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Library Board reinstates book display ban
LAFAYETTE, La. — During the monthly Library Board of Control meeting Monday night, the decision to reinstate a ban on certain themed book displays was finalized with a 6-1 vote, effectively closing the book on the matter. The display ban was first reported by KATC in 2022 and two years later was brought back for a short period by current interim Library Director Sarah Monroe during Black History Month but was pulled yet again.
VOICES: How censorship came to Lafayette
The agenda item sounded innocuous enough. Under section VIII, New Business, for the Feb. 21 meeting was item C. Collection Development Policy. Board will be asked to discuss and take action on Lafayette Public Library Collection Development Policy, Section X.
Letters: Honest accounts of library's books should convince taxpayers to vote yes
All eight members of the Lafayette Parish Library Board of Control have acknowledged publicly that October’s upcoming millage is not only necessary, but urgently needed. Without it, we will see drastic cuts to services, up to and including the closing of libraries. Why then, has Board of Control member Robert Judge decided that now is the time to completely rewrite the library’s mission statement? Those who oppose the library will soon be campaigning against this millage.
What My Mother Taught Me
by Lynette Mejía Published in Feb. 2021 (Issue 64) | 167 words © 2021 by Lynette Mejía. Herb lore and craft, the art of speaking to trees. That the best paths through a garden never run straight. To cherish the wild places, and enter them with a bowed head and an open heart. Flight, and flying, the test of spreading wings made of gold and silver, then trusting them to hold my weight. Using the heart for navigation. Incantations and enchantment, and the knowledge of spells not found in any book.
Letters: Lafayette deserves better than current library board leadership
Lafayette Parish people deserve a library that is free and open to all. They deserve books and programming chosen by professional librarians with the knowledge, skills and years of experience necessary to make such important decisions. They deserve a new branch to serve the northeast side of our parish, where the community has been waiting patiently for years for a library of its own, though the only things people have seen so far are empty political promises.
What My Mother Taught Me
by Lynette Mejía Published in Feb. 2021 (Issue 64) | 167 words © 2021 by Lynette Mejía. Herb lore and craft, the art of speaking to trees. That the best paths through a garden never run straight. To cherish the wild places, and enter them with a bowed head and an open heart. Flight, and flying, the test of spreading wings made of gold and silver, then trusting them to hold my weight. Using the heart for navigation. Incantations and enchantment, and the knowledge of spells not found in any book.
Light years
T-minus 10 years We met in the library, of all places. She was sitting at a study desk with only a notebook, staring out the window. As usual, I wasn’t looking where I was going and I tripped, dropping my stack of books all over her. One of them hit her on the head as it fell and she screamed at the sudden pain, jumping up and yelling at me. I just stood there, rendered speechless by her beautiful, righteous indignation. That was the beginning.
Lynette Mejía - Fantasy Magazine
Lynette Mejía writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror prose and poetry from the middle of a deep, dark forest in the wilds of southern Louisiana. Her work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and Strange Horizons, among others, as well as the recent anthologies Not One of Us and American Gothic: Short Stories. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling Award and the Million Writers Award. You can find her online at www.lynettemejia.com.
Poetry Archives - Fantasy Magazine
Poetry Like a Box of Chocolates by Dani Atkinson You may pick one, says the goblin chocolatier. / The box is a vibrant garden of sweets neatly arranged. / A sugar rose so real it seems grown, stolen from some witch bramble of candy thorns and gum drop hips. A truffle banded white and blue that smells of fresh cut grass and rain. Poetry What My Mother Taught Me by Lynette Mejía Herb lore and craft, the art / of speaking to trees. That the best / paths through a garden never run / straight.
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