All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
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Monday, June 7, 2021
Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in the Un...
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Monday, April 19, 2021
The latest pick of the Library's FYI Book Group, in partnership with the Kansas City Star, is Hanif Abdurraqib...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Passionate about pentameter? Really into rhyme and rhythm? Are you a stanza stan? The Library can help you get well-versed during Nation...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library partners with The Kansas City Star on the latest FYI Book Group discussion: Sarah Smars...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Nothing comes between readers and their books. Not even a pandemic. “One of the first things the Library did after closing our physical locations in r...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The Veterans Writing Workshop is designed to help veterans, active military, and their family members develop writing and narrative skills that can em...
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Monday, December 30, 2019
With the beginning of a new year comes the renewed commitment to shake up our usual routines. We tell ourselves we’re going to learn a new skill, take...
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
It’s fall, y’all, and the Library is kicking off the Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of haunted local history tales, scary story recom...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
The Veterans Writing Workshop is designed to help veterans, active military, and their family members develop writing and narrative s...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Is reading about art like dancing about architecture? If an artist sits in a vacant gallery, is it art? If an author writes a novel with a real...