I saw the email and tucked it away for later, as this week has been busy for me. I’m now regretting having put off reading it.
Powell’s usually hits the mark for April Fool’s jokes. This year is no exception. I hope this page stays up a while. Check out Cantaloupe by Powell’s Books.
April 1
Edmond Rostand
Augusta Baker
Samuel Ray Delaney
April 2
Hans Christian Andersen
Émile Zola
Sue Townsend
April 3
George Herbert
Washington Irving
Jane Goodall
April 4
Robert Emmet Sherwood
Marguerite Duras
Maya Angelou
Joanna Reis
April 5
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Booker T Washington
Robert Bloch
Anthony Horowitz
Richard Peck
April 6
Graeme Base
April 7
Charles Baudelaire
Paule Marshall
April 8
Trina Schart Hyman
April 9
Margaret Peterson Haddix
April 10
William Hazlitt
Joseph Pulitzer
Paul Theroux
Martin Waddell
April 11
Glenway Wescott
Leo Rosten
Gary Soto
April 12
Beverly Cleary
Tom Clancy
Scott Turow
April 13
Nella Larsen
Marguerite Henry
Samuel Beckett
Eudora Welty
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Erik Christian Haugaard
April 14
James Branch Cabell
Arnold Toynbee
April 15
Henry James
Waverly Root
Jacqueline Briggs Martn
April 16
Anatole France
Gertrude Chandler Warner
John Millington Synge
Garth Williams
Kingsley Amis
April 17
Karen Blixen
Thornton Wilder
Cynthia Ozick
April 18
Richard Harding Davis
April 19
Etheridge Knight
April 20
Mary Hoffman
April 21
Charlotte Bronté
Thomas McMahon
Kole Omsotoso
Barbara Park
April 22
Henry Fielding
Ellen Glasgow
Eileen Christelow
James Norman Hall
Vladimir Nabokov
Louise Glück
Paula Fox
April 23
William Shakespeare
Edwin Markham
JP Donleavy
Charles Johnson
April 24
Anthony Trollope
Robert Penn Warren
Sue Grafton
April 25
Padget Powell
Maud Hart Lovelace
April 26
Marcus Aurelius
Bernard Malamud
Patricia Reilly Giff
April 27
Edward Gibbon
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Ludwig Bemelmans
John Burningham
Nancy Shaw
Steven D’amico
August Wilson
April 28
Harper Lee
Lois Duncan
Terry Pratchett
Carolyn Forché
Amy Hest
April 29
William Randolph Hearst
Jill Paton Walsh
Yusef Komunyakaa
April 30
Alice B Toklas
Annie Dillard
Happy birthday, Andrew Marvell!
Another in an occasional series of Little Free Libraries in 
Southeast Portland.
I went a different route home from work recently, and was treated to this. I’ve been meaning to visit this Little Free Library for a while, but hadn’t made the opportunity before. LFL #1432 is based at Busy Bee Preschool, at 7618 SE Duke Street.
There wasn’t much of anything in the library today. I wonder what kind of traffic it usually has. I was in some sort of publicly-available wifi dead zone – I tried a couple of times to open the Little Locator app to mark it, but never was able to get in. Maybe I can plan a day to go this route again, and take some books for it.
This week, Division92 Little Free Library is featuring books to help you make your own medicine. Please use common sense, please don’t overdo it (no “if some is helpful, more is better”!), please consider checking with your healthcare professional for any allergies or conflicts with other medicines or supplements you are currently taking, or with any illnesses or conditions you already have.
This week the Division92 Little Free Library is featuring the songbooks of Sandra Boynton. You probably know her best from her massively popular card:
Did you know she also writes (and co-writes) children’s songs? And convinces hugely popular celebrities to sing them? We’re putting out her first three songbooks. Unfortunately, the CDs are missing from each of the books. HOWEVER! You can find the songs on YouTube! For instance:
Where else can you hear Kate Winslet & Weird Al Yankovic singing a duet? When was the last time you heard Scott Bakula sing? What other album contains performances by both Hootie & the Blowfish AND Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme?
Join Multnomah County Library, PRISM (Multnomah County’s LGBTQ Employee Resource Group), and the Hollywood Theatre in celebrating Transgender 
Day of Visibility with a screening of the documentary Kiki followed by a panel featuring Portland Ballroom PDXB performers and organizers.
Directed by Sara Jordenö and co-written by Twiggy Pucci Garçon, a leader in New York’s kiki community, 2016’s KIKI is a dynamic coming of age story about resilience and the transformative art form of vogueing. KIKI follows seven New York City LGBTQ youth of color who face real struggles creating a safe and vibrant space for themselves to vogue.
Free tickets available on Hollywood Theatre’s website.
Movie playing at Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97212
Thursday, April 4, 7-9:15pm
“How We Began”, by Lang Leav
