Get your poems ready for our October Slam!

Poetry Event!

The Field Library in Peekskill is proud to present Chris August*!

Chris August will hold a series of workshops and performances at Peekskill’s Middle and High schools with a culminating public performance and open mike, for all ages at 3:30 p.m. in the Field Library.

One and all are welcome to attend and PARTICIPATE, so bring along some of your own best poetry, or a favorite poem that you would like to share.

Pizza and refreshments  will be served.

The Field Library is wheelchair-accessible, and is located at 4 Nelson Avenue, Peekskill, NY. For more information, please contact Nancy Lee Lewis, Teen Librarian at 914.737.4390 or NLewis@wlsmail.org.

Chris August Bio:

Chris August, a writer and special educator from Baltimore, Maryland. Chris has been a part of the national poetry slam community since 2002. In that time, he has been ranked among the top ten performance poets in the world and has performed and competed across the country. He is the author of several self published collections of poetry.

*Our originally scheduled poet, Dawn Saylor, had to reschedule.  Fortunately for all of us, our amazing Slam Master Zork has many poets up his sleeve and we are very excited for the return of Chris August!

Come join us at the Field Library and check out our display for banned books week.

Links:

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm?gclid=CKaHttqRqqsCFcEa6wodPjkbzQ

http://www.banned-books.com/

http://www.banned-books.com/bblista-i.html

Of course we do: from r&b to pop even classics.  Come check them out!!!

Here are just a few of the cd’s we have.  Something you want but can’t find?  Let us know!

                                    Lupe Fiasco – Food and Liqour

System of a Down- Hypnotize

My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade

Lady Gaga- The Fame Monster

Michael Jackson- Thriller

Jay Z- American Gangster

Nicki Minaj- Pink Friday

How I Stole Johhny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend by Gray Ghislain

David Gershwin’s summer is about to take a turn for the weird. When his dad’s new patient Zelda tells him shes from outer space and on a quest to take Johnny Depp back to her planet, he knows he should run away screaming. But with one look from her mean, green eyes, David’s hooked, and soon he’s leaping across rooftops, running from police, and stealing cars just to stay by her side. He might not be a typical hero, but David’s going to get the girl even if it takes him to the ends of the earth or beyond.

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Drugged and kidnapped from her parents at the Bangkok airport, English teen Gemma wakes to find herself in the weirdly beautiful but desolate Australian outback. Her only company is her captor, a handsome young Australian named Ty, who is obsessed with her. Indeed, he tells her that he has been watching her since she was a child and now plans to keep her with him forever. Told in the form of a letter Gemma is writing to Ty, Christopher’s first novel is a complex psychological study that is also a tribute to the hypnotic beauty of the outback, which Ty passionately loves and feels has been “stolen” by those who would exploit it for gain.

Everlasting by Alyson Noël

Their darkest enemies now defeated, Damen and Ever are free to embark upon their final quest—to free Damen from the poison lingering in his body.  If they can just find the antidote, they’ll finally be able to feel each other’s touch—and experience the passionate night they’ve been longing for.  But their fight to be together will lead them into the most formidable terrain yet…into the dark heart of Summerland. Here in a land of scorched earth and endless rain, Ever and Damen will discover their relationship’s hidden origins, expose a secret history they never imagined…and come face to face with the true reason fate keeps tearing them apart.  Only then, when the final mystery is unraveled and the last secret revealed, Ever and Damen’s future will hinge on one ultimate decision that will put everything at stake….even eternity.

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

The Mortal War is over, and Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her.  She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last.

Losing Romeo by A.J. Byrd

Best Friends Forever—that’s Anjenai, Kierra and Tyler. Growing up together in an Atlanta housing project, the girls have always been there for each other. But high school is a whole new world, and the drama is just beginning.

