Join acclaimed poets Allison Adair and Tiana Clark who will read from their prize-winning debut collections and talk about the development of the poems in these books.
Allison Adair’s debut collection, The Clearing, selected by Henri Cole for Milkweed’s Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, was named a New York Times "New and Noteworthy" book. From the midst of the Civil War to our current era, Adair charts fairy tales that are painfully familiar, never forgetting that violence is often accompanied by tenderness. Described by Cole as “haunting and dirt caked,” her unromantic poems of girlhood, nature, and family linger with an uncommon, unsettling resonance. Adair’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, Waxwing, and ZYZZYVA; and have been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in the Mid-American Review Fineline Competition. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Adair lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.
Tiana Clark’s debut full-length poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) is winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In these poems Clark dives into personal and public history, mythology, her own ancestry, to see the braided trauma of the broken past and its continued effects on black lives. Clark is also the author of Equilibrium (Bull City Press), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and a Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review,The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.
This Series is sponsored by Friends of the Concord Free Public Library in MA.
Join acclaimed poets Allison Adair and Tiana Clark who will read from their prize-winning debut collections and talk about the development of the poems in these books.
Allison Adair’s debut collection, The Clearing, selected by Henri Cole for Milkweed’s Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, was named a New York Times "New and Noteworthy" book. From the midst of the Civil War to our current era, Adair charts fairy tales that are painfully familiar, never forgetting that violence is often accompanied by tenderness. Described by Cole as “haunting and dirt caked,” her unromantic poems of girlhood, nature, and family linger with an uncommon, unsettling resonance. Adair’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, Waxwing, and ZYZZYVA; and have been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in the Mid-American Review Fineline Competition. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Adair lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.
Tiana Clark’s debut full-length poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) is winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In these poems Clark dives into personal and public history, mythology, her own ancestry, to see the braided trauma of the broken past and its continued effects on black lives. Clark is also the author of Equilibrium (Bull City Press), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and a Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review,The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.
This Series is sponsored by Friends of the Concord Free Public Library in MA.
These readings will be posted on Facebook Premiere at 10am, and on Instagram.
The readings will also be available at: https://concordlibrary.org/kids/101-picture-books-cfpl-loves
101 Picture Books Concord Free Public Library Loves! is an early literacy program to build reading skills for newborns, infants, toddlers and preschoolers and to encourage parent and child bonding through reading. All children ages birth to 5 years can participate in this year-round program.
The Library has curated a list of 100 critically acclaimed, recently published picture books, many of which focus on themes of inclusion, diversity and kindness. Children are encouraged to read all 100 books before kindergarten. The 101st book is up to the child’s choice! Every time a young reader reads 33 titles and finishes a coloring sheet, they win a book prize. When a reader completes 101 books, the Library celebrates their progress by entering them into a raffle and awarding them a very special surprise!
These readings will be posted on Facebook Premiere at 10am, and on Instagram.
The readings will also be available at: https://concordlibrary.org/kids/101-picture-books-cfpl-loves
101 Picture Books Concord Free Public Library Loves! is an early literacy program to build reading skills for newborns, infants, toddlers and preschoolers and to encourage parent and child bonding through reading. All children ages birth to 5 years can participate in this year-round program.
The Library has curated a list of 100 critically acclaimed, recently published picture books, many of which focus on themes of inclusion, diversity and kindness. Children are encouraged to read all 100 books before kindergarten. The 101st book is up to the child’s choice! Every time a young reader reads 33 titles and finishes a coloring sheet, they win a book prize. When a reader completes 101 books, the Library celebrates their progress by entering them into a raffle and awarding them a very special surprise!
Hear stories, songs, and rhymes in this gentle half hour story time for our very youngest readers.
Hear stories, songs, and rhymes in this gentle half hour story time for our very youngest readers.
Have a computer or eBook related question? Please sign up for a Virtual Drop-In Tech Help Zoom session and speak with a staff member!
Register below for the Zoom link.
Have a computer or eBook related question? Please sign up for a Virtual Drop-In Tech Help Zoom session and speak with a staff member!
Register below for the Zoom link.
Get a jumpstart on bedtime with stories, songs, and rhymes! Register to receive the zoom link.
