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!
Library Holiday Hours
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!
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.
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
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