Hours for the month of May

Beginning Monday, May 13 we will be open
Monday - Friday:  9 AM - 5 PM
Closed weekends, Closed Wednesday, May 15, and Closed Memorial Day, May 27.

We will announce our June schedule as soon as it is determined.  Due to many on-going projects in the library, our hours may change throughout the summer. 

If you have any questions about our summer hours, please call us at 505-473-6569.

SUMMER HOURS

During Finals Week, May 5-10, Fogelson Library is open these hours:
Sunday, May 5:  1 PM - 9PM
Monday - Thursday May 6-9:  8 AM - 9 PM
Friday, May 10:  8 AM - 5 PM

We will be open for a few hours around graduation:
Saturday, May 11:  9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Beginning Monday, May 13, our hours for the month of May will be:
Monday - Friday:  9 AM - 5 PM
Closed weekends, Closed Wednesday, May 15, and Closed Memorial Day, May 27.

We will announce our June schedule as soon as it is determined.  Due to many on-going projects in the library, our hours may change throughout the summer. 

If you have any questions about our summer hours, please call us at 505-473-6569.

GUEST POST BY SUNAMITA LIM: Celebrating April--National Poetry Month

April is appropriately anointed National Poetry Month. 'Tis the season to delight in fragrant blossoms bursting forth overnight with exquisite new energy—from lifeless branches embalmed too long in winter’s brown shrouds—on our high mountain desert.

“Energy is eternal delight,” celebrates English poet William Blake; while his fellow poet Alexander Pope encourages, “Hope springs eternal.” And therein lies the magic of poetry—pithy, positive profundity in a few words to heal broken dreams and barren living.

Poets are peerless in lifting up our spirits, in helping us soar or reach deep, deeper, deepest, to reconnect with the Creator’s gifts of grace from the infinite realms of the soul.

Take for instance the enduring the gift of hope. Emily Dickinson (who published only seven poems during her lifetime, but garnered accolades galore afterwards; indeed, an irony that artists accept) describes it thus:

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all.

Poets exhort us never ever to give up. Never allow dreams to fade; dreams fueled by the soaring power of the soul. African American poet Langston Hughes urges:

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.

Let us tune in anew to this apt analogy of the soul-bird constantly winging us from within such precious gifts of grace, in gifting us this soaring metaphor of quiet joy and fulfillment.

Poet Henry David Thoreau admits: “I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”

What “other things” to turn softly to, in the pursuit of happiness?

Consider then, a recent acquisition of Fogelson Library—The Jewels of Happiness  by poet-painter-musician-composer Sri Chinmoy  [call number B187 .H3 J49 2010]. Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes in the foreword: “These sweet gems of wisdom are timeless truths full of encouragement, love and goodness.” Primatologist Jane Goodall (a regular visitor to our City Different) finds: “Reading this book will allow you to experience a radiant and abundant awareness of how to achieve happiness.”

These exquisite jewels sparkle with timeless truths that seekers of the eternal beyond dream of: peace, love, joy, hope, wisdom, patience, enthusiasm, power, simplicity, sincerity, humility and gratitude.

Whether aspiring to becoming an accomplished poet, painter, musician, filmmaker or writer, our slog as artists is long and hard. Yet, as Emily Dickinson showed, there is abiding satisfaction towards attaining a never-ending state of perfection. It’s a journey tangled with uncertainty and fear of the unknown. However, when we prevail on the soul’s jewels of happiness, they can bless us with divine confidence to never let our dreams die.

When I introduced this book to Margaret van Dyk, Fogelson Library’s Acting Director, she asked:

     “What can artists learn from these jewels?”

     “To accept the art of learning with due diligence and patience,” I responded.

Lo and behold! Margaret spontaneously flipped to page 83, Chapter 6, on—you guessed it—“Patience.”  Morgan Light, another librarian, also witnessed this page-turning sleight of The Unseen Hand. The three of us broke out in laughter in Fogelson Library, unsilenced by the gravity, and levity, of the situation. Divine serendipity had intervened, yet again.

So, artists and all alike, take heart. “Anything that is momentous, anything that is enduring, cannot be achieved overnight. But the fact that something momentous requires patience is no reason for you to be discouraged,” offers Sri Chinmoy. This chapter ends with his poem:

Impossibility

Always bows

To humanity’s

Patience-mountain.

When we wish upon a star or for our soul’s light to shine the way, good things do happen. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours,” observes poet Henry David Thoreau.

For your own copy, try these Santa Fe indies: More Books and Op Cit on Cerrillos Road, Garcia Street Books and Collected Works; in Albuquerque, Bookworks and Page One.

On March 19, 2013 the audio book for The Jewels of Happiness was released at the United Nations in New York City. Fittingly, from 1970-2007, the author had led twice-weekly, “Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations.” This audio book features readings by singer Roberta Flack, Olympian Carl Lewis, Broadway star Judith Light and others. http://www.jewelsofhappiness.com/jewels/jewels-of-happiness-audiobook-launching-on-march-19th/

(BTW, back in 1987, Sri Chinmoy founded the largest relay run to promote world peace, a biennial global event that includes Santa Fe. Runners are welcome in 2014 and beyond! http://www.worldharmonyrun.org/usa/route2012)  

Wishing you divinely serendipitous moments with poetry and patience,

Sunamita Lim

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

It is April, and once again National Poetry Month when Fogelson Library features some of the many volumes of poetry in the collection.  

 

On our "New Books" you will find an entire shelf of new poetry volumes.

The main display table holds some of the books we have about the craft of poetry.


Don't forget to come by the library for your poem on 
April 17 and 18 for POEM-IN-YOUR-POCKET days.
You can read more about the Poem-In-Your-Pocket project here .

 

FOGELSON LIBRARY RESEARCH AWARD

The Fogelson Library Research Award Committee is pleased to announce the three winners of our second annual Research Award.  In first place is Nicholas Cueto.  Bryce Chismire earned a second place award.  Our third place award winner is Mickel Estrada.  Each student wrote a research paper that met or exceeded our expectations. We were looking for well written and well researched thesis-driven papers.

These students were enrolled in Writing Roundtable I and II classes. Their research papers were submitted by their professors who decided the papers merited our consideration. Nicholas Cueto, a Contemporary Music student, was a student in Mendy Gladden’s “Language Mind and Culture” class, as was Bryce Chismire, who is studying Graphic Design. Mickel Estrada, a Creative Writing student, was in Liz Tidrick’s “The Writer as Outsider” class. Thank you to these two professors for inspiring their students to excel in this area of academic writing and research.

The three winners gathered at the library to receive their award Tuesday, February 26, 2013.

Nicholas Cueto, student of Mendy Gladden

Bryce Chismire, student of Mendy Gladden

Mickel Estrada, student of Liz Tidrick

Go to our FogelsonLibrary Research Award site for more information about the award.

Thank you to the Friends of the Library for their donation of the prize money.  Their continued support of the Fogelson Library is a valuable asset to the Santa Fe University of Art and Design community.

Congratulations to Nicholas, Bryce and Mickel!

        Thanks to the Friends for this program. 

Photos courtesy of Thea Rose Light  ©2013.