Book Talk by the Sea

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which the National Alliance on Mental Illness describes as an opportunity to "fight stigma, provide...

As spring progresses (slowly here in Maine), yellow bursts of forsythia are one of the earliest colorful patches in the post-winter...

Friday April 29th is this year's Poem in Your Pocket Day! The name may speak for itself, but let poetry spark your creativity. No...

National Poetry Month continues on the blog today with a poem that reminds one how poetry can be simultaneously timeless and timely. In...

Each year, there is a seven day overlap between National Library Week and National Poetry Month that feels particularly apt, as we...

Come April, the Camden Public Library is a particularly wonderful place to be, when the crocuses start popping up in the Brick Garden and...

Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail has published numerous volumes of work in both Arabic and English. Much of her work grapples with war...

Every season brings its upheaval, but the end of winter has certainly been no light affair while war and pandemic rage at once. With all...

March brings Women's History Month around once again. If these annual months of recognition happen over and over again, how can we make...

Happy International Women's Day! Every year, the Women's Prize Trust, based in the UK, awards the Women's Prize for Fiction to an...

So many of us come to the library because we love words. The stories they create or the truths they tell. The rhythms and joys of...

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Black History Month, as a recognized annual celebration, ends on February 28th, but thankfully none...

Amanda Gorman has captivated a large audience since stepping up to the mike with a powerful poem, "The Hill We Climb," at last January's...

Last week, Book Talk by the Sea opened the celebrated start of Black History Month with a poem by Clint Smith, and while there is more...

The beginning of February marks the beginning of Black History Month—not a sole time to focus on the history and lives of Black Americans...

One of the great joys of being a cataloger in a library is getting to handle and peruse every new or donated book that enters our...

January tends to be a month of goals and plans. Resolutions, committed dreams for how the new year will go. Often this focus extends to...

We've delved into 2022, taking on these first two weeks with, I think, a shared hope for a better year for everyone, for the world. The...

The Camden Conference returns this coming February with the theme "Europe Challenged: At Home and Abroad." As the organizers state: The...

Here's to starting 2022 with a bit of unharnessed joy! The Camden Public Library serves a fairly small community in our coastal town and...