Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Wichita, 1962. I read Tom Swift and Hardy Boys books in bed with my Boy Scout flashlight. It was after the parents’ call for “lights out” an...

  Courtesy the Denver Public Library by way of a librarian/propagandist/writer  from Wyoming. The downtown DPL was the first library my pare...

When I moved from Florida to Denver in 1978, I wandered down to the local bookstore and bought “Centennial” by James Michener. It was publis...

In several Wyoming communities, including Casper, Gillette, Lander and Sheridan, some members of the public have turned typically staid scho...

I’m having a hard time deciding which books to keep and which ones to give away. Why this comprehensive shelf-cleaning now? Is it time for t...

The American Library Association wrapped up Banned Books Week and now there are no banned books in the land. Wishful thinking. Know Not...

Chris and Annie decided to round-up boxes of books in the basement and bring them upstairs to me. Disability prevents me from diving into th...

A university professor complained on Facebook that her upper division literature students don't know the name Gerard Manley Hopkins. Nev...

The Laramie County Public Library presents another program that's part of "The Way We Worked" exhibit. This family-oriented p...

"The Way We Worked" exhibit is up and running at the Laramie County Public Library. This Smithsonian-sponsored traveling exhibit f...

The Laramie County Public Library kicks off the fall with the Smithsonian exhibit, "The Way We Worked." Sponsored here by Wyoming...

For my first Oct. 8 post about the Literary Connection, go to  https://hummingbirdminds.blogspot.com/2017/10/we-ask-old-question-why-do-writ...

When we speak about books, we often speak in the singular case: the writer's vision, the poet's voice. We talk very little of writin...

Novelist Margaret Coel will be replacing Lynne Cheney as the featured speaker at the Booklovers' Bash on Oct. 20 in Cheyenne. The even...

From "Liberty Walking" by Sue Sommers Studio Wyoming Review is in the Extras section of Wyofile, Wyoming's online publicat...

What do I keep? What do I recycle? What do I throw away? The questions of spring cleaning. Over the weekend, I vowed to clean up my writ...

A writer, dead for 400 years, caused me to miss the first half of the Denver Broncos season opener. I know, where are my priorities? Willi...

Plan to attend the Booklovers’ Bash, the primary annual fund-raiser for the Laramie County Library Foundation, on Friday, October 24, 6 ...

Banned Books Week, Sept. 22-28: Hangouts on Air:  Check out the awesome Hangout on Air schedule we have planned for Banned Books Week . F...

This announcement comes from writer and Wyoming Tribune-Eagle columnist Edith Cook : We are showing the film  Chasing Ice  at the Larami...