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
Join us on Tuesday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m. for a lecture by scholar and historian Dee Morris entitled, “James Redpath: Malden’s Spirited Abolitionist and Agitator.” The lecture will explore the life of this complex reformer. Dedicated to his unique brand of fairness, Redpath, a radical freethinker, challenged the community to rethink their views about equality in all its forms. He inspired heated controversy, yet forged lasting friendships in the community – a true Malden original.
James Redpath (1833–1891) was an important figure in many of the key developments in nineteenth-century American political and cultural life. He advocated for abolition, civil rights, Irish nationalism, women’s suffrage, and labor unions. In 1868, Redpath founded The Boston Lyceum Bureau (later the Redpath Lyceum Bureau) which promoted lecturers and authors of celebrity including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain.
Dee Morris is a scholar and educational consultant specializing in the nineteenth-century history of Greater Boston. She is the author of Boston in the Golden Age of Spiritualism: Séances, Mediums & Immortality. Her goal is help us all connect to our civic ancestors.
For more information, check out the Malden Public Library website at www.maldenpubliclibrary.org.
Are you a local artist looking to display your work? The Malden Public Library is now accepting applications for the monthly Rotating Art Exhibit! Through December 31, 2022, you can apply to showcase your art in the library, February – June 2023. Please visit our Rotating Art Exhibit webpage for more information.
The Friends of the Malden Public Library are seeking volunteers & board members. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, Nov. 8th at 7:30pm. Please consider volunteering. Help a little or help a lot! It all helps the Library. All are welcome!
For more information, contact the Library or the Friends of the Malden Public Library www.friendsofmaldenlibrary.org
On Friday, October 28, at 4:00pm, children will have a chance to meet Jenna McLaughlin, Miss Massachusetts Outstanding Teen 2022. She will be reading from her children’s book, Roxanne Takes a Stand, and talking about how to be kind and take a stand to support friends and classmates. Jenna wrote the book after her own experiences of being bullied when she was younger. Recommended for ages 5-7.
This early literacy program for young children (6 months to 4+ years) features songs, nursery rhymes, and a short picture book and takes place on alternating Saturdays (November 5 & 19, December 3 & 17 & 31, etc.), from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m in the Children’s Room. No registration required. Just come on by!
Young Adults in the 6th through 12th grade are invited to enjoy an afternoon gathering on Thursday, Oct 27th from 3-4:30. Get into the autumnal spirit with games with friends in the Program Room on the second floor of the library.
Video games, Board Games, Pizza and refreshments will be available first come first served, so make sure to come in early to hang out and relax.