The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, August 17, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Petra DeWitt examines the suspicions and hostilities faced by Missouri’s sizable German American population during World War I, including qu...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
At 7 in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next 10 hours, some 1,200 German guns showered shel...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The Library launches a series of programs commemorating the centennial of the start of World War I with military historian D.M. Giangreco’s look at 34...
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 6, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
The...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Renowned stage and screen actor Hal Holbrook visits the Kansas City Public Library on Wednesday, November 9, 2011...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Brian Daldorph presents Real Characters: The Writing Lifestyle Depicted in Old School on Wednesd...