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DISTRIBUTION OF STUBBORN TWIG, BAT 6, AND APPLES TO OREGON HAS BEGUN!
Orders of 10 copies or fewer of Stubborn Twig have already been shipped to libraries via the Orbis Cascade Courier or US Postal Service. If your books do not arrive by Friday, November 21 email Joel Henderson (Joel.Henderson@state.or.us).Libraries receiving 11 or more copies of Stubborn Twig should email Joel Henderson (Joel.Henderson@state.or.us) to schedule an appointment to pick them up at the Oregon State Library. There is an SDLAC meeting at the State Library on November 5th and a Library Directors meeting at the State Library on November 17th, these are excellent opportunities to pick up your books.
Contact Katie Anderson (katie.anderson@state.or.us), 503-378-2528, if you have any other questions about your order.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The State Library cannot guarantee there will be anyone available to help you if you drop by to pick up your books without an appointment.
OREGON POET LAUREATE INADA REFLECTS ON INTERNMENT
The NewsHours Poetry Series presents the profile of Oregon's poet laureate, Lawson Inada. Along with more than 100,000 other Japanese-Americans, Lawson Inada was sent to internment camps for the duration of World War II. He was one of the youngest to live in the camps, and much of his writing addresses that childhood experience. Inada speaks from the Portland Japanese Gardens. Download and listen to a podcast, view the streaming video, or read the transcript here.
