we are that she left us so many wonderful books to see us through the rest of our lifetimes.
Librarian, poet, blogger
Much like meeting Steve Kronen, reading this interview poet Jess Mynes (conducted by Kate Greenstreet, one of the poets I’m reading this semester in workshop) has made me feel proud to be working toward becoming a librarian, and, I hope, a poet. In the meantime, I’ll just keep blogging, using what Mynes perfectly describes as the librarian’s instinct to say “‘This is out there. Check this out. Do you know about this? Have a look at this.’” Exactly.
