Tagged Literature
Join The Rosenbach for a Marathon Reading of Moby-Dick!
If you’ve ever joined our friends at The Rosenbach for Bloomsday , you know how fun (and slightly surreal) it can be to hear a book read aloud over an extended period of time. Well, the next Bloomsday may be several months off…
An American Author in Paris
"For two centuries," writes The New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik in the preface of his 2004 collection Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology , "Paris has been attached for Americans to an idea of happiness, of good…
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is Go Tell it on the Mountain , by…
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is Trevor Noah: Born a Crime…
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is An American Marriage , by…
Shakespeare in the World Lecture Series: Shakespeare and the Law
Lecture will be held in Room 405. It's often said that people "bargain in the shadow of the law." But they also write in that same legal shadow. Shakespeare's plays are enriched by the legal culture in…
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is Stay With Me , by Ayobami…
Valentine’s Day Open Mic Poetry Readings
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” From Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes, and more, we’re celebrating the greatest love poets from around the world on the most romantic…
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is Becoming Ms. Burton: from…
Shakespeare in the World Lecture Series: Shakespeare and Love
Lecture will be held in Room 405. “What is love?” Feste sings in Twelfth Night. It is a question that Shakespeare keeps coming back to in his plays and poems. Where does love come from? How does one fall in love? Why do we…
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is The Sisterhood of Blackberry…
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is Salvage the Bones , by Jesmyn…
2nd Monday Writers Group
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…
The Poets of the First World War - A Reading
Join us for a commemoration of the centennial of the armistice that ended the Great War. A selection of local poets will present some of the most powerful poems of the "War to End All Wars". Parkway Central Library…
Monday Poets| Raquel Salas Rivera & Wes Matthews
WES MATTHEWS was born in Detroit and began writing poetry at age 10. He is a two-time Brave New Voices competitor, a 2016 TEDx speaker, and winner of the 2018 Philly Slam League All-Star Poetry Slam. His work can be found in Detroit…
Margaret George | The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero with Madeline Miller | Circe
Margaret George ’s fictional biographies of towering world figures—brimming “with lust, violence, cruelty and lively conversation” ( Detroit Free Press ) while adhering as closely as possible to the factual…
Jeff Tweedy | Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
Auditorium Sold Out! In-house Simulcast Tickets Available. Jeff Tweedy is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Grammy Award-winning rock band Wilco, declared “one of the most respected bands on the planet”…
Daniel Torday | Boomer1 with Nana Kwamei Adjei-Brenyah | Friday Black: Stories
Exploring the nature of family and loss through the derring-do of a Czechoslovakian war hero, Daniel Torday ’s novel The Last Flight of Poxl West won the National Jewish Book Award, as did his debut novella The…
2nd Monday Writers Group
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…
Achieving Immortality Series – Four Great Poets and the Cultures that Shaped Them
Who Was Dante? A special Veteran’s Day presentation by distinguished poet and Princenton University Professor Susan Stewart . The fourth and final lecture in the series! 4th Floor Skyline Room
Adult Book Club
Do love reading and talking about what you are reading? Join us on the 2nd Friday of the month for our book club - we'll be meeting from 10:30 a.m. until noon. This month's selection is The Last Black Unicorn , by…
Shakespeare in the World Lecture Series: Shakespeare and Honor
Lecture will be held in Room 108. Variations of the word “honor” appear more than nine hundred times in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, but honor was a complex concept during the period, related to fame, family, rank,…
Poetry in Translation
Take pleasure in reading poets from other languages and cultures.
Poetry - Novels in Verse
Poetry with special appeal for tweens and teens.
Poetry - Great Contemporary Poetry
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