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Poetry Showcase Featuring Taylor Johnson's Workshop Series Participants

Celebrating the 2022 Poetry Contest Finalists with Little Patuxent Review

Poetry & Conversation with Wicked Woman Prize Winner Lori Jakiela & Judge Nancy Naomi Carlson

Voices of Woodlawn: A Conversation with Poets of Witness

Celebrating the 2021 Poetry Contest Finalists with Little Patuxent Review

Writers LIVE! Leslie Gray Streeter, Black Widow

Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

Seven at Seven: Local Poets Showcase

Writers LIVE! Alec MacGillis, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Writers LIVE! Justin Fenton, We Own This City

Writers LIVE! Audrey Clare Farley, The Unfit Heiress

Writers LIVE! Morgan Jerkins

Creative State of Our Union: Readings and Discussion

Mediums, Magicians, and the Ouija Board: A Spiritualist History of Baltimore

Poetry & Conversation with Joseph Ross & Michael Torres

CityLit Festival & Writers LIVE! present Emily St. John Mandel & Jenny Offill

The Business of Publishing: AfricanFuturism Edition

Writers LIVE! Lawrence T. Brown, The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

Annual Lucille Clifton Celebration: Today We Are Possible

Brown Lecture Series: Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, James Dale, and Dr. Freeman Hrabowski

Poetry & Conversation: Carl Phillips with Lia Purpura

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture featuring Eddie Glaude

Writers Cribs! Danielle Evans

An Afternoon of Poetry: Readings by Cave Canem Poets, featuring Steven Leyva and Evie Shockley

Writers Cribs! C. Fraser Smith, The Daily Miracle

Writers Cribs! Ron Cassie, If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back

Writers Cribs! Kate Wyer and Kate Reed Petty

Writers Cribs! Jane Austen and the Resilient Mind: Reading Emma Today

Not for the Faint of Heart: An Evening with Senator Barbara Mikulski and Wendy Sherman

Writers LIVE! Erica Green, Tawanda Jones, Brandon Soderberg, Baynard Woods

Brown Lecture Series: Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Writers LIVE! Firmin DeBrabander, Life after Privacy

Writers LIVE! Mary Rizzo, Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore beyond John Waters and The Wire

Baltimore Vote! with Michael J. Wilson

Brown Lecture Series: Dapper Dan, Made in Harlem: A Memoir

Ray Bradbury and the Future of Speculative Fiction

Visions of the Future Panel Discussion

An Evening with Evelyn from the Internets

Poetry & Conversation: James Arthur & George David Clark

Writers LIVE! R. Eric Thomas, Here For It

Writers LIVE! Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

Black History Month, Violence and Education

Love for Lucille

Writers LIVE! Dr. Neal Barnard, Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health

Writers LIVE! Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Brown Lecture Series: Crystal Wilkinson, The Birds of Opulence

Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage: Shaping the National Movement

Writers LIVE! Bruce Katz, The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture: D.O.P.E. (Dedication, Opportunity, Positivity, and Excellence) Dad 101

An Artist's Evolution: Shinique Smith in Conversation with Cara Ober

Writers LIVE! Aaron Bobrow-Strain, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story

Writers LIVE! Malka Older, …and Other Disasters

An Afternoon of Poetry: Readings by Cave Canem Poets

Crossing the Lines Between Us, with author Lawrence Lanahan

Writers LIVE! Rick Atkinson, The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

The Business of Publishing: Genre Writing

Writers LIVE! Anne Gardiner Perkins, Yale Needs Women

Perspectives on Education with Kalman Hettleman and Erica Green

Celebrate Veterans Day with Jacqueline Kane

Brown Lecture: Dorothy Butler Gilliam, Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

From Twilight into Sunshine: LGBTQ+ History in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region

Decolonize Your Bookshelves with Grace Talusan, The Body Papers

Writers LIVE! Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives

Writers LIVE! Marita Golden, Us Against Alzheimer's: Stories of Families, Love, and Faith

