Children are invited to join us on Tuesday, April 18, at noon and meet local children’s book author, Christine Ricci-McNamee. She will be reading from her two picture books, Logan and the Lost Luggage and Louella and the Librarian. Afterwards, she will be available to talk with children about the process of writing a book, sign books, and answer any questions. Her books will be available for purchase. Most appropriate for ages 5-7
Young Adults in the 6th through 12th grade are invited to get crafty at the MPL on Thursday, March 9th from 3:00 – 4:30 PM in the Program Room.
Perler Beads are small pixel-like beads that you can use to create art that can be turned into keychains, magnets, doodads and more. Create something with your imagination or use a printed guide. No sign-up is required but space and time is limited.
The Malden Public Library has just joined the Massachusetts Library Collaborative 50+ Job Seekers Networking Group. The Job Seekers Networking Group supports people fifty years and older looking for a new job, a new career direction, re-entering the workforce after an employment gap, or looking for a “Second Act” career. There will be biweekly skill-building and networking group meetings with a new topic at each meeting. Attendance at each session is not necessary – but highly recommended.
Join Debbi Hope, MBA, PCIC, MC an experienced Executive Career Coach and Certified Master Coach.
WHERE: All meetings will be via Zoom Video Conferencing.
WHEN : We offer a morning or an evening class please choose the time that works best for you:
1st and 3rd Wed, Jan – June 2023 9:30-11:30 am
2nd and 4th Wed. Jan – June afternoon 6:00-8:00
(Zoom room opens 30 minutes ahead of the start of the program for informal networking/sharing resources).
Here is the ZOOM registration link for the 50+ Job Seekers morning meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdO2rqjovE9xW_F5wfL_jbfjGkgU_Gnbz.
Here is the ZOOM registration link for the 50+ Job Seekers evening meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcOuupj0pEtJQAa0w8VAsWex6BOJcWBFn.
Need to catch up on your Phase 4 Marvel Cinematic films before Phase 5 starts?
Young Adults in the 6th through 12th grade are invited to watch the latest film based on the comic book character “Doctor Strange” in the Maccario Room on Wednesday, February 15th from 3:00-5:00 PM.
Snacks and drinks will be provided on a first come, first served basis, so grab your seats when the doors open at 3:00 PM.
Join us at the Malden Public Library Saturday, January 7th from 10-11am for a free cultural event. Vertep is the Ukrainian cultural tradition of Christmas puppet theater with its beginnings in the 17th century. Traveling groups of performers shared stories interweaving scenes from the nativity with daily life with up to 40 distinct characters.
The Vertep theatre developed into numerous regional variants but always with a central storyline – the conflict between good and evil. Evil is always vanquished and good always triumphs. Vertep was an illegal practice during the Soviet occupation of Ukraine but continued to be performed in secret as a way for the Ukrainian people to both rebel and preserve their culture.
Today, with darkness looming over Ukraine, these rich traditions offer a light of hope to lead us through this joyous season. The Ukrainian Cultural Center of New England hopes to share this tradition to bring hope, faith, and joy to our communities, by reminding us that good will always win over evil.
The library will be closed for the holiday on Friday December 23rd through Monday, December 26th. We reopen on Tuesday December 27th. Have a happy and safe holiday!
Saturday, December 17th from 11-1230 pm, join Lloyd Schwartz and the Malden Library on Zoom to talk about the poem: “Poetry” By Marianne Moore from Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse, edited by Alfred Kreymborg. Registration is requested. To get your Zoom invite by following this link to register: http://bit.ly/3YeoWWZ
To read a digital copy of this specific edition of the poem you can follow this link: http://bit.ly/3HHhBcm
Or pick up a printed copy at the library’s information desk. Moore wrote and rewrote this poem a number of times, but for this program we are focusing on this iteration.
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
Craft time with Panda is a drop-in program that is offered on alternating Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. (December 9, January 6, January 20, etc.). Recommended for children ages 3-5+.
Beginning October 20, this book club for 2nd and 3rd graders will meet monthly on the third Thursday of the month at 4:00pm for 45 minutes. The program will include an informal book discussion, some snacks, and a book-related activity when appropriate. Sign up at the Children’s Room desk or by calling the Children’s Room at 781.388.0803. Regular attendance is encouraged. Pick up the book from the Children’s Room desk 2-3 weeks before the club meeting.
October 20 selection: The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey – Author interview – Video: “How to Draw Mr. Shark”
November 17 selection: The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin – Author interview – Author discusses The Trouble with Chickens – How to make an origami bookmark
December 15 selection: Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon
January 19 selection: I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Lauren Tarshis
February 16 selection: Alvin Ho – Allergic to Girls, School and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
March 16 selection: Grilled Cheese and Dragons (Princess Pulverizer series) by Nancy Krulik
April 20 selection: Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger & Cece Bell
May 18 selection: 8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = CHAOS by Vivian Vande Velde