The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
During U.S. Media Literacy Week (October 25 – 29, 2021), organizations across the country promote the importance of media literacy ed...
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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, June 17, 2021
Established as a general holiday in 2021, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans on June 19, 1865, following...
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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, January 27, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library is launching the third installment in a continuing series of online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writer...
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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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Wednesday, November 4, 2020
The Kansas City Public Library continues its series of online writing classes developed for beginning and intermediate-level writers interested in dev...