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Solar Eclipse

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Join Tazewell County Public Library at Critterville Park in Richlands on Monday, April 8 from 2-4:00pm for the Solar Eclipse. Be a Citizen Scientist and help us to document local wildlife’s reaction to the Eclipse. This program is free and open to all ages. Parents or caregivers must accompany children under age 12. A limited supply of Eclipse glasses will be available. No sign up necessary.

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Early Planting

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Join TCPL-Bluefield and Tazewell County Master Gardeners on Tuesday, 3/26/24, 4:30 – 5:30 pm for early planting in the library garden. We will plant seeds and transplants that are hardy enough to take a little cold weather. All ages are welcome to participate. Children should be accompanied by an adult. This is the beginning of our 2024 garden program at the library. More planting and harvesting are to come.

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Writing into Your Family Archive Through Poetry

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April is National Poetry Month! Join us for a free poetry event open to the public at the Bluefield Library on Thursday, April 25th from 6:30pm – 8pm.

We all have inherited things from our families. Some of these inheritances may be tangible items—journals, quilts, recipes, letters, jewelry, photographs, or even the gift of living on the same land our ancestors once walked. For others, inheritance is found in memory—stories told (or overheard) about elders or family rituals.

In this generative workshop, “Writing Into Your Family Archive Through Poetry,” we will explore the tangible and intangible forms of what we’ve inherited, read model poems that offer poetry craft tools on writing about our inheritances, and write new poems together. By the end of our time together, it is my hope that you lean into the silences and omissions—both intentional and unintentional—that come with families and family histories and imagine possibilities for, or stumble upon revelations from, these relationships. This workshop is open to adult writers at every stage of their writing journey. We will all learn from each other. Please bring with you to our gathering one item that has been passed down to you or kept in your family.

Workshop leader bio: L. Renée is a poet, nonfiction writer, and collector of her family’s stories. A descendant of proud Black Appalachians who labored in coal towns and tobacco fields, she was selected by the National Association of Black Storytellers as the winner of the 2023 Black Appalachian Storyteller’s Fellowship representing the Commonwealth of Virginia. Nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and two Pushcart Prizes, her work has been published in ObsidianTin House Online, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, the minnesota review, and American Life in Poetry. She won the international 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize and Appalachian Review’s 2020 Denny C. Plattner Award, and third place for the international 2023 Poetry London Prize. She has earned fellowships from Cave Canem and the Watering Hole. Her work has been supported by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc., Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Peter Bullough Foundation, Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and others. L. Renée holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where she was nonfiction editor of Indiana Review, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Moore Fellow.

Visit her website: lreneepoems.com

Photo credit to Jeffrey Albright from the Peter Bullough Foundation.

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Spring Fling

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Meet the Library Unicorn and enjoy Dancing and Crafting as we Celebrate Spring at the Tazewell Train Station. Costumes and Dance Shoes Welcome! Free Family Friendly Fun! This event is for all ages with no sign up.

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Richlands Winter Bird Count

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Join the Richlands Library for our first annual Winter Bird Count at the pavilion at Critterville Park.  Dress warmly, outdoor event. This is a free event for all ages. No sign up is necessary.

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