Past Events

Join us for a special reading for young people with Janet Wong.

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In December, we will read and discuss Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove. Registration is required for this...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this last session of Forms & Features in 2021, we reflect on the past year...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this installation of our series on process, we focus on revision philosophies and practices....

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on rhyme, a correspondence of sound that Rilke called the...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, we will read and discuss Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody. Registration is required for this event, and...

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “Writing Language, Writing Sound: Poetry, Music, and Performance,” created and led by Jake Sorgen.  In this session, participants will read,...

What are we rooted in? What can we imagine? Come ready to open the doors of your imagination for your dreams to touch where no one has yet reached. Renowned...

Join us for a special reading for young people with Jillian Tamaki.

Join us for a live virtual reading with Natasha Mijares, Henry Feller, Jason Vasser-Elong, and Roderick James Jr.

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we focus on poems composed by more than one person. The group...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we continue our discussion of the line, an organizing feature that shapes...

All are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In October, we will read and discuss Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith, recipient of the 2021 Ruth Lilly...

Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we read and discuss poems inhabited by monsters in both topic and...

Join us virtually for the Pegasus Awards, the Poetry Foundation’s annual celebration of poets.

Join us for a live virtual reading with Matt Bodett, Amanda Goldblatt, Isaías Rogel, and Ricardo Mondragon. The Open Door series presents work from new and emerging poets and highlights...

All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop led by Maggie Queeney. In this session, we explore the line, an organizing feature that shapes a poem’s sound...

Join us for a special reading for young people with Kwame Alexander.