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Poets on the Water
Organized by Duluth Poet Laureate Gary Boelhower, this poetry reading will feature Ryan Vine, Ann Glumac and Shelley Getten. Music will be provided by Dave Winchester. Other readers are invited to sign up at the event for the open mic portion of the program. Refreshments will be available. The Duluth Poet Laureate Project is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Duluth Public Library, Lake Superior Writers, Lake Superior College and the English departments at UMD and the College of Saint…
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Mt. Royal Readers’ Guild
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Kids can read Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library together and unlock its secrets through puzzles and activities. Library staff will read and participants will have the choice to read or not. Books will be handed out while supplies last.
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Baby and Toddler Storytime
An event every week that begins at 10:15am on Wednesday, repeating indefinitely
The Duluth Public Library presents 20 minutes of simple stories and fingerplays for infants and toddlers with parents every Wednesday in the Main Library Green Room. Meet in Youth Services.
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West Duluth Library Storytime
An event every week that begins at 10:30am on Wednesday, repeating indefinitely
West Duluth branch, outer lounge. Every Wednesday. 30 minutes of stories, songs and fingerplays. Birth-preschool.
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Preschool Storytime
An event every week that begins at 11:15am on Wednesday, repeating indefinitely
The Duluth Public Library presents 30 minutes of stories, songs and fingerplays in the Main Library Green Room every Wednesday. Parents are welcome to attend with their preschoolers, but may also treat this as a first independent activity for their children. Meet in Youth Services area.
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Storytime at Mount Royal Library
An event every week that begins at 10:15am on Thursday, repeating indefinitely
Mount Royal Branch Blue Room, every Thursday. 30 minutes of stories, songs and fingerplays. Birth-preschool.
Find out more »Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride
Zenith Bookstore hosts a reading and signing by contributors and editors to this exciting new collection at the start of Duluth-Superior Pride week. In Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride, 44 LGBTQIA+ voices provide a vibrant, necessary, and dazzling component of Minnesota's cultural and historical fabric. Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has…
Find out more »Poetry Reading: Patricia Killelea
Xicana Irish-American poet Patricia Killelea reads poems from her recent publication Counterglow. In astronomy, a counterglow is a faint light in the dark night sky made of interplanetary dust. Patricia’s lyric poems speak from this place of darkness, seeking some kind of brightness to cling to, however faint. Patricia Killelea is a poet and digital media artist and Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University. Alongside her will be readings from local poets Adeline Wright,…
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Meet and greet Tim Jollymore, whose newest novel People You've Been Before is a fierce portrait of a couple's 40-year relationship from marriage through divorce and its aftermath.
Find out more »Brave Girls and Wise Women
Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux presents a storytelling adventure. Hear how Tatterhood battles a band of trolls, Manka solves impossible riddles and Vasalisa dares to knock at the witch's door. Daring heroines reclaim fairytales as fierce, funny and feminine. This program is intended for youths ages 7-12, but is appropriate and enjoyable for teens, mixed-age audiences and adults. 8/6/19: West Duluth Branch Library 6:00-7:00 p.m. 8/7/19: Mount Royal Branch Library 6:00-7:00 p.m. 8/9/19: Main Library 10:30-11:30 a.m.
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Squad Car Storytime
An event every 2 weeks that begins at 3:45pm on Wednesday, repeating indefinitely
Stories read by one of Duluth's police officers in the library's Youth Services area.
Find out more »Poetry Reading: Phil Fitzpatrick
Phil Fitzpatrick will read from his new collection, Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season, a book of poems about the annual fall migration of raptors above Duluth’s renowned Hawk Ridge. Published by Savage Press of Brule and illustrated by Duluth artist Penny Perry, Fitzpatrick’s book offers an intimate glimpse of the ritual of migration when raptors of all kinds — hawks, eagles, falcons, kestrels, vultures, even crows and ravens — stream down from the north along…
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Teen Anime and Manga Club
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Anime, cosplay, manga, food and games in the Green Room. All teens in grades 6-12 are welcome. Summer Events June 20: Cosplay Contest – Come dressed in cosplay for a chance for prizes including gift cards to Barnes & Noble. July 18: Candy Tapeball – Candy galore for the fastest fingers. August 1: Create anime buttons and keychains and Wii U gaming. Sept 19: Create with Perler beads.
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One event on Jul 18, 2019 at 7:00pm
Spoken Word Open Mic
An event every month that begins at 7:00pm on day Third of the month, repeating indefinitely
One event on Jul 18, 2019 at 7:00pm
The Spoken Word Open Mic series, hosted by Tina Higgins Wussow, is open to all genres. Writers interested in a 10-minute performance slot can simply sign up on arrival. The event occurs on the third Thursday of each month.
Find out more »An Evening with William Kent Krueger and Faith Sullivan
Zenith Bookstore presents an evening with authors Faith Sullivan and William Kent Krueger, who will talk about, read from and sign copies of their new novels. Please note: This event was previously scheduled to be held at Sacred Heart Music Center as a ticketed event. It will instead be a free-admission event at the bookstore. Those who purchased tickets will be refunded. William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary Grace, winner of the…
Find out more »Author Event: Sheila O’Connor
Award-winning Minnesota author Sheila O'Connor presents her book, Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions, which is set to be released in October 2019. In an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, Connor tells the story of V, a talented 15-year-old singer in 1930's Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent…
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