Writers LIVE! Reginald Dwayne Betts and Lady Brion

Andrew Carnegie’s Gift to Baltimore: EPFL’s Carnegie Branch Libraries

Poetry & Conversation: Jona Colson, Edgar Kunz, & Tanya Olson

Writers LIVE! Brian Kuebler, The Long Blink

Writers LIVE! Kate Black, Represent

Writers LIVE! Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

Writers LIVE: Chris Formant, Saving Washington: The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and The Battle of Brooklyn

Celebrating the 2019 Poetry Contest Finalists with Little Patuxent Review

Writers LIVE: Kim Paris Upshaw, Sunshine and Daniel: Seeking Grace in Lost Motherhood

Sister City Presentation: Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Writers Live: David Taft Terry, The Struggle and the Urban South: Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore before the Movement

Writers LIVE: Elizabeth Schmidt, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror

Poetry & Conversation: Jericho Brown

Celebrate Juneteenth with Sheri Booker

Writers LIVE: Renee Catacalos, The Chesapeake Table: Your Guide to Eating Local

Writers LIVE: Dan Rodricks, Father’s Day Creek: On Fly Fishing, Fatherhood and the Last Best Place on Earth

Decolonize Your Bookshelves Launch with Gina Apostol

Writers LIVE: James Cabezas, Eyes of Justice

Writers LIVE: Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

An Evening with Mason Jar Press

Poetry & Conversation: Ned Balbo, G.H. Mosson, & Nomi Stone

Writers LIVE: Katrina Bell McDonald, Marriage in Black

Writers LIVE: Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis

An Evening with Adelaide Books featuring Matthew Nino Azcuy and Heather Rounds

Writers LIVE: Charita Cole Brown, Defying the Verdict

Writers LIVE: Leonard Pitts, Jr., The Last Thing You Surrender

Writers LIVE: Brian VanDeMark, Road To Disaster

Writers LIVE: Jessie Morgan-Owens, Girl in Black and White

Celebrate Women's History Month with celeste doaks, Lady Brion, and DaMaris Hill

Writers LIVE: Linda Morris, Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Children in Jim Crow Baltimore

John Muller: The Lost History of Frederick (Bailey) Douglass in Baltimore

Writers LIVE: Ross Gay, The Book of Delights

Writers LIVE: Ayesha Harruna Attah, The Hundred Wells of Salaga

Poetry & Conversation: Paulette Beete, Kathleen Hellen, & Stephen Zerance

Writers LIVE: David Taylor, Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II

Writers LIVE: Christianna McCausland, The Orchard Lover

Writers LIVE: Leslie Jamison, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Writers LIVE: Katrina Bell McDonald, Embracing Sisterhood

Poetry & Conversation: Elizabeth Spires & David Yezzi

Matthew Horace, The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement

An Evening with Nic Stone, One Book Baltimore author

Writers LIVE: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Cyberwar

The Business of Publishing: Screenwriting Edition

An Evening with Porochista Khakpour and Mattilda B. Sycamore

Poetry & Conversation: Joelle Biele, Ann Bracken, & Ann Quinn

Writers LIVE: Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Writers LIVE: Jabari Asim, We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival

Poetry & Conversation: Geraldine Connolly & Doritt Carroll

Writers LIVE: Tim Mohr, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Writers LIVE: Eugene Meyer, Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army

2018 Mencken Memorial Lecture

An Evening with Michael Downs & Paul Goldberg

Writers LIVE: Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour

Celebrating the 2018 Poetry Contest Finalists with Little Patuxent Review

An Evening with Laura van den Berg and Nate Brown

An Evening with The Imagination Lab

Writers LIVE: Kimberla Lawson Roby, Better Late Than Never

Writers LIVE: Anthony Moll, Out of Step

Brown Lecture: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice

Writers LIVE: Kevin Shird, The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements

Writers LIVE: Rachel Devlin, A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

Poetry & Conversation: Jennifer Chang & Jenny Johnson

Writers LIVE: Darnell Moore, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

Writers LIVE: Natalie Hopkinson, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance

Writers LIVE: Peter B. Levy, The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America During the 1960s

Writers LIVE: Nadine Strossen, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship

Writers LIVE: Janet Dewart Bell, Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Poetry & Conversation: Lauren Haldeman & Kiki Petrosino

