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“i want to apologize to all the women

i have called pretty

before i’ve called them intelligent or brave.”

PCL Desk Supervisor Stephanie Lopez reads a powerful selection from Rupi Kaur’s book “Milk and Honey.” We have two copies at the PCL - one for check out and one permanently at the UT Poetry Center: http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/record=b9280247~S29

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Preservation Week: Day 2

It’s the American Library Association’s Preservation Week, and all week long, we’re sharing some glimpses into The Huntington’s preservation department.

In the above video clip, paper conservator Jessamy Gloor works on an 1898 map of San Francisco that is scheduled to go on view soon in the permanent exhibition “Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times.” Over the decades, normal wear and tear caused little bits of the printed area of the map to come loose and flip over, obscuring the image and revealing the paper underneath. The clip shows Jessamy working on re-adhering one of those little flipped bits with wheat starch paste.

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“I choose to love      this time      for once

with all my intelligence.”

“Splittings” by Adrienne Rich, read by Justina Moloney, PCL Graduate Research Assistant and UT grad student at the School of Information.

Find more by Adrienne Rich at the PCL!

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Rafael Campo is an acclaimed poet who writes from the intersections of his identity as a gay, Latino physician and teacher. He uses poetry as a way to facilitate healing with his patients. He is visiting campus today, and you can hear him speak at the Avaya Auditorium at 6:00 this evening!

You can find his books at the PCL and the LILAS Benson Library!

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A selection from “Prayers or Oubliettes” By Natalie Diaz

4 The world has tired of tears. We weep owls now. They live longer. They know their way in the dark.

5 Unfasten your cage of teeth and tongue. The taste of a thousand moths is chalk. The mottled wings are the words to pain.

6 We have no mazel tov. We call out for our mothers with empty wine jugs at our heels.

Natalie Diaz is a Mojave poet and works with the last remaining Elder speakers of the Mojave language. This poem is from her acclaimed 2012 book “When My Brother Was an Aztec.” It’s currently on display as part of the UT Poetry Center’s exhibit on Navajo Poets and Poets from Other Southwest Tribes. To learn more and find other books by Native American and Indigenous authors: http://guides.lib.utexas.edu/c.php?g=533619&p=4485434

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“Who finds us here, circling, bewildered, like atoms?

PCL Desk Supervisor Stephanie Lopez found a beautiful edition of the Illuminated Rumi in the PCL’s collection: http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/record=b5081487~S29

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Love Poem                                                                                                     Audre Lorde

Speak earth and bless me with what is richest make sky flow honey out of my hips rigid as mountains spread over a valley carved out by the mouth of rain.

And I knew when I entered her I was high wind in her forests hollow fingers whispering sound honey flowed         from the split cup impaled on a lance of tongues on the tips of her breasts on her navel and my breath howling into her entrances through lungs of pain.

Greedy as herring-gulls or a child I swing out over the earth over and over again.

Audre Lorde’s work is featured in our newest exhibit in the PCL’s Scholars Commons on the Black Queer Studies Collection. You can find her books at the PCL: http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/search~S29?/aLorde%2C+Audre./alorde+audre/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=alorde+audre&1%2C39%2C

Image by K. Kendall, Creative Commons Attribution License. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audre_Lorde.jpg

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We have a new exhibit up in the PLC Scholar Commons featuring the Black Queer Studies Collection!

The Black Queer Studies Collection is a virtual collection designated through catalog notes meant to increase the discoverability of UT libraries holdings in the area of African and African Diasporic Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies.

The collection was created in 2009 by former Women’s and Gender Studies Librarian Kristen Hogan in collaboration with Dr. Matt Richardson, faculty member in African and African Diaspora Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and English.

The exhibition highlights the range of the materials in the collection, which includes biography and memoir, critical and scholarly texts, fine art, music, poetry, theater, science fiction, and film all centering black queer experience. 

Exhibit curated by Hayley Morgenstern, Graduate Research Assistant/Ask a Librarian Intern

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Library student worker Hannah Jarzombek’s favorite book of poetry is Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” which includes his opus “Song of Myself.”

You can read the full poem on The Walt Whitman Archive: http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/27

Or check out a copy from the PCL: http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/record=b1691717~S29

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Poet and UT grad student Jason Ikpatt is reading his poetry tonight as part of our “Beyond Scholarship, Beyond Poetry” event at the PCL.

Jason is a student in Cell and Molecular Biology, and he connects his work as a scientist to his art. We love this excerpt because he interweaves the laws of thermodynamics into his poetry while also playing with religious imagery. Curious for more? Come to the reading tonight! It starts at 5:00 in the PCL’s UFCU Room.

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“Beyond Scholarship, Beyond Poetry: Graduate Student Spotlight” is tomorrow at 5 pm in the PCL UFCU Room. It features three excellent UT graduate student poets!

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“cross-section of the schooner phillis” by drea brown

This concrete poem is from drea brown’s book of poetry “dear girl: a reckoning.” In “dear girl” drea re-imagines and re-interprets the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to publish her writing. “dear girl” is a remarkable work of art and scholarship. You can find a copy in the PCL: http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/record=b9133703~S29

drea brown is reading her poetry tomorrow as part of the UT Libraries event “Beyond Poetry, Beyond Scholarship: Graduate Student Spotlight.” It starts at 5 pm in the PCL’s UFCU Room. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/calendar/beyond-scholarship-beyond-poetry-graduate-student-spotlight

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Social Science Librarian Carolyn Cunningham reads a poem about spring by Pablo Neruda! The UT Libraries has several copies of his work, including recordings and his poetry in the original Spanish! http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/search/X?SEARCH=pablo+neruda

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Our Graduate Research Assistant Montana Rindahl is a big fan of T.S. Eliot and recommended his poem “Little Gidding” from his book Four Quartets. Want to read more? The PCL has a copy: http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/record=b2488539~S23

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“It’s not the later that bothers me. It’s the sooner.” Harold Whit Williams is a jack of all trades. He’s in a band. He works for the UT Libraries, and he’s published poet! Here, he is reading one his poems published in the Kentucky Review. We have his books “Backmasking,” “Waiting for the Fire to Go Out,” and “Lost in the Telling” at the PCL.

It’s National Poetry Mont, so we’ll be posting about poetry all through the month of April!

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The Open Agenda: The Future of the UT Libraries

As a result of @utlibraries participation in the Google Books Project, more than a half million books from the stacks of the Benson Latin American Collection are now accessible online. 

Read more. 

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Snaps from The Foundry

As the last of the equipment was being installed and tested for the opening of The Foundry, resident mobile photography aficionado and Collections Logistics Librarian Stephen Littrell took his smartphone by the Fine Arts Library to capture some images from around the space in its pristine glory. Check ’em out.

And if you’d like to see the various 3-D printers, laser cutters, milling machines, virtual reality equipment and more in action, then join us next week for a ribbon cutting and open house at FAL, 12:30-2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 7.