The Malden Public Library will be closed on Monday, Feb. 20th in honor of Presidents Day. MPL will reopen on Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 9 am.
Closed for Presidents Day
The Malden Public Library will be closed on Monday, Feb. 20th in honor of Presidents Day. MPL will reopen on Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 9 am.
WHO: Young Adults in the 6th-12th Grade
WHEN: Thursday, February 23rd 3PM-4:30 PM
WHERE: Maccario Room
We will have food and snacks, video and board games. Space and snacks are limited, first come first served and no sign-up required! Relax on your vacation with friends at the Malden Public Library.
Join us for Movie Night on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 from 6:00-8:45pm. We will be showing a movie based on the Marvel Comics character, “Black Panther [in] Wakanda Forever.”
“The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.” Rated PG-13 (161 min.) (2023)
This film is free and open to the public. Movie times are approximate. Free snacks will be provided. Please call the Malden Public Library at 781-324-0218 for more information.
Join us on Monday Feb 27th at 7pm in the Maccario Room as we welcome Medford’s Poet Laureate, Terry E. Carter as he reads from his Brown Skin series.
Copies of his books will be available for purchase at the event.
Join Faten Shelbayeh, owner and manager of We Care Elderly Care Services, LLC and author of You Care, We Care: Stop Elder Abuse, for an engaging discussion on senior care and the unfortunately growing trend of elder abuse in our society and how best to address it. The author talk will be on Thursday February 23rd from 6-7pm at the Malden Public Library, 36 Salem St., Malden, MA. Books will be available for purchase at the event. For more information call (781) 324-0218 or email us at info@maldenpubliclibrary.org
Join us for Movie Night on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 from 6:00-8:00pm. We will be showing a movie based on the mythical Irish folklore story of “The Banshees of Inisherin.” The film is nominated for eight Golden Globes.
“Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.” Rated R (114 min.) (2022)
This film is free and open to the public. Movie times are approximate.
The Malden Historical Society and the Friends of the Malden Public Library will host their Annual Holiday Concert, Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 2 pm in the Ryder Gallery of the Malden Public Library. Admission is free.
This year’s entertainment will feature Gabriella Snyder and Ed Meradith and a host of holiday and winter songs and instrumentals. Light refreshments will follow the concert.
Bill Powers will be at the Malden Public Library on December 8th from 6-7pm for an author talk on his newly published book “When the Smoked Cleared: A Murder Mystery in Malden.” Early on a summer morning in 2000 what started off as possible arson in a Malden residential complex quickly turned into a homicide investigation. Detective Lieutenant Bill Powers was on-scene that morning as senior supervisor of the Massachusetts State Police Unit assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. This true crime thriller takes the reader from the crime scene, through the trial prep and court proceedings, to the final verdict. His position and direct involvement in the case offers a unique perspective on the people involved in solving and prosecuting capital crimes.
From the book “Beyond a police and courtroom procedural, this story is about the personal struggles in the victim’s life and how her death impacted her family’s lives in ways no one could have foreseen. It is a love story that grew from unspeakable tragedy.”
For more information on Bill Powers including his previous book Murderous Rage, visit https://www.powersonpolicing.com
Join the Malden Library in welcoming local cookbook author and founder of the Lazy Italian Culinary Adventures, Francesca Montillo. On Thursday December 15th at 7pm Francesca will present a program on Italian cooking traditions and her experiences as a native Italian leading culinary tours of Italy. Books will be available to purchase at the program.
About the author: “Francesca Montillo is a native Italian and currently resides between Boston and her native land. She is the owner and founder of Lazy Italian Culinary Adventures, which offers in-person cooking classes, as well as Zoom cooking classes for team building and special celebrations. Francesca also offers food and wine tours to Italy and has brought small groups to various regions, including Puglia, Emilia Romagna, Sicily and beyond. Francesca is also a food and travel writer and is on staff at several magazines.
She can be reached at www.thelazyitalian.com” –Author’s bio
Join Lloyd Schwartz and the Malden Library on Zoom to talk about the poem: “A Refusal to Mourn for the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” By Dylan Thomas. Registration is requested. To get your Zoom invite by following this link to register: http://bit.ly/3AxS94O
Lloyd Schwartz is an American poet and lives and writes in the Boston area.
“His collections of poetry include Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems (2021), Little Kisses (2017), Cairo Traffic (2000), Goodnight, Gracie (1992), and These People (1981). His poetry has also been featured in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1991, 1994, 2019), The Best of the Best American Poetry (2013), and Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (2009). His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry magazine, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Agni, Consequence, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Schwartz is the editor of Prose: Elizabeth Bishop (2011) and coeditor of Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (1983) and of the Library of America’s Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008).
Schwartz also served as the classical music editor of the Boston Phoenix. Three-time winner of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor Awards, he has received a Professional Music Fraternity’s Radio and Television Award as well as support from the Amphion Foundation. Music In—and On—the Air (2013) offers a selection of his classical music criticism for the National Public Radio program Fresh Air.
Schwartz’s poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize. Additional honors include a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Somerville Arts Council, an Associates of the Boston Public Library Literary Lights Award, and a 2019 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. Schwartz has served on the executive board of PEN New England and is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, where he has served as director of the creative writing program. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he was the Poet Laureate of the City of Somerville from 2019 to 2021.”–Poetry Foundation
This program is made possible by the Malden Public Library and the Academy of American Poets and funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation