Books Matter Too

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#booksmatter, anti-censorship, banned books week, censorship, first amendment, fREADom, read banned books

Let’s fight censorship…
defend the first amendment,
’cause books matter too.

-StevieStreets #LibraryDiaries | Books Matter Too: read banned books

Explore The Stacks

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anti-censorship, banned books week, censorship, fREADom, read banned books, READstricted, the stacks

Let’s explore the stacks!
Look for books from the banned list,
celebrate fREADom.

–@StevieStreets #LibraryDiaries | from THE COFFEEHOUSE COLLECTION: Explore The Stacks: read banned books

National Read A Book Day 2016

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#turnupabook, celebrate reading, library diaries, local author collection, read local

September 6 is
NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY;
#turnupabook, please.

Download an eBook,
crack open a Hardcover,
or a paperback.

Celebrate Reading!
Today is read a book day,
read more and talk less.

Browse your library’s
local author collection,
read local today.

Read for an hour… or
read a few chapters. By all
means, make sure you read.

–@StevieStreets #readabookday #haiku | National Read A Book Day 2016

The Book Exchange

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#datlibrarylife, #librariesofinstagram, bih better have my books, hostage negotiations, library circulation, read it return it, return your books, the circ department

Read It! Return It!
’cause the circ team be like… BIH
BETTER HAVE MY BOOKS! 😂

Yeah, you have our books.
It’s cool, we have your boy. Then
came the book exchange.

The #circdepartment
#librariesofinstagram
#datlibrarylife

The circulation
department is the heartbeat
of the library.

–@StevieStreets #librarycirculation #haiku | from THE LIBRARY DIARIES COLLECTION: The Book Exchange

postscript:

We don’t want your boy…
pay your fines, return your books;
you have 14 days.

Hello September!

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cool kids, coolest library, library card sign-up month, library cards, library diaries, library out loud, literacy, the arts

Hello September!
LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH,
we welcome you back. 😉

The best school supply
is a library card; all
the cool kids have one. 😎

#LIBRARYOUTLOUD!
The coolest library is
Stonecrest Library…

#THINKBEYONDTHEBOOKS,
Literacy runs deep. Read.
Write. Recite. Repeat.

CELEBRATE THE ARTS;
join us on September 10th,
we’ll have spoken word.

–@StevieStreets #librarycardsignup #haiku | from THE LIBRARY DIARIES COLLECTION: Hello September!

My Second Major Breakup

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bookish, bookstore love, borders bookstore, library love, seattle's best

This was my second major breakup…

For weeks, I couldn’t wake up
without thoughts of the cutie in the café reading The Coldest Winter ever.
I could remember clear as day,
she was sippin’ Seattles Best, her smile was the warmest ever.
We shared books, music, videos, and coffeehouse culture in the café…
and then came the breakup.

This was my second major breakup…
My bookshop love left me lonely.
Sure, there were other bookstores
but nothing compared to the homie.
I like BIG BOOKS and I cannot lie,
I had to go online to order books after the breakup…

And I’m a classic man,
I couldn’t cope with Nooks and Kindles;
l was forced to rekindle an old flame.

Yeah… I had my coffeehouse girl,
she rocked my world
but the love was not the same.

She liked the movie,
I liked the book,
the two are not one in the same.

The game’s not the same,
I want that ol’ thang back…
I need a special girl in this computerized (digital love) world.
Nowadays they serenade Computer Love
with no Roger, no Zapp;
they shooby doo bop to the tune of audiobooks and apps,
it’s breaking my heart.

The game’s not the same,
I want that ol’ thang back…
trips down memory lane
had me thinking about my librarian love;
ahh my lovely literati,
she’s always had my heart.

The game’s not the same,
I want that ol’ thang back…
Yeah… I miss Borders Bookstores
but the library,
ahh my beloved bookspace,
she’s far more than a pretty bookface.
She’s the one that turned my heart into a MakerSpace,
to keep our shared interest in place.
She’ll always have special place in my heart,
truthfully speaking,
my library love is the reason why I love language arts.

–@StevieStreets #bookish #poem | My Second Major Breakup

Geek Love

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a novel affair, embrace the weirdness, geek the library, geekish, reading is the new sexy, smart is the new cool, stay weird

Inseparable…
like pages binded in books;
they called it geek love.

A novel affair…
they met in the library,
that good ol’ geek love.

GEEK THE LIBRARY
stickers peppered her notebook…
He loved her geekness.

Embrace Your Geekness,
your weirdness is wonderful…
don’t hide the madness.

Be kind, love a geek…
#readingisthenewsexy,
#smartisthenewcool.

You’re far from boring,
be your plain ol’ nerdy self…
don’t try to fit in.

Gorgeous and Geekish…
“don’t be afraid to geek out,”
he whispered to her.

–@StevieStreets #stayweird #haiku | Geek Love

$200 Poetry Month Slam

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#datlibrarylife, library love, national poetry month, poetry is not dead, poetry slam, poets, writers

Nearly 3 minutes,
15 poets reciting…
The #POETRYSLAM!

Join us – April 9th
at Stonecrest Library with
Kodac Harrison.

These haiku are for…
National Poetry Month
Two Thousand Sixteen!

$200…
well; that would be for you, the
poets and writers.

-Stevie #poetrymonth | $200 Poetry Month Slam

Postscript:
@scribesandvibes is held
on 2nd Saturdays at
Stonecrest Library

Sweet Decadence

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chocolate aficionado, chocolate truffles, decadence, GODIVA, indulgence

GODIVA, you have
perfected the truffle; oh –
my – sweet decadence.

–@StevieStreets #sweettooth | from THE COFFEEHOUSE COLLECTION: Sweet Decadence

Sounds like Paradise

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#readingisthenewsexy, #turnupabook, bookish, chocolate truffles, good reads

Chocolate Truffles…
and a couple of good books;
sounds like paradise 😉

–@StevieStreets #turnupabook #readingisthenewsexy | from THE COFFEEHOUSE COLLECTION: Sounds Like Paradise