Writers LIVE: Elaine Weiss, The Woman's Hour: The Last Furious Fight to Win the Vote

Brown Lecture: Dr. Mary Frances Berry, History Teaches Us to Resist

Writers LIVE: Joshua Clark Davis, From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs

Be Our Valentine: An Evening with Tayari Jones

Opening Program for the exhibit, "Ira's Shakespeare Dream: Original Illustrations by Floyd Cooper"

Writers LIVE: Mark Whitaker, Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

Writers LIVE: David Cay Johnston, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America

Brown Lecture Series: Paul Butler, Chokehold: Policing Black Men

Writers LIVE: John Merrow, Addicted to Reform: A Twelve-Step Program to Rescue Public Education

Budgeting Basics: Staying Mindful with Your Money

The Business of Publishing

Writers LIVE: Dr. Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Poetry & Conversation: Hilary S. Jacqmin, Greg Williamson, & Michele Wolf

Writers LIVE: Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College

The Vietnam War: Realities That Got Lost

Writers LIVE: Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Writers LIVE: Michael Fabey, Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific

Writers LIVE: Jonathan Eig, Ali: A Life

Writers LIVE: Melvin A. Goodman, Whistleblower at the CIA

Poetry & Conversation: Shirley J. Brewer, Sarah Merrow, Jadi Z. Omowale, & Michelle M. Tokarczyk

Writers LIVE: Julie Lythcott-Haims, Real American: A Memoir

Writers LIVE: John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins, Rising Tide: Climate Refugees in the 21st Century

Writers LIVE: Lawrence P. Jackson, Chester B. Himes: A Biography

Poetry & Conversation: Grace Cavalieri & Richard Harteis

Writers LIVE: Alvin Stone, Stoney: The Story of My Dad's Life An African American Groom of Horse Racing

Mencken Day 2017

Writers LIVE: Cathy Scott-Clark, The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

Game Changer: How We Transformed Our Careers

Writers LIVE: P.J. Crowley, Red Line: American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States

Writers LIVE: Dinah Miller and Annette Hanson, Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

Meet the Authors of In the Margins: A Conversation in Poetry

Audio Tour

Writers LIVE: Geoffrey Cowan, Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary

Poetry & Conversation: Elizabeth Hazen & Rose Solari

An Evening with D Watkins and Liza Jessie Peterson

An Evening with Mason Jar Press

Writers LIVE: Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future

Writers LIVE: Stacey Patton, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America

Writers LIVE: Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields, What I Learned in the Midst of KAOS: The Making of an Ubuntu Teacher

Poetry & Conversation: Brian Gilmore & Joseph Ross

Writers LIVE: Eric D. Goodman, Womb: A Novel in Utero

Writers LIVE: Helene Cooper, Madame President

Writers LIVE: Wesley Lowery, They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

Writers LIVE: Brendan Walsh & Willa Bickham, The Long Loneliness in Baltimore

Brown Lecture Series: April Ryan, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White

Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Writers LIVE: Milt Diggins, Stealing Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line: Thomas McCreary, the Notorious Slave Catcher from Maryland

Writers LIVE: Michael I. Days, Obama's Legacy: What He Accomplished as President

Writers LIVE: W.A.H. Gill, Yesterday's Tomorrow

Writers LIVE: Kenneth C. Davis, In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

Writers LIVE: Regina Calcaterra and Rosie Maloney, Girl Unbroken: A Sister's Harrowing Story of Survival from the Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho

Brown Lecture Series: Valerie Graves, Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

Poetry & Conversation: Meg Eden & Barrett Warner

Writers LIVE: Monica Coleman, Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith

Poetry & Conversation: celeste doaks & Jane Satterfield

Writers LIVE: Pamela Rigby, Waiting to Be Found: The Lost Treasure of Fannie Keene

Writers LIVE: Wenonah Hauter, Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment

Writers LIVE: Amina Hassan, Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

Writers LIVE: Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

An Evening With Ron Capps and Tom Glenn

Writers LIVE: Alejandro Danois, The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball

Writers LIVE: Kevin Shird, Uprising in the City: Made in America

Mencken Society Meeting 2016

The 2016 Mencken Memorial Lecture - Laura Claridge

Celebrating the Poetry Contest Finalists with Little Patuxent Review

Writers LIVE: Joan Quigley, Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital

