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Una Voz por la Paz, Concordia y Armonía: XV Festival Internacional de Poesía en Filadelfia (Salón virtual)
Thu, May 6, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Una voz por la paz, la concordia y la armonía, el XV Festival Internacional de Poesía en Filadelfia congregará poetas de América Latina y Los Estados Unidos en un atardecer de verso y música. Cada poeta leerá un poema y al final de cada ronda…
VIRTUAL Friday Reads Book Talk with Miss Mary
Fri, May 7, 2021
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Looking for your next middle grade read? Check out these short book talk videos with Miss Mary talking about her new favorite books! Then use your library card to place a hold at freelibrary.org. Facebook; ParkwayCentralChildrens Instagram: @freelibraryccd Twitter: @ParkwayCCD
Virtual First Chapter Friday
Fri, May 7, 2021
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Looking for your next read? CCD librarians will read the first chapter of a book they really enjoy! Be sure to then place your hold so you can read them too! (The videos will be posted to Facebook.) This program is intended for our friends 12 and under. Instagram: @freelibraryccd…
VIRTUAL - Caleb Azumah Nelson | Open Water
Thu, May 13, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Megha Majumdar, bestselling author of A Burning British–-Ghanaian writer Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel Open Water is, “an intense, elegant” ( Guardian ) tale of two young Black British artists who find love as they struggle to…
Virtual First Chapter Friday
Fri, May 14, 2021
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Looking for your next read? CCD librarians will read the first chapter of a book they really enjoy! Be sure to then place your hold so you can read them too! (The videos will be posted to Facebook.) This program is intended for our friends 12 and under. Instagram: @freelibraryccd…
VIRTUAL - Tracy K. Smith, Gregory Pardlo and Joshua Bennett | There’s A Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
Wed, May 19, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation Trapeta Mayson, Philadelphia Poet Laureate A reflection of the heartrending turmoils of racial injustice and brutality against Black Americans amidst the fear and uncertainty of a pandemic, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love is a kaleidoscopic…
VIRTUAL Friday Reads Book Talk with Miss Mary
Fri, May 21, 2021
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Looking for your next middle grade read? Check out these short book talk videos with Miss Mary talking about her new favorite books! Then use your library card to place a hold at freelibrary.org. Facebook; ParkwayCentralChildrens Instagram: @freelibraryccd Twitter: @ParkwayCCD
Virtual First Chapter Friday
Fri, May 21, 2021
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Looking for your next read? CCD librarians will read the first chapter of a book they really enjoy! Be sure to then place your hold so you can read them too! (The videos will be posted to Facebook.) This program is intended for our friends 12 and under. Instagram: @freelibraryccd…
VIRTUAL - Kaitlyn Greenidge | Libertie
Mon, May 24, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Salamishah Tillet, the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing and author of In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman , a…
Virtual First Chapter Friday
Fri, May 28, 2021
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Looking for your next read? CCD librarians will read the first chapter of a book they really enjoy! Be sure to then place your hold so you can read them too! (The videos will be posted to Facebook.) This program is intended for our friends 12 and under. Instagram: @freelibraryccd…
VIRTUAL - Maggie O’Farrell | Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague
Thu, June 3, 2021
5:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March , Caleb's Crossing and People of the Book With a “gift for combining intricate, engrossing plots with full-bodied characterizations” ( Washington Post ), Irish–British novelist…
VIRTUAL - Kiese Laymon | Long Division
Tue, June 8, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Imani Perry Kiese Laymon’s Heavy , a coming-of-age memoir that begins in Jackson, Mississippi, was named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times , NPR, and the Washington Post , among other media outlets. The Hubert McAlexander…