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Bookends: A Library Newsletter | May 14, 2025 |
“For starters, your soul will get bigger.
Your love, more terrible and luminous.
Soon, you’ll say tender things at parties
after too much champagne. A sidewalk
quince, wet with midnight, will stop
you in your tracks. In time, you’ll
find the perfect metaphor for your
child’s face. All at once, you’ll see
the world and want it again:
clothes flapping on the line,
lilacs strewn and seeding, the luck
of worms. An artichoke with its heart
torn hot and streaming from the throbbing
crown will suddenly turn you on.”
If you ever wonder why this library newsletter always starts off with a poem: it’s for all of these reasons and more (and your opinions about artichokes aside). We do, of course, also have a lot of great poetry in our collection, including new books by: WA State’s new Poet Laureate, Derek Sheffield; Rivers in My Veins by Kara Briggs; and many, many more. Come check them out!
Already have stuff checked out from the library? Most items, including books and Chromebooks, are due back on June 13. Please return or renew them before then!
Read on to learn more about what’s going on in the library, including some great events to close out spring quarter, an opportunity for students to provide feedback, and a spotlight on some new materials in our games collection!
Library Resources & Services at a Glance
Come one, come all! Everyone is invited to attend our favorite quarterly event, the Writers’ Open Mic! Co-presented by the Evergreen Library and The Writing Center, this in-person event will be an entirely open mic with no scheduled performers. Show up early to sign in and perform your poetry, music, storytelling, comedy, performance art, or anything you have written.
This event will take place on Thursday, May 22, from 5-7pm in the Library Underground. All performances welcome!
A portion of the poster highlighting the May 2025 Writers’ Open Mic event.
Informational slide promoting the event, with a drawing by Matt Wuerker from the WPHP Archive.
The Daniel J. Evans Library wants to hear from students! Tell us about your experiences with library outreach, spaces, services, and collections.
Take this survey with an option to enter a prize raffle: https://forms.office.com/r/KHMzeZCHna
The library is ecstatic to continue its support for The Evergreen Theatre Club by offering tickets to their upcoming show, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ with performances on May 28, 30, and 31.
We are giving away 40 tickets total (10 for each show). All you need to do is come in and see us at the library’s circulation desk and let us know how many tickets you’d like and for which show.
Showtimes are:
All shows take place on campus, in the Recital Hall, COM 107.
The library’s supply of tickets is first-come, first-served, and once they are gone, they are gone! If we run out of tickets for the show you’d like to see, you may purchase tickets directly at the door, or ahead of time on the Evergreen Theatre Club website.
Note: May 28 is a ‘pay what you can’ show and so tickets are not available ahead of time online but may be purchased at the door.
Please note that since the library is not open on Saturdays, the last day to come in and get tickets from us will be on Friday, May 30, before 5pm.
A small selection of new games available in the library’s collection.
Interested in learning more about how games can be integrated into the curriculum, or just want to explore some games that touch on interesting topics in a unique way? The library’s collection of board, story, and role-playing games is always growing, especially when we find games that can support teaching, learning, and tackling tough issues! Here is a small sample of the new games that we’ve added to our collections this year.
Molly House: Create joy in a queer community in 1720s London.
It's 1723. You walk through the streets of London, hiding your inner-most desires from the Society of the Reformation of Manners as you head to Mother Clap's. This may look like a coffee shoppe but inside are back rooms where loud festivities, intimate gatherings, and a thriving queer community is growing.
In the early 1900s, the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud established a revolutionary theory called psychoanalysis, related to the study of the unconscious mind. As his work took hold, supporters met at Freud's apartment every Wednesday to discuss psychology and dream symbolism. This group—the Wednesday Psychological Society—marked the beginning of the worldwide psychoanalytic movement. As a member of this society, you aim to formulate new therapeutic techniques, establish a practice, grow your clientele, and become Freud’s most distinguished contemporary. To best accomplish this, you’ll need to share insights, discuss ideas with peers, and publish theories. And to stay invigorated, you’ll likely need some coffee—lots of coffee.
Finspan: Dive into the watery depths to find and observe a vast array of aquatic life.
Now you can take your love of Wingspan underwater! You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aquatic life in the colorful Sunlight Zone, ghostly Twilight Zone, and pitch-black Midnight Zone of the world's seas and oceans. In Finspan, the fish you discover over 4 weeks will generate a series of benefits as you dive deeper into the ocean.
Women are Werewolves: A Nonbinary Storytelling Game
Women are Werewolves is an award-winning story game where players portray nonbinary characters in a family where only the women transform into werewolves. Using a beautiful deck of tarot-sized cards containing roleplaying prompts, players explore their relationships to gendered spaces, family customs, and queer and non-queer family members.
It's the 21st Century, and Catan is at a crossroads. Long gone is the agrarian society of the island's Viking ancestors. Today's Catanians need energy to keep society moving and growing, but pollution is wreaking havoc on the island. You must decide: Invest in clean energy resources, or opt for cheaper fossil fuels, potentially causing disastrous effects for the island?
I, Napoleon: Step into the boots of Napoleon Bonaparte in this solo game!
I, Napoleon is a solitaire historical role-playing card game in which you step into the boots of Captain Buonaparte (as he still was) in the year 1793. Louis XVI has just gone to the guillotine, the brothers Robespierre control the destiny of France, and all Europe has joined French Royalists to take down France, end the Revolution, and restore peace and safety for the hereditary principles that have underlain society for 1,000 years.
As an ambitious but unknown young artillery officer, who speaks French with a Corsican accent, you would seem to be an unlikely agent of destiny. Can you harness a brilliant mind, titanic energies, and a sometimes terrifying charisma to leave your mark on history? Or will you die a minor footnote in the story of France?
Want to learn about other games that broach interesting topics in unique ways? Just want a recommendation for something fun to play? Get in touch and we’ll be happy to help!
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