April 18, 2024
Favorite Poem Night Reminder
Please join us. If you are willing to read a poem, you can submit your chosen poem as late as the morning of Tuesday the 23rd. The poem should be something published that is not your own work. Song lyrics are acceptable.
Submit poems to jillr@takomaparkmd.gov,
Wednesday April 24 2024 - 7pm to 8:30pm
7505 New Hampshire Ave, Suite 205
Refreshments!
Mask wearing is encouraged
March 29, 2024
Favorite Poem Night
It's not enough to speak, but to speak true.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
April is Poetry Month and Favorite Poem Night returns at the Takoma Park Maryland Library.
We will gather at our spacious interim digs on New Hampshire Avenue and enjoy a night of poetry, friends, and refreshments. We will be joined by
Takoma Park Poet Laureate, Taylor Johnson.
Wednesday April 24 2024~~~7pm~8:30pm
7505 New Hampshire Ave, Suite 205
If you would like to read a beloved poem-something published that is not your own work—please submit the title, the author, your phone number and your name o jillr@takomaparkmd.gov, by April 22
This year—in the spirit of Taylor Swift’s upcoming release The Tortured Poets Department--we are encouraging people to consider song lyrics as poems. Whatever our literary source, tortured or not, we welcome you.
Mask wearing is encouraged; we will have participants from all walks of life, who may have multiple health challenges.
March 28, 2024
Friends of the Library Annual Meeting
You are invited to join the Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library for its annual meeting on Monday evening, May 20 at 7pm at the library.
Our speaker will be Marc Mauer, former Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and author of Race To Incarcerate, who will explore the racial politics that led to the U.S. becoming a world leader in its structure of mass incarceration.
We’ll meet at the library's temporary location on New Hampshire Avenue, 7505 New Hampshire Avenue above the Caribbean Market. Refreshments will be served.