The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between loss a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...
Signature Event
Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 5, 2013
2:00pm
This postcard tour of a bygone era offers views of Independence Boulevard (Kansas City’s first boulevard) and the rugged beauty of the city’s only urb...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas largely...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 14, 2013
2:00pm
The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 7, 2013
2:00pm
Taking the old Independence Road through the eastern environs of Kansas City toward Independence, it’s easy to miss some of Kansas City’s richest hist...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6:30pm
Anthony Swofford's new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails, chronicles how in the years after the success...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
6:30pm
Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with K...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...