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Big Read Kickoff: A Community Celebration

Series: Big Read

The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide Big Read 2022, a six-week initiative revolving around U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s acclaimed poetry collection An American Sunrise.  

Haskell’s Manny King (Northern Cheyenne) emcees the event, which will includes Native drummers, singers, and dancers. A Muscogee Nation representative will give the welcome address, and a tribal leader will bless the event to kick off the Big Read. 

Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, who was born and still lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate and only the second laureate appointed to a third term. The author of nine books of poetry and two children’s books, she has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received, among other honors, the PEN USA Literary Award, two NEA Fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She appears at a Library event on April 14.  

Copies of An American Sunrise are available for free at the kickoff celebration. The Big Read runs through mid-May, offering speaking presentations, film screenings, and group discussions of Harjo’s book across the Library system and the Kansas City area.


Explore Big Read 2022 at kclibrary.org/bigread.

Big Read 2022

 
Upcoming in this series:
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Adults
Gracie Caggiano in Concert
Central Library |
April 27 |
2:00pm
Adults
'Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution' Film Screenin...
North-East Branch |
April 29 |
5:30pm
Adults
Ruiz Readers Book Group
Irene H. Ruiz Branch |
May 1 |
6:00pm
1
May
Shelf Life: A Big Read Storytelling Event
Plaza Branch |
6:30pm
Watch or Listen to Past Events in this Series:
Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:30pm
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era firsthand and those n...
9
Nov
Hal Holbrook Tonight
Central Library |
6:30pm
12
Oct
The Things They Carried
Plaza Branch |
6:30pm
25
May
The Heart Is a Fist: Artists Roundtable Discussion
Central Library |
6:00pm
28
Apr
Indigenous Cinema Now: Native American and First N...
Central Library |
6:00pm

Big Read Kickoff: A Community Celebration

Series: Big Read
Date & Location
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In Person
Details
Adults