An Evening With Jessica Anya Blau and Matthew Norman

Writers LIVE: Terry McMillan, I Almost Forgot About You

Writers LIVE: Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

Writers LIVE: Sadeqa Johnson, Second House from the Corner

Poetry & Conversation: Looking Back to Move Forward with Ann Bracken & Barbara Morrison

Writers LIVE: Ron Tanner, Missile Paradise

Writers LIVE: Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf, Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

The Eye of the Poet: Readings by Robert "Sonny" Wood

Writers LIVE: Dr. T. L. Osborne, The Hip-Hop Lectures

Writers LIVE: Cokie Roberts, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868

An Evening of Music with Pianist Jermaine Gardner

Writers LIVE: Timothy J. Jorgensen, Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

Writers LIVE: James McBride, Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

Writers LIVE: Bob Luke, Integrating the Orioles: Baseball and Race in Baltimore

Writers LIVE: Kristi M. Fondren, Walking on the Wild Side: Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail

Writers LIVE: Michael J. Lisicky, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: A Century of Sound

Brown Lecture: Gail Lumet Buckley, The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family

An Evening with Cal Ripken, Jr.

Poetry-Writing Workshop: Make a Joyful Noise

Writers LIVE: Cory Booker, United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good

Grants Workshop for Nonprofits and Government Entities

Poetry & Conversation: John Gery

Writers LIVE: Joy-Ann Reid, Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide

Poetry & Conversation: Sandra Beasley & Leslie Harrison

Writers LIVE: Alondra Nelson, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

Writers LIVE: Naomi Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill

Brown Lecture: Phyllis Lawson, Quilt of Souls

Writers LIVE: Daniel de Vise, Andy and Don; the Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show

Writers LIVE: James Kilgore, Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time

Writers LIVE: Wil Haygood, Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

Schapiro Lecture: Rita Gabis, A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, and a Search for the Truth

Poetry & Conversation: James Arthur & Joseph Harrison

Brown Lecture Series: Sonja D. Williams, Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom

Talking About Race: A History of Segregation

Writers LIVE: D. Watkins, The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America

Writers LIVE: Robert K. Musil, Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

Writers LIVE: Charles Belfoure, House of Thieves

Writers LIVE: Leonard Pitts, Grant Park

Film: The New Black

Talking About Race: Rights for Domestic Workers

Writers LIVE: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

Poetry and Conversation: Kathi Wolfe, David Eberhardt, and Gregg Mosson

Writers LIVE: Rachel B. Glaser, Paulina & Fran: A Novel

Writers LIVE: John Keene, Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas

Talking About Race: Media Bias and Black Communities

Writers LIVE: Scott Shane, Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone

Writers LIVE: Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Holding Fast to Dreams: Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement

Writers LIVE: Dale Russakoff, The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?

James Patterson - Public School Superhero

Writers LIVE: Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun

Mencken Day 2015

Writers LIVE: Miko Branch, Miss Jessie's: Creating a Successful Business fromScratch -- Naturally

Writers LIVE: Firmin De Brabander, Do Guns Make Us Free?: Democracy and the Armed Society

Writers LIVE: Tamara Winfrey-Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Writers LIVE: Joe Wenke, The Human Agenda: Conversations About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Game Changer: How We Transformed Our Careers

Writers LIVE: Ian Millhiser, Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

Writers LIVE: Victoria Christopher Murray, Stand Your Ground

Writers LIVE: David Greene, Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

Writers LIVE: A. L. Herbert, Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles

Writers LIVE: Jabari Asim, Only the Strong

Writers LIVE: Maria Drumm, Silk Road Journeys

Writers LIVE: Kimberla Lawson Roby, The Ultimate Betrayal

Writers LIVE: An Evening of Mystery with Allison Leotta (A Good Killing) and Mary Louise Kelly (The Bullet)

Writers LIVE: Ruth Reichl, Delicious! A Novel

Writers LIVE: Kenneth C. Davis, The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

"Gentrification (k)NOT" -- Film Discussion

Poetry & Conversation: Abdul Ali & Venus Thrash

Writers LIVE: Kathleen O'Ferrall Friedman and Barbara J. Parker: That It May Be Well With You: The Founding of The House of Ruth Maryland

Islamic State in Iraq: Where Are Things Headed?

