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Could you or someone you know use food, medical, or cash assistance but don't know how to get the process started?

Have you been told you can apply for benefits online, but don't know how?

Denver Human Services and Denver Public Library have joined forces to help people apply for benefits, find out if they're eligible, and track benefits once they've received them. Denver Human Services staff will work with customers on a first-come-first-served basis on Level 4 of the Central Library every Wednesday from 10-2.

Our next meeting is Saturday, April 20 from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Burnham Hoyt book club room at the Central Library. We’re reading Glow by Amy Ryan. If you want to join us, read the book and come hang out. We’ll have coffee and donuts. If you don’t get a chance to read the book in time but want to join the book club, come by anyway. We’ll be picking books for the next sessions plus talking about the book we read. I’m pretty sure no one bites.

Achebe was critical of the portrayal of African people and civilization in Western literature as barbaric or inarticulate, and worked to change this false perception through his own works and through the founding of Okike, a Nigerian literary magazine.  He was active in Nigerian politics and government, sometimes at the risk of his own safety.  He was awarded The Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

Here is a sampling of his titles available through Denver Public Library:

His novels:

Heart and Soul: Sitar and Tabla Concert

Saturday, March 23, 2-3 p.m.
Central Library, Level 1 Schlessman Hall

I was honored to add my salient thoughts to the abundance of ingenious ideas being shared. And soon enough, you will be asked to share your good ideas for Denver's cultural horizon. It will be a significant moment in which Denver asks it's citizens to become shareholders -- stewards -- of our cultural growth and integrity. 

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Websites use it to announce when they have a new post and users can then subscribe to those announcements (called RSS feeds) to be constantly updated. If you sign up for email announcements for a blog you like, for example, you get constantly notified. Maybe even annoyingly so. But with RSS, you can sign up and get the update when you want (or still have the notification announce itself). They run behind a lot of websites too. Almost every podcast uses RSS to deliver their new episodes.

In 1999 during their 30th session the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declared March 21 to be World Poetry Day. In part because "[t]here is still a tendency in the media and among the general public to refuse to take the poet seriously. Action is needed to free ourselves in order to make this image a thing of the past and to give poetry its rightful place in society."1

Children's Book Week is May 13-19 and celebrates books for young people of all ages. While the Children's Book Week website has all kinds of good stuff on it, like a cool search-and-find bookmark by Grace Lin and the Children's Book Week poster by Brian Selznick, but my favorite part is voting for the best books. The Children's Choice Book Awards honor books for Kindergarten - High School.

The Blair-Caldwell Library created the Scribes, Scholars and Storytellers series to assist and uplift members of the Denver African American community that are involved in or trying to break into the published field. We strive to offer material from a wide range of genres. This year we have an awesome variety of talent. 13 Denver based scholars, poets and authors who will be sharing their creativity ending May 22. Join us for an exciting series, promising a little something for everyone!

On Thursday, March 21, join the Butterfly Pavilion for a double session at the Bear Valley Branch--Butterfly Gardening at 2 p.m. and Busy Bees at 3 p.m. Learn what it takes to attract butterflies to your garden, and then hear all about the lives of honey bees, including a honey tasting, seeing a honeycomb, and feeling beeswax. Come for one or both sessions!