The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, August 17, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...