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Knit/Crochet-a-thon for the Needy
Sat, December 21, 2024
9:00 A.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us in the Art & Lit department on Saturday, as we knit and crochet all day for a good cause! Drop in anytime to make scarves and hats for the Free Library Social Workers to donate to those in need. We will provide simple patterns, knitting needles, crochet hooks, and some…
Poe-sers: Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe
Sat, January 18, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Literature Department
at
Parkway Central Library
The Literature Department in celebrating Edgar Allen Poe's birthday with a performace of Susan DiPronio 's “Poe-sers”. “Poe-sers” is an autobiographical performance piece. The stories of four personas: child, teenager, woman and The Raven - the one…
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell
Thu, January 23, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Literature Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell have been friends in poetry for over twenty-five years, sharing manuscripts, and working together to coordinate events at Swarthmore (where Anderson directed the program in Creative Writing before her recent retirement) and at Villanova (where Sewell…
The Literature Department presents: Louis Parascandola - A Black Philadelphia Reader
Sat, February 1, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Literature Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Louis J. Parascandola is a Professor of Humanities at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He has published several books on Black authors including Eric Walrond, Gwendolyn Bennett, J. A. Rogers, and Amy Jacques Garvey. He is currently working on two projects, one a collection of the writings of…
Monday Poets 30th Anniversary Season: Lawrence Dugan and Gabriel Ramirez
Mon, April 21, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Literature Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Literature Department in celebrating the 30th Anniversary season of Monday Poets. This year’s theme is Sankofa (SAHN-koh-fah), a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana which loosely implies that to move forward, one must “go back and get…