Get a jumpstart on bedtime with stories, songs, and rhymes! Register to receive the zoom link.
Join author Pamela Painter for a discussion of her short story collection Fabrications on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:00 p.m. Pamela Painter is the author of five story collections, Getting to Know the Weather, which won the Great Lakes College Award Award for First Fiction, The Long and Short of It, Wouldn’t You Like to Know, Ways to Spend the Night, and her newest collection Fabrications: New and Selected Stories published in Fall 2020.
She is also the co-author with Anne Bernays of the widely-used textbook, What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, which has included the work of over 150 Emerson students. She was also a founding editor of StoryQuarterly, now housed at Rutgers, and she is a Founding Donor of the Flash Fiction Archive, at the Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Painter’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Five Points, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, Matter Press, New Flash Fiction Review, Ploughshares and SmokeLong Quarterly, among others and in numerous anthologies, such as Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, From Blues to Bop: A Collection of Jazz Fiction, Four Minute Fictions, Flash Fiction Forward, MicroFiction, Nothing Short of 100, and New Micro.
Beginning in the late 80s, Painter was perhaps the first writer to teach workshops entirely devoted to the short short story at Emerson College in Boston. Many of her students have published stories, won flash fiction awards and become publishers themselves of flash fiction.
Painter has received grants from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review’s John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter’s stories have been presented on National Public Radio, and on stage by Stage Turner, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, and in Los Angeles, New York City and London by Cedering Fox’s Word Theatre Company. Her stories also appear on well-known artist Anthony Russo’s YouTube channel CRONOGO.
Please register below for the Zoom link.
Join author Pamela Painter for a discussion of her short story collection Fabrications on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:00 p.m. Pamela Painter is the author of five story collections, Getting to Know the Weather, which won the Great Lakes College Award Award for First Fiction, The Long and Short of It, Wouldn’t You Like to Know, Ways to Spend the Night, and her newest collection Fabrications: New and Selected Stories published in Fall 2020.
She is also the co-author with Anne Bernays of the widely-used textbook, What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, which has included the work of over 150 Emerson students. She was also a founding editor of StoryQuarterly, now housed at Rutgers, and she is a Founding Donor of the Flash Fiction Archive, at the Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Painter’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Five Points, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, Matter Press, New Flash Fiction Review, Ploughshares and SmokeLong Quarterly, among others and in numerous anthologies, such as Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, From Blues to Bop: A Collection of Jazz Fiction, Four Minute Fictions, Flash Fiction Forward, MicroFiction, Nothing Short of 100, and New Micro.
Beginning in the late 80s, Painter was perhaps the first writer to teach workshops entirely devoted to the short short story at Emerson College in Boston. Many of her students have published stories, won flash fiction awards and become publishers themselves of flash fiction.
Painter has received grants from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review’s John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter’s stories have been presented on National Public Radio, and on stage by Stage Turner, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, and in Los Angeles, New York City and London by Cedering Fox’s Word Theatre Company. Her stories also appear on well-known artist Anthony Russo’s YouTube channel CRONOGO.
Please register below for the Zoom link.
Join us on Zoom for some short stories, songs, & rhymes!Join us on Zoom for some short stories, songs, & rhymes!
Welcome to the VIRTUAL WRITING STUDIO
Open to individuals grades 3-8, or older or younger, based on request.
Join resident poet and Children's Library Assistant Cary Stough for a writing-themed mid-day break.
Collaborative poems, hilarious and engaging POWERPOINT presentations, etc.
No writing experience required.
Register for Zoom link!
Welcome to the VIRTUAL WRITING STUDIO
Open to individuals grades 3-8, or older or younger, based on request.
Join resident poet and Children's Library Assistant Cary Stough for a writing-themed mid-day break.
Collaborative poems, hilarious and engaging POWERPOINT presentations, etc.
No writing experience required.
Register for Zoom link!
Registration is filled. Sorry -- we cannot accept any more girls at this point.Girls Who Code (GWC) is a non-profit organization that encourages more girls to close the gender gap in the computer science field.
Girls in grades 6-12 will learn to code along with other beginners in an open and accepting environment. Learn to code animations, games, and websites.
