News Item FYI Book Club Spotlights C.J. Janovy’s No Place Like Home and LGBT Advances in Kansas (Yes, Kansas) Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Books Signature Events LGBTQIA+ Book Group Local History Kansas has seen advances in... Read More
News Item FYI Book Group explores relationships with art and people in 'Museum of Modern Love' Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Book Group Readers Services Exhibits 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... Read More
News Item Read and Learn with Pride: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Stories Monday, June 7, 2021 Pride Month Reading Lists Book Group Films Youth and Family Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in the Un... Read More
News Item Commemorating Juneteenth Thursday, June 17, 2021 Juneteenth Reading Lists Book Group Films Youth and Family Black History Established as a general holiday in 2021, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans on June 19, 1865, following... Read More
News Item FYI Book Club: He writes the rhythms of Kansas City and Black experience in ‘Blue Beat Syncopation’ Monday, July 26, 2021 Readers Services Book Group Summer Reading Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t... Read More
News Item How Dolly Parton came to mean so much to Kansan Sarah Smarsh that she wrote this book Tuesday, February 9, 2021 Book Group The Kansas City Public Library partners with The Kansas City Star on the latest FYI Book Group discussion: Sarah Smars... Read More
News Item Remembering Alvin Sykes: A ‘Dogged, Deeply Infused Passion’ Friday, March 19, 2021 In Memoriam A school dropout after eighth grade, Alvin Sykes became a fixture in local libraries and emerged as a self-taught human rights activi... Read More
News Item Feed the Meter: National Poetry Month at the Library Wednesday, April 14, 2021 National Poetry Month Reading Lists Book Group Passionate about pentameter? Really into rhyme and rhythm? Are you a stanza stan? The Library can help you get well-versed during Nation... Read More
News Item The Library Remembers Vartan Gregorian Friday, April 16, 2021 In Memoriam Library News Vartan Gregorian, who died Thursday, April 15, left a towering legacy as a scholar and humanitarian, stretching from his presidencies... Read More
News Item A Little Devil in America: FYI Book Club Selection Is a Rueful Celebration of Black Artistry Monday, April 19, 2021 Book Group Readers Services The latest pick of the Library's FYI Book Group, in partnership with the Kansas City Star, is Hanif Abdurraqib... Read More