Flip by Martyn Bedford

One December night, 14-year-old Alex goes to  bed. He wakes up to  find himself in the wrong bedroom, in an unfamiliar house, in a different part of the country, and it’s the middle of June. Six months have disappeared overnight. The family at the breakfast table are total strangers.
And when he looks in the mirror, another boy’s face stares back at him.  A boy named Flip. Unless Alex finds out what’s happened and how to get back to his own life,  he may be trapped forever inside a body that belongs to someone else. Questions of identity, the will to survive, and what you’re willing to sacrifice to be alive make this extraordinary book impossible to put down.

Drought by Pam Bachorz

Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from the backbreaking work of gathering Water. Escape from living as if it is still 1812, the year they were all enslaved.
When Ruby meets Ford–an irresistible, kind, forbidden new Overseer–she longs to run away with him to the modern world, where she could live a normal teenage live. Escape with Ford would be so simple.
But if Ruby leaves, her community is condemned to certain death. She, alone, possess the secret ingredient that makes the Water so special–her blood–and it’s the one thing that the Congregation cannot live without.
Drought is the haunting story of one community’s thirst for life, and the dangerous struggle of the only girl who can grant it.

Red Blood Road by Moira Young

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That’s fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother, Lugh, is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives bearing four cloaked horsemen, Saba’s world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on a quest to get him back.

Red Moon Rising by Peter Moore

Being a half-vamp in a place like Carpathia Night High makes you a whole loser. But Danny Gray manages to escape the worst of the specists at his school. Thanks to genetic treatments he has as an infant, most people assume Danny’s other half is human. Ever since development of synthetic blood-SynHeme- vamps have become society’s elite, while wulves like Danny’s father work menial jobs and live in bad neighborhoods.

Timeless by Alexandra Monir

After her mother is killed in an automobile accident, Michelle Windsor is flown from her cozy Venice Beach, California, neighborhood to the palatial New York City home of her grandparents, whom, due to strained family relationships, she has never met. In this new, wealthy environment, she is introduced to the family history through a diary that transports her back to 1910 and details a feud between the Windsors and the Walkers. In a riff on Romeo and Juliet, Michelle falls for Phillip Walker and must decide how to extricate herself from their romance so that he can live a rich and fulfilling life in his own time and space.

Get your poems ready for our October Slam!

Poetry Event!

On Wednesday, October 5th, The Field Library in Peekskill is proud to present Dawn Saylor!

Dawn Saylor will hold a series of workshops and performances at Peekskill’s Middle and High schools with a culminating public performance and open mike, for all ages at 3:30 p.m. in the Field Library.

One and all are welcome to attend and PARTICIPATE, so bring along some of your own best poetry, or a favorite poem that you would like to share.

Pizza and refreshments  will be served.

The Field Library is wheelchair-accessible, and is located at 4 Nelson Avenue, Peekskill, NY. For more information, please contact Nancy Lee Lewis, Teen Librarian at 914.737.4390 or NLewis@wlsmail.org.

Dawn Saylor Bio:

Born the daughter of itinerant Christian ministers, Dawn Saylor grew up under revival tents in Pennsylvania.

One of the original spoken words poets to appear on HBO’s Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry, her powerful work has been described as “cutting like a broken bottle with the soul of a butterfly.”

Saylor is an eloquent spokesperson for the human heart in all its fragile beauty and resilience. She has captained three poetry slam teams (from Kalamazoo, MI) all the way to the National Poetry Slam championships and is a master of the “group piece,” or multi-voiced poem. Taking cues from Janis Joplin, Sandra Cisneros, and Liesel Mueller, she weaves the vivid patterns of her tremendous mythology into pure magic. While pursuing a degree in education from Goddard College’s low-residency program, Dawn also helps manage the Bowery Poetry Club, New York City’s only club devoted entirely to poetry and spoken word..

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All middle school students come join the Field Library Middle School book club!!!! REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED!!!!

Celebrate the  Summer with the Field Library Teens!

Awards will be given to Summer Reading Challenge winners!

If you haven’t entered, do it before next Thursday!

For more information, visit http://fieldlibraryteens.wordpress.com/summer-2011/

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All teens are welcome!  Show up early so we can make sure to order enough pizza for everyone!