Girls Who Code Club is a 2-hour, weekly commitment from October through May. Started in 2012 with the single mission to close the gender gap in technology, Girls Who Code is a national program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare girls with computing and problem solving skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Please register to receive the Zoom link.
Registration is filled. Sorry -- we cannot accept any more girls at this point.Girls Who Code (GWC) is a non-profit organization that encourages more girls to close the gender gap in the computer science field.
Girls in grades 6-12 will learn to code along with other beginners in an open and accepting environment. Learn to code animations, games, and websites.
Girls Who Code Club is a 2-hour, weekly commitment from October through May. Started in 2012 with the single mission to close the gender gap in technology, Girls Who Code is a national program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare girls with computing and problem solving skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Please register to receive the Zoom link.
Join Randall Warniers for a discussion of the movie The Farewell (2019) on Wednesday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. Actress Awkwafina won a Golden Globe for her performance in this heartfelt comedy about family dynamics in Changchun, China.
Please watch The Farewell on Kanopy before the discussion.
To register for the discussion and receive a Zoom link, send an email to randall.warniers@gmail.com.
This discussion is sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
Join Randall Warniers for a discussion of the movie The Farewell (2019) on Wednesday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. Actress Awkwafina won a Golden Globe for her performance in this heartfelt comedy about family dynamics in Changchun, China.
Please watch The Farewell on Kanopy before the discussion.
To register for the discussion and receive a Zoom link, send an email to randall.warniers@gmail.com.
This discussion is sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
Join Branch Librarian Dorrie for stories, songs, and rhymes. Please register to receive the Zoom link. The same link will work weekly.
Join Branch Librarian Dorrie for stories, songs, and rhymes. Please register to receive the Zoom link. The same link will work weekly.
Join us for an evening of theft, mystery, and detection. Register to receive the Zoom link and further instruction. Registration closes two days before the event.
Sponsored by the Friends of Concord Free Public Library
"While We Were Sleeping." When spring comes to the Middlesex Fells and the animal community comes out of hibernation, they find that someone has stolen Mr. Badger's store of acorns right out of his cellar. The animals of the Fells know who to call: Patrice the Parrot has lived in Oscar Oslo's office at the Prospect Tower Detective Agency for years, listening as investigations take place and learning all the skills of a professional detective. Patrice flies over to the Fells and gathers the animals together to figure out who could've taken all of Badger's acorns.
Join us for an evening of theft, mystery, and detection. Register to receive the Zoom link and further instruction. Registration closes two days before the event.
Sponsored by the Friends of Concord Free Public Library
"While We Were Sleeping." When spring comes to the Middlesex Fells and the animal community comes out of hibernation, they find that someone has stolen Mr. Badger's store of acorns right out of his cellar. The animals of the Fells know who to call: Patrice the Parrot has lived in Oscar Oslo's office at the Prospect Tower Detective Agency for years, listening as investigations take place and learning all the skills of a professional detective. Patrice flies over to the Fells and gathers the animals together to figure out who could've taken all of Badger's acorns.
Join Royce and Cary for a monthly puppet show via Zoom! We'll have songs, stories...as well as general puppet-y silliness. Stay tuned for puppet take-and-make crafts. Register today and receive the Zoom link for all subsequent programs.
Join Royce and Cary for a monthly puppet show via Zoom! We'll have songs, stories...as well as general puppet-y silliness. Stay tuned for puppet take-and-make crafts. Register today and receive the Zoom link for all subsequent programs.
Pick up a free craft kit at curbside pick up, and join us on Zoom. We'll do the craft together and enjoy a story.
Register and we'll share with you the Zoom link.
New kits available at the start of each week, while supplies last.
Pick up a free craft kit at curbside pick up, and join us on Zoom. We'll do the craft together and enjoy a story.
Register and we'll share with you the Zoom link.
New kits available at the start of each week, while supplies last.
Join friends, impostors, and the like over Zoom, and play the very popular, freely downloadable game Among Us. Ages 10-14. Register to receive the Zoom link (the same link will work weekly).
Join friends, impostors, and the like over Zoom, and play the very popular, freely downloadable game Among Us. Ages 10-14. Register to receive the Zoom link (the same link will work weekly).