Writers LIVE: Tom Hayden, Listen, Yankee! Why Cuba Matters

CityLit Festial 2015 - Punk and Prose

CityLit Festial 2015 - The Real Lives of Romance Writers

CityLit Festial 2015 - Poetry Reading

CityLit Festial 2015 - Serious Short Fiction

CityLit Festial 2015 - 4th Annual Pratt LIBRARY Poetry Contest

CityLit Festial 2015 - John Darnielle

CityLit Festial 2015 - Poetry in Medicine: An Anthology of Poems About Doctors, Patients, Illness, and Healing

CityLit Festial 2015 - Clash by Night Book Launch

CityLit Festival 2015 - Rock and the Written Word

Sheree Franklin, Intuition: The Hidden Asset Everyone Should Learn How to Use

Celebrating Earth Day: How Empowering Women Leads to Protecting the Environment in West Africa

David O. Stewart, Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America

Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944

Brown Lecture: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes

Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

A. Rod Womack, Redwood

SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Avoiding Pitfalls in African-Native American Genealogy

SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Exploring the Rolls for Black-Indian History: From the Dawes Rolls to the Guion Miller Rolls

SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Researching Blended Families in 19th and 20th Century Records

SLRC Annual Genealogy Lecture : Native American Genealogy Research - The Basics

Barney Frank, Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same Sex Marriage

Dr. Preeti R. John, ed., Being a Woman Surgeon: Sixty Women Share Their Stories

Poetry & Conversation: Steven Leyva, Rebekah Remington, & John A. Nieves

Carol McCabe Booker, ed., Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Women's History Month Literary Festival

James McGrath Morris, Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press

Poetry-Writing Workshop: Art for Poetry's Sake

PNC Bank Presents: The Library, and Women Business Owners - How to Achieve and Maintain Success

Ron Shapiro, The Power of Nice

Poetry-Writing Workshop: The Wisdom of Wonder Woman

Poetry-Writing Workshop: Writing "Fibs"

Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

Brown Lecture: April Ryan, The Presidency in Black and White

Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow

Wes Moore, The Work: My Search for a Life that Matters

Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl that Broke the Shell: A Novel

Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Beyond the Headlines: Liberia After Ebola

Poetry & Conversation: Elmaz Abinader & Kim Jensen

An Afternoon of Poetry: Readings by Tim Seibles and Cave Canem Poets

Jennifer S. Holland, Unlikely Heroes: 37 Inspiring Stories of Courage and Heart From the Animal Kingdom

Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

Edward J. Larson, The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789

Bob Rogers, The Laced Chameleon

Baron Wormser, Teach Us That Peace

Poetry & Conversation: Ailish Hopper & Melanie Henderson

Susan Katz Miller, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family

Sandy Summers and Harry Jacobs Summers, Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk

Richard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood

Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure

Donald L. Miller, Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America

Deborah Crombie, To Dwell in Darkness

Maurice Sendak: The Memorial Exhibition -- 50 Years, Works, Reasons

Justin Martin, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians

Joseph Chamberlin, A Doctor Dies and Other Stories

Poetry & Conversation: Julia Wendell, Melanie McCabe, & Shelley Puhak

Michael Ross, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

Talking About Race: Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity

Karl Alexander, The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood

Genealogy Circle Meeting

Congressman James E. Clyburn, Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black

Talking About Race: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Robert Timberg, Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir

Maureen Corrigan, So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis

Todd Brewster, Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War

Talking About Race: Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life

H. L. Mencken: Racist or Civil Rights Champion?

Marc Leepson, What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life

Jess Row: Your Face in Mine

LPR Poets Discuss Small Press Journals

Baltimore Heritage's Patterson Park War of 1812

Kevin Shird: Lessons of Redemption

An Evening with Katia D. Ulysse and Tiphanie Yanique

Poetry & Conversation: Cathy Linh Che, Eugenia Leigh, & Sally Wen Mao

Gerry Sandusky, Forgotten Sundays: A Son's Story of