April at SPCL

We are celebrating with "A Poem in Your Pocket!" In addition to our print collection, we also have QR codes for our Sora collection. Stop by the library and pick up a "Poem in Your Pocket" zine where you can jot down your favorite verses or make your own! See our expansive poetry collection and try out a new style of poem like a concrete poem or a gazhal!

Featured titles:

• King Me by Roger Reeves
• Black Girl You are Atlas by Renee Watson
• Aniana Del Mar Se Avienta by Jasmine Mendez
• Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry by Julian Peters

Come check out our Arab American collection for and by authors of Arab descent. We have graphic novels, graphic nonfiction, fiction, and nonfiction. Learn something new or build on the knowledge you have already!

Featured titles:

• Huda F are You? by Huda Fahmy
• I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib
• We Too Sing America by Deepa Dyer
• From Here: A Memoir by Luma Mufleh
• Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq

While New York City is not in the direct path of the total eclipse of the sun (cue: Total Eclipse of the Heart), we will be on track for an 89% solar eclipse coverage! To that end, join us at lunch on April 8 to make homemade solar eclipse viewers which we can take to the roof at 2pm to view the eclipse through our viewers. REMEMBER, you can do real damage to your eyes by looking directly at the sun if you don't have genuine solar eclipse glasses. Our method will be much safer so you can keep viewing solar eclipses going forward! They're also giving out free eclipse classes at the following locations:

• Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch
• Long Island Welcome Center: 5100 Long Island Expressway, eastbound Moynihan Train Hall: MTA Long Island Rail Road Ticket Windows, 421 8th Ave., New York
• New York Public Library - Spuyten Duyvil branch and at your local branches - including Seward Park Branch

• Queens Public Library - Hunter's Point Branch
  

Where to Stream the Event!

• Observatory Livestreams

Featured titles:

• Starstruck : A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark by Serafina El-Badry Nance
  
• Arca by Van Jensen
• Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  

Because we'll be on spring break for Earth day, we'll just celebrate climate awareness all month. We have a large collection of nonfiction in the 300s section and a new section of Cli Fi, the fancy abbreviation of Climate Fiction! Cli Fi is essentially science fiction with a focus on climate change. We also have a small collection of graphic novels in this collection.

Featured titles:

• All the Feelings Under the Sun : How to Deal with Climate Change by Leslie Davenport
  
• Saving Earth : Climate Change and the Fight for our Future by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
  
• The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
  

Yes, it's true. I will be taking a vacation from April 11-19 which means I won't see you again until May! But never fear, some of you have met Patty McHugh, who will be filling in for me while I am away. Patty just retired in February from Manhattan Day and Night School, but as you can see, you can't keep a good librarian out of a library! Patty will be here on Thursdays and Fridays from 9am-12pm, so that we can open the library at 9am on those days, and she'll be here in earnest the entire time I'm out on vacation, so you won't even notice that I'm gone. Stop in and say hello! She has even more energy than me, and she's delighted to be back in a library!