These readings will be posted on Facebook Premiere at 10am, and on Instagram.
The readings will also be available at: https://concordlibrary.org/kids/101-picture-books-cfpl-loves
101 Picture Books Concord Free Public Library Loves! is an early literacy program to build reading skills for newborns, infants, toddlers and preschoolers and to encourage parent and child bonding through reading. All children ages birth to 5 years can participate in this year-round program.
The Library has curated a list of 100 critically acclaimed, recently published picture books, many of which focus on themes of inclusion, diversity and kindness. Children are encouraged to read all 100 books before kindergarten. The 101st book is up to the child’s choice! Every time a young reader reads 33 titles and finishes a coloring sheet, they win a book prize. When a reader completes 101 books, the Library celebrates their progress by entering them into a raffle and awarding them a very special surprise!
These readings will be posted on Facebook Premiere at 10am, and on Instagram.
The readings will also be available at: https://concordlibrary.org/kids/101-picture-books-cfpl-loves
101 Picture Books Concord Free Public Library Loves! is an early literacy program to build reading skills for newborns, infants, toddlers and preschoolers and to encourage parent and child bonding through reading. All children ages birth to 5 years can participate in this year-round program.
The Library has curated a list of 100 critically acclaimed, recently published picture books, many of which focus on themes of inclusion, diversity and kindness. Children are encouraged to read all 100 books before kindergarten. The 101st book is up to the child’s choice! Every time a young reader reads 33 titles and finishes a coloring sheet, they win a book prize. When a reader completes 101 books, the Library celebrates their progress by entering them into a raffle and awarding them a very special surprise!
Hear stories, songs, and rhymes in this gentle half hour story time for our very youngest readers.
Hear stories, songs, and rhymes in this gentle half hour story time for our very youngest readers.
Have a computer or eBook related question? Please sign up for a Virtual Drop-In Tech Help Zoom session and speak with a staff member!
Register below for the Zoom link.
Have a computer or eBook related question? Please sign up for a Virtual Drop-In Tech Help Zoom session and speak with a staff member!
Register below for the Zoom link.
Get a jumpstart on bedtime with stories, songs, and rhymes! Register to receive the zoom link.
Get a jumpstart on bedtime with stories, songs, and rhymes! Register to receive the zoom link.
Wellness coach Julie Manning will lead kids in a microwave cooking class and teach you to make a delicious ham & cheese omelettes!
Kids of all ages are welcome, but younger children will need a grown-up's assistance.
The virtual cooking program will be held on Zoom. Ingredient list will be shared with all participants before the program.
This cooking program happens on the last Tuesday of each month at 5 pm. Sign up for any or all workshops!
Sponsored by The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library - thank you, Friends!
Wellness coach Julie Manning will lead kids in a microwave cooking class and teach you to make a delicious ham & cheese omelettes!
Kids of all ages are welcome, but younger children will need a grown-up's assistance.
The virtual cooking program will be held on Zoom. Ingredient list will be shared with all participants before the program.
This cooking program happens on the last Tuesday of each month at 5 pm. Sign up for any or all workshops!
Sponsored by The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library - thank you, Friends!
Registration is filled. Sorry -- we cannot accept any more girls at this point.Girls Who Code (GWC) is a non-profit organization that encourages more girls to close the gender gap in the computer science field.
Girls in grades 6-12 will learn to code along with other beginners in an open and accepting environment. Learn to code animations, games, and websites.
Girls Who Code Club is a 2-hour, weekly commitment from October through May. Started in 2012 with the single mission to close the gender gap in technology, Girls Who Code is a national program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare girls with computing and problem solving skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Please register to receive the Zoom link.
Registration is filled. Sorry -- we cannot accept any more girls at this point.Girls Who Code (GWC) is a non-profit organization that encourages more girls to close the gender gap in the computer science field.
Girls in grades 6-12 will learn to code along with other beginners in an open and accepting environment. Learn to code animations, games, and websites.
Girls Who Code Club is a 2-hour, weekly commitment from October through May. Started in 2012 with the single mission to close the gender gap in technology, Girls Who Code is a national program designed to inspire, educate, and prepare girls with computing and problem solving skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.
Please register to receive the Zoom link.
