The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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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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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Have a delightfully wicked Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightfully fun films, and other creepily c...
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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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Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Library and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation present a series of online community conversations centered around the book...
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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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Thursday, July 22, 2021
The Library and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation present a series of online community conversations centered around the book Pushout:...
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Monday, June 14, 2021
The Library’s annual summer skyline film series returns with a fresh lineup of FREE outdoor movies! This year we’re shifting our location to the to...
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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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Friday, May 28, 2021
Rebecca Solnit is, in her words, “a person who lives by books, in books, for books, who makes books, who searches for the words, stories, meanings,...