The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
The Kansas City-based Maya Angelou Book Award is open for submissions. Now in its second year, the award aims to honor Angelou’s lega...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library is continuing the second season of its popular online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers interested i...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library and the University of Missouri-Kansas City named poet Threa Almontaser as the winner of the first annu...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library is continuing the second season of its popular online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers interested i...
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Monday, August 9, 2021
Two hundred years ago, on August 10, 1821, Missouri officially became the 24th state. From this year’s Homegrown Stories Summer Reading Prog...
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Monday, July 26, 2021
Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t...
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Friday, June 18, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library’s director of branch operations Cindy Hohl, who is serving her...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Dig into this year's Summer Reading Program with a bounty of HOMEGROWN STORIES that celebrate regional roots and cul...
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Sunday, May 16, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City Parks and Recreation, and Kansas City Public Schools pr...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
The Library's Director of Branch Operations Cindy Hohl joined U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo in an online conversation...