<div dir="ltr"><div> Happy Poetry Month! We have several extra copies of <a href="https://www.margarethasse.com/shelter.html" target="_blank"><i>Shelter</i> by poet Margaret Hasse and artist Sharon DeMark</a>. I will send one to the first 24 libraries that say they are interested. <br></div><div> While quarantined during covid, Hasse collaborated with her neighbor and colleague DeMark to create this book. One of them would send over a piece of work that would inspire the other's art. This collaboration explores the different meanings and types of shelter.<br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_lgfkujjj1" alt="image.png" width="278" height="327"><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's an example:</div><div>
<div><div style="width:412px;height:87px"><div style="padding:0px 2.16px"><p><span style="line-height:21px">"Hug" </span><span style="line-height:21px">from</span><span style="line-height:21px"> Shelter </span><span style="line-height:21px"> Margaret Hasse, poet, and Sharon DeMark, artist</span></p></div></div></div>
<img src="cid:ii_lgfktnjd0" alt="image.png" width="403" height="541"><br><br><p></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:18.7333px">To fit together</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">is one branch</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">in the language </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">roots of “arm.”</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">How regrettable</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">that arms name </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">hardware of war.</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">The only right </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">to bear arms safely</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">is the caring capacity </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">of our amazing </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">appendages that</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">comfort and caress,</span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">have and hold, </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">cradle and rock, </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">clasping each other </span></p><p style="margin-left:160px"><span style="line-height:16px">close.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:16px"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:0px;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px"><span style="line-height:16px"><br></span></p>
</div><div><div><div><br><span>-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thomas Trahey</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Mason County District Library</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Head of Circulation</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">231-843-8465</span></div></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"></span></font><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>