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Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
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Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...
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Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast. Unl...
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Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses...
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Five days before the country immerses in Super Bowl LVI, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein examines the mixed legacy of racia...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman...
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Poet Threa Almontaser won the 2021 Maya Angelou Book Award for her collection The Wild Fo...
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Julie Vick, the author of Babies Don’t Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?), moderates a discussion by a panel of accomplished writers who push back aga...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Poet Elise Paschen (Osage) moderates a panel discussion and reading of Indigenous Nations Poets Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe), Jake Skeets (Diné), and Kimb...
Signature Event
Friday, March 8, 2024
7:00pm
Online
In Person
As part of the Library’s sesquicentennial celebration, decorated author Jacqueline Woodson joins in a public conversation about her life and career, t...