Blackout Poetry Contest!

The Dudley Township Library invites you to get creative with blackout poetry! Pick up a discarded book from the library, select any one page, and craft a unique poem or story by blacking out words—leaving only the ones that shape your vision.

Deadline to Submit: April 30th

Drop Off: Dudley Township Library

Public Voting: May 1st – May 31st

Prize for the Winner!

Rules:

Attach your name to the back of your entry.

Multiple entries per person are welcome!

Keep it clean! Poems should be Rated G and suitable for all ages.

All submitted poetry will be displayed at the library throughout May, where visitors will vote for their favorite. Get creative, have fun, and let the blackout magic begin!

For more info, visit the library or contact us!

Mark your calendars and reserve your spots early for this fun Easter painting! Join us for a Sip and Paint party at Sacred Grounds Coffee & Nutrition with Lynnies Nest by Erica Nordling, Hugoton, KS. $35 class fee includes an 11×14 canvas and all painting supplies. Coffee Shop refreshments will be available for purchase. Please RSVP early to save a class. We need a minimum of 8 paid students to make the event. Sign up and pay at the library.

School-aged students may join the library crew on Thursday, April 17th for Earth Day clean-up.
We will start and end at the Satanta Community Building at 3:45 and 4:45. Treat to follow for our helpers!

WEE WIGGLER STORY TIME WILL RESUME

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH

FOR THE 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR ON


Wee Wigglers is a fun class for ages lap-sit (with an adult accompanying) to age 5, where youngsters come to play, make crafts, read stories, learn letters, shapes, numbers, and much more.

This free program is offered at the Dudley Township (Satanta) Library every Wednesday morning (unless otherwise posted) from 11 to noon.

“James”
by Percival Everrett

Friday, March 14th @ 10:30am

at Satanta Library

Copies of title available at the library

Past Book Club titles read:

The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Her Mother’s Hope by Francine Rivers
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
The Giver of the Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart
Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
Things I Wish I Told My Mother by  Susan Patterson, James Patterson
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dungoni
Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Water Keeper by Charles Martin
The Lady’s Mine by Francine Rivers
Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Forgiving Paris by Karen Kingsbury
The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith
Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
The Man from the Train by Bill James
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Saving Charlotte by Pia de Jong
A Single Spark by Judith Miller
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
The First Wife by Erica Spindler
The Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
Educated by Tara Westover
With This Pledge by Tamera Alexander
Who I Am With You by Robin Lee Hatcher
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits by Erma Bombeck
The Unwinding of a Miracle by Julie Yip-Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Masterpiece by Francine Rivers
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Chaperone by Lisa Moriarty
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Becoming Ellen by Shari Shattuck
Invisible Ellen by Shari Shattuck
Where the Wind Leads by Vinh Chung
A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
A Beauty Refined by Tracie Peterson
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
A Silver Suitcase by Terrie Todd
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Life is So Good by George Dawson & Richard Glaubman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
No Other Will Do by Karen Witemeyer
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Rainwater by Sandra Brown
Every Storm by Lori Wick
The Artisan’s Wife by Judith McCoy Miller
Diary of a Waitress by Carolyn Meyer
Under the Overpass by Michael Yankoski
Children of the River by Linda Crew
Guide Me Home by Kim Vogel Sawyer