News Item The Library Thanks Kansas City’s AmeriCorps Volunteers for a Job Well Done Monday, March 11, 2024 AmeriCorps Thank our community's volunteers. AmeriCorps Week is March 10-16, 2024.... Read More
News Item Memories of ‘The Wiz,’ and Coming of Age Inspire This Award-Winning Poetry Collection Thursday, February 29, 2024 FYI Book Group Book Discussion Book Group Maya Angelou Book Award Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner.... Read More
News Item 2024 Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Kicks off at the Library for Annual MLK Day of Service Thursday, November 30, 2023 AmeriCorps For the fifth year, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting donations of travel-sized personal care items for a hygien... Read More
News Item Byas Wins Maya Angelou Book Award for Her Debut Poetry Collection, 'I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times' Friday, October 6, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award Taylor Byas is the winner of the third annual Maya Angelou Book Award for her debut poetry collection I... Read More
News Item Library, Universities Name Finalists for Maya Angelou Book Award Thursday, August 24, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award The Maya Angelou Book Award reading committee has selected five finalists for the third annual national award, which is presented by... Read More
News Item Impact of Library’s Annual Hygiene Product Drive: Help to an Estimated 1,500 People Wednesday, January 18, 2023 AmeriCorps Thanks, Kansas City, for stepping up. You responded in record numbers to the annual MLK Day of Service Hygiene Kit Drive conducted by... Read More
News Item Four Finalists Announced for Second Maya Angelou Book Award Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award The Maya Angelou Book Award reading committee has selected four finalists for the second annual award, which is presented by the Kansas City Public... Read More
News Item Library, Universities Open Submissions for Second Year of Maya Angelou Book Award Tuesday, February 8, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Writers for Readers 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... Read More
News Item Yemeni American Poet Threa Almontaser Wins First Maya Angelou Book Award Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Writers for Readers Maya Angelou Book Award The Kansas City Public Library and the University of Missouri-Kansas City named poet Threa Almontaser as the winner of the first annu... Read More