Monday Apr 11, 2022

Hays Public Library celebrates national poetry month during busy April

On this epidsode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares the latest from the library.

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James Bell
It's a busy spring as they get ready for an even busier summer at the Hays Public Library, Communications Coordinator, Callie Kolacny, and he stops by to share with us the latest from the Hays Public Library on this episode of the Post Podcast.

Callie Kolacny
National Poetry Month. And we really liked poetry at the library. So we've got several programs coming up. We had the Kansas Poet Laureate at the library last Saturday, so this past weekend to do a poetry reading and that went really well. It was really great to have him here in Hays, and then coming up on the 18th. So next Monday is haiku poetry days, you can come and present some haiku poetry listen to other haiku poetry that will be at five o'clock on Monday, the 18th. Then we also, of course, have our annual poetry contest. This is the 22nd year for the poetry contest, it will be on April 22, at 6pm. In the last two years, because of the pandemic, we did an online version of this, but we're back to in person now. So you will bring your original poem, and you can only do one poem. So bring your original poem, please bring four copies of that poem. Present that at the library. It'll start at 6pm on the 22nd. And it'll be judged and the winners will, there'll be some prizes for the winners, all poetry that submitted will be printed into the journal mirrors, which is a journal of all the poetry. This is for ages 16 and older, as I said, one poem, one original poem, and come and join us on April 22. Evening of your don't write poetry, just come and listen and find out there's amazing poets in this community.

James Bell
Truly, truly, there is, you know, I So are they gonna, if you if you're wanting to participate, then when do you have to read the poet poem out loud? Or to the group? Or can you sneak

Callie Kolacny
in and just sneak it in? I think that they want you to present it. I don't know if that is an actual requirement or not. I didn't ask that question. So I'm not positive on that. I think that the the goal is to have you present your poetry, and also bring other poetry because there'll be a period of time when when everybody's done before the judges have decided that there's gonna be an open mic. So, you know, bring some other poetry, whether it's yours or somebody else's, just bring some other poetry to, to read and entertain.

James Bell
Yeah, very cool. And you know, if you ever been to a poetry reading, I know, I know, when I think about it. I think about poetry readings, I remember back to college going through sent some really dull stuff, but these are, these are fun. My wife, who's an English teacher, you know, she works with the English group down there, and they do poetry stuff all the time. And they just have a blast. It's crazy how much fun they have.

Callie Kolacny
Yeah, I mean, some of its serious. Some of it's funny, you just never know what you're going to get. So it's very entertaining.

James Bell
Absolutely. And again, that's coming up on April 22. At six o'clock, the Haiku Poetry Day.

Callie Kolacny
April 18. Yes, at five o'clock. Very cool.

James Bell
You've also got a for those kiddos. I think you're in contests coming up, right?

Callie Kolacny
Yeah, we are partnering with cost of the High Plains. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. And so we decided to do a coloring contest just to recognize this month. And so we are providing the, we're the location where you pick up the coloring sheets, everybody's going to do the same picture. And then we'll have three age groups, zero to five, six to 11 and 12, to 18. And so you pick up your sheets, you have to have them returned to the library by April 22. And they will be displayed at the spring Artwalk on April 30. There will be winners classes, providing gift baskets for each of the age groups, for the winners in those age groups. And it's just it's a great way we love to partner with community organizations. So we're very proud to partner with Casa on this project.

James Bell
Yeah, that's awesome what and when you talk about an impactful and worthwhile organization who Casa those the what they do is is tremendously demanding but also very, very much needed.

Callie Kolacny
Yes, very much so and so and that you know, they're right across the street from the libraries though it's a great partnership with them and so we're really happy to work with them and hope that we get lots of people come come pick up your the coloring sheet it is you find them on the second floor, there's some of the children's desks and some of the why a desk and come pick them up. Just make sure that you have them returned by April 22. So that we can judge them the next week and we'll have some winners and everything will be announced later that that next week.

James Bell
Very cool. Very cool. Well now moving on into some of the regular events going on. I love these these making sense of and you got a pretty cool one coming up. Oh goodness is this tonight?

