Happy Poetry Month! We have several extra copies of *Shelter* by poet Margaret Hasse and artist Sharon DeMark <https://www.margarethasse.com/shelter.html>. I will send one to the first 24 libraries that say they are interested. While quarantined during covid, Hasse collaborated with her neighbor and colleague DeMark to create this book. One of them would send over a piece of work that would inspire the other's art. This collaboration explores the different meanings and types of shelter. [image: image.png] Here's an example: "Hug" from Shelter Margaret Hasse, poet, and Sharon DeMark, artist [image: image.png] To fit together is one branch in the language roots of “arm.” How regrettable that arms name hardware of war. The only right to bear arms safely is the caring capacity of our amazing appendages that comfort and caress, have and hold, cradle and rock, clasping each other close. -- Thomas Trahey Mason County District Library Head of Circulation 231-843-8465
