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CANCELLED - First Monday Writers Group
Mon, April 6, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Oak Lane Library
Are you a writer who needs some motivation and encouragement? We can provide this, as well as technical skills and information that can direct you towards completing tasks for publication and discovery. A great support group no matter what stage of the process you are in,…
CANCELLED - Monday Poets | Nausheen Eusuf & Elizabeth Scanlon
Mon, April 6, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Nausheen Eusuf holds a PhD in English from Boston University and an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. Her poetry has won a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in The American Scholar, PN Review, Southwest Review, Salmagundi, World Literature Today, and Best American Poetry 2018 &…
CANCELLED - Flash Prose Writing Group
Tue, April 7, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Logan Library
Do you like your prose short and sweet? Pithy and punchy? Come share your fiction and non-fiction works in progress (750 words or less) with us. Hone your craft in a safe and supportive environment. All writing levels are welcome. Please plan to attend all four sessions; also…
VIRTUAL - Julia Alvarez | Afterlife
Tue, April 7, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Follow us on Crowdcast to watch our event with Julia Alvarez live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! Help us provide digital content during the closure with your contributions . Named “Woman of the Year” by Latina magazine in…
CANCELLED - Gallery Walk With Voyages by Road and Sea Co-curator Alex Ames
Fri, April 10, 2020
3:00 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Join co-curator Alex Ames for a 45-minute guided tour of the ​Voyages by Road and Sea exhibition.
Virtual Poetry Readings with Ms. Scout!
Sat, April 11, 2020
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Happy National Poetry Month! Every Saturday in April Ms. Scout will be sharing some of her favorite poems and talking about what makes them poetry! Come listen and write some poems of your own! These videos can be found on the social media platform of your choice! Facebook:…
CANCELLED - Hands-on History Presents: Uncovering the Real James Bond at The Free Library of Philadelphia
Sat, April 11, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
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Parkway Central Library
In researching his new book about Philadelphian James Bond, whose identity was stolen by Ian Fleming, author Jim Wright found a goldmine the Free Library's Rare Book Department. In the James and Mary Bond archives there, Wright unearthed all sorts of rare images and documents pertaining to…
CANCELLED - Dalia Sofer | Man of My Time
Thu, April 16, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Dalia Sofer is the author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist The Septembers of Shiraz , a “lyrical and sometimes haunting” ( Miami Herald ) bestselling debut novel about a gem dealer wrongly accused of espionage in the wake of the Iranian revolution. Winner of the PEN/Robert…
Virtual Poetry Readings with Ms. Scout!
Sat, April 18, 2020
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Happy National Poetry Month! Every Saturday in April Ms. Scout will be sharing some of her favorite poems and talking about what makes them poetry! Come listen and write some poems of your own! These videos can be found on the social media platform of your choice! Facebook:…
CANCELLED - Blueprints for Healing: Toni Morrison and the Balm of Black Women Writing led by Yolanda Wisher and Trapeta B. Mayson
Sat, April 18, 2020
2:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
As a novelist, essayist, and author of children’s books, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison (1931-2019) unapologetically wrote the Black experience into a tradition of American letters that often rendered it invisible or caricatured. As a book editor and professor, she nurtured the careers and…
CANCELLED - Flash Prose Writing Group
Tue, April 21, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Logan Library
Do you like your prose short and sweet? Pithy and punchy? Come share your fiction and non-fiction works in progress (750 words or less) with us. Hone your craft in a safe and supportive environment. All writing levels are welcome. Please plan to attend all four sessions; also…
CANCELLED - Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem with Denice Frohman
Tue, April 21, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Natalie Diaz is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec , an “ambitious . . . beautiful” ( New York Times ) American Book Award–winning poetry collection that ruminates on her sibling’s drug addiction. A former professional basketball player, an enrolled member of the…
CANCELLED - Ottessa Moshfegh | Death in Her Hands with Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Fleishman Is in Trouble
Thu, April 23, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Eileen , Ottessa Moshfegh ’s “always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious” ( Washington Post ) novel about a young woman trapped between equally bleak work and home lives, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was shortlisted for the…
CANCELLED - Explore the Whitman Sampler With Artist Kelly McQuain
Fri, April 24, 2020
3:00 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Join Voyages by Road and Sea featured artist Kelly McQuain in the West Gallery for an up-close look at his Whitman Sampler . McQuain will share the origin of this unique sculpture and explain the significance of its hidden parts. McQuain writes this about his artwork: "The Whitman Sampler…
Virtual Poetry Readings with Ms. Scout!
Sat, April 25, 2020
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Happy National Poetry Month! Every Saturday in April Ms. Scout will be sharing some of her favorite poems and talking about what makes them poetry! Come listen and write some poems of your own! These videos can be found on the social media platform of your choice! Facebook:…
CANCELLED - Flash Prose Writing Group
Tue, April 28, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Logan Library
Do you like your prose short and sweet? Pithy and punchy? Come share your fiction and non-fiction works in progress (750 words or less) with us. Hone your craft in a safe and supportive environment. All writing levels are welcome. To sign up, email shortern@freelibrary.org. For…
First Monday Writers Group
Mon, May 4, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Oak Lane Library
Are you a writer who needs some motivation and encouragement? We can provide this, as well as technical skills and information that can direct you towards completing tasks for publication and discovery. A great support group no matter what stage of the process you are in,…
Monday Poets | Eleanor Wilner & Ellen Bass
Mon, May 4, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Join Monday Poets as we celebrate the publication of new books by Ellen Bass and Eleanor Wilner. Eleanor Wilner’s books of poetry include maya (1979), Shekhinah (1984), Sarah’s Choice (1989), Otherwise (1993), Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (1998), The Girl…
CANCELLED - Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt
Tue, May 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
EVENT CANCELLED.
Susan Choi | Trust Exercise with Jacqueline Woodson | Red at the Bone
Thu, May 7, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Susan Choi ’s novels are known for excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their “nuance, psychological…