Callie Kolacny
Tomorrow? Tomorrow? Yep. Tomorrow making sense of mushrooms with professors Mike from professors is going to be there to talk about the mushrooms that they grow, figuring out how to teach you how to grow them, how to cook with them, just different things you can do with mushrooms, so making sense of mushrooms, with professors will be at tomorrow at 530. It'll be at the it's at the library, not at professors. And that's a library. So yeah, that it'll be a fun these, these programs have been great. And they've been well attended and so excited to have another one, we are going to continue them through the summer as well. So we're, we're excited to have more of these programs. So that'll be tomorrow night at 530. And then we're having DIY seasonings on Thursday night at six o'clock. So you can learn how to make your own seasoning mixtures and things like that. We'll have our painting class. So that'll be April 19, at 6pm. So that's next week, then we're going to have a viewing of everything is illuminated, followed by a discussion on April 24. At 6pm. It's for this month is also Holocaust remembrance. And so this is a program that is based on that. So everything is illuminated will be followed by discussion by Amber nickel. She's the one that did our Ukrainepresentation.

James Bell
She joined us on the show here last week.

Callie Kolacny
Yeah, and the Holocaust is one also one of her areas of expertise. So she will be in following are leading that discussion of that viewing. We will have a family storytime on April 23 at 10 a m, that's a great opportunity for people who are working during the week and can't come to storytimes with their kiddos, this is a nice Saturday for them to come to a storytime that'll be again April 23. At 10am. We also have the as I said, the spring Artwalk will be April 30, we'll have some that's going to be another Saturday all day come and go thing throughout downtown Hayes. So we will have some jazz music for an hour at 130 to 230. So you can come and enjoy some jazz music at the library while you're doing the spring Art Walk. Of course, Star Wars Day May the fourth so we always do something for Star Wars days. So we'll have some kind of a program at four o'clock on May the fourth and then we've got a program, the Hayes Arts Council is bringing this group to town laughing matters. And they're going to do a presentation at the library. It's a variety show, that'll be on May the fifth at 6:30pm.

James Bell
Awesome, awesome. You can find about more about these events, you have a really pretty cool calendar on your website, right?

Callie Kolacny
We do we have a great calendar on the website, just go to his library.org. And up at the top, there's events and then go to the calendar. That's the one that's updated all the time. We also have these our program booklets. And, of course, the the one that we did, it was January through April. So it's you know, almost the end of that one. So put together the summer one is more of a magazine style, it's a little bit bigger than the other ones have been because we have a lot of programs coming up in the summer. So that will be coming out later this month. So be on the lookout for that. And that is also available on the website. So you can you can still find the one that's for this current time period on the website. But then this new one will be on there as well.

James Bell
Very cool. You mentioned the summer is coming up, are you going to have your Beanstack challenges coming back as well are the summer challenge.

Callie Kolacny
You know, some people just call us, you know, summer reading, but it's more than just reading. So we kind of call ours the summer challenge. It is coming up registration will begin may 1, and you can register through Beanstack or at the library. But you do have to register in order to be eligible to win any of the prizes. So we'll talk a lot more about this next month. But do want to let people know this is coming up. You can register beginning meet may 1, if you need help with the Beanstack in the online things, just talked to the staff at the library. We know how to do this, how to get you set up, we'd be happy to create your account for you. But it's gonna be a lot of fun. The theme this year is oceans of possibilities. So a lot of things about oceans, which is not very, you know, common around here, obviously. But it's fascinating. And it's interesting. We're doing a big project with the Sternberg museum as well. So I'll have more information on that next month. So just be ready. Be ready for summer challenge.

James Bell
Very cool. Look forward to hearing about that one. Now. We got a holiday coming up. Is it gonna affect your hours down there at the library as we do close?

Callie Kolacny
For Good Friday, we close at noon. So this coming Friday, we will be closing at noon and then we will be closed on Sunday for Easter. We will be open on Saturday though so you can still come on Saturday but close Friday at noon and all day on Sunday.

James Bell
Okay, so make that note. If you're looking to head down to library Friday and Saturday, you're gonna have those limited hours. All righty, Kelly, well, we've got just about 30 seconds or so left. If people want to find out more about what's going on to library what's the best way for him to do so.

Callie Kolacny
Follow us on social media. I try to post a lot of stuff on social media about what's coming up. So Facebook, Twitter and Instagram just look for his public library. Also, the website has lots of information. He's library.org. As I said, you can get those event calendars and just other things on the website. And if you need information you want to talk to somebody 6259014 Is the phone number happy to talk to you

Hays Public Library celebrates national poetry month during busy April

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