Treasures of the Rare Books Room - The Rubaiyat
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
Read moreAwake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
Read moreToday for National Hispanic Heritage Month we celebrate Teddy Higuera, one of the many great Latino Major League Baseball players who played for the Milwaukee Brewers or Braves!
Read moreWhy read YA? Because of these amazing characters of Hispanic heritage.
Read moreThe publication this month of I Didn't Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: Three Decades of Hispanic Writing by Cowfeather Press is an excellent opportunity to focus on Wisconsin's Hispanic poets. Oscar Mireles, the editor of this latest anthology, also put together two earlier anthologies on the "I Didn't Know..." theme, both of which are available at MPL. The new anthology will be joining them…
Read more“So what if nobody came?/ I’ll have all the ice cream and tea/ And I’ll laugh with myself/ And I’ll dance with myself/ And I’ll sing, 'Happy Birthday to me!'" - Shel Silverstein
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