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Philly Slam League
Mon, January 27, 2020
3:30 P.M.
Teen Center
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Parkway Central Library
The Free Library hosts the Philly Slam League, a weekly poetry slam competition for teen poets. All are welcome to attend the performances. If your school doesn’t have a team, join ours! The Free Library House Team practices Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 in the Teen Center. Contact…
Poetry Team Practice (Philly Slam League)
Mon, January 27, 2020
3:30 P.M.
Teen Center
at
Parkway Central Library
Don’t have a home team for the poetry slam? Join The Field Teen Center team! The Free Library hosts the Philly Slam League, a weekly poetry slam competition for teen poets. All are welcome to attend the performances. If your school doesn’t have a team, join ours! The Free…
Poetry Team Practice (Philly Slam League)
Mon, January 27, 2020
3:30 P.M.
Teen Center
at
Parkway Central Library
Don’t have a home team for the poetry slam? Join The Field Teen Center team! Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more info. Follow @FLPTeenCenter on Facebook and Instagram.
Melville and Whitman Illustrated
Now through Fri, January 31, 2020
9:00 A.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
Bringing back a selection of books and archival materials from the Art Department's research file collections on artists inspired by the works of the great American novelist and poet celebratting their bicentennial this year. Rockwell Kent, Benton Spruance, Frank Stella, Wharton…
Philly Slam League
Mon, February 3, 2020
3:30 P.M.
Teen Center
at
Parkway Central Library
The Free Library hosts the Philly Slam League, a weekly poetry slam competition for teen poets. All are welcome to attend the performances. If your school doesn’t have a team, join ours! The Free Library House Team practices Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 in the Teen Center. Contact…
Poetry Team Practice (Philly Slam League)
Mon, February 3, 2020
3:30 P.M.
Teen Center
at
Parkway Central Library
Don’t have a home team for the poetry slam? Join The Field Teen Center team! Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more info. Follow @FLPTeenCenter on Facebook and Instagram.
Lunchtime Talk With Trapeta B. Mayson | Poetic Musings on Toni Morrison
Tue, February 4, 2020
12:30 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Through original poems and audience dialogue, 2019–2020 Philadelphia Poet Laureate Trapeta B. Mayson will discuss the of impact of Toni Morrison’s work on African-American women writers and explore the themes of race, class and gender in Morrison’s work. Seating is…
Black History Month Poetry Slam Series
Tue, February 4, 2020
4:00 P.M.
Wynnefield Library
Our poetry slam is a literacy, cultural, and social session for all ages in which the community has the opportunity to read their favorite Pan African works. Refreshments will be served.
Poetry Team Practice (Philly Slam League)
Mon, February 10, 2020
3:30 P.M.
Teen Center
at
Parkway Central Library
Don’t have a home team for the poetry slam? Join The Field Teen Center team! Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more info. Follow @FLPTeenCenter on Facebook and Instagram.
Monday Poets | Octavia McBride-Ahebee & Sekai'afua Zankel
Mon, February 10, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Octavia McBride-Ahebee’s work presents human relationships within the context of global inequality. Her poetry collections include Assuming Voices (2003) , Where My Birthmark Dances (2011) and most recently Praise Song for the Gravediggers (2019). Her work has appeared in The Beloit Poetry…
Black History Month Poetry Slam Series
Tue, February 18, 2020
4:00 P.M.
Wynnefield Library
Our poetry slam is a literacy, cultural, and social session for all ages in which the community has the opportunity to read their favorite Pan African works. Refreshments will be served.
Yolanda Wisher’s Rent Party at The Rosenbach: Black Beats Edition
Thu, February 20, 2020
7:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
The 7th edition of Yolanda Wisher’s Rent Party at The Rosenbach invites you to join a copacetic caravan with the Black Beats – poets of African descent who were part of the Beat poetry movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the…
It’s LIT: Black Poetry
Thu, February 27, 2020
4:00 P.M.
Haddington Library
This LEAP program will feature a group recitation of the Maya Angelou poem "Still I Rise.”
Monday Poets | David Ebenbach & Open Mic
Mon, March 2, 2020
6:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
David Ebenbach is the author of the poetry collections Some Unimaginable Animal (2019), and We Were the People Who Moved (2015). His other books include The Artist’s Torah (2012), a nonfiction guide to creativity, and the novel Miss Portland (2017). He teaches creative writing and…
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 &…
Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem
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…
Voyages by Road and Sea
Now through Sun, August 30, 2020
8:00 A.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Voyages by Road and Sea explores the legacies of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville through contemporary voices and art in Parkway Central Library's West Gallery. Marking the bicentennial years for both Whitman and Melville, Voyages examines the personal and literary journeys of these two…