Patrick Lyra is the LGBTQ+ Senior Programs Manager at Pacific Pride Foundation. They are also a poet, public library advocate, and voracious reader. We talk about how public libraries are safe places that empower young minds, and celebrate SBPL’s partnership with Pacific Pride’s Youth Program.
Patrick Lyra is the LGBTQ+ Senior Programs Manager at Pacific Pride Foundation. They are also a poet, public library advocate, and voracious reader. We talk about how public libraries are safe places that empower young minds, and celebrate SBPL’s partnership with Pacific Pride’s Youth Program.
Patrick Lyra chats openly about their creative process, getting through COVID-19 with N. K. Jemisin, tarot, binge-watching Grey’s Anatomy, and the pleasures of acclimating to their new feline housemate, Sister Fiona Jane.
Santa Barbara Public Library: sbplibrary.org
To learn more about Pacific Pride Foundation visit: pacificpridefoundation.org
Books mentioned:
Amazing Graceby Mary Hoffman ; illustrated by Caroline Binch
I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings ; pictures by Shelagh McNicholas
The city we became by N.K. Jemisin
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
All souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
Made in Detroit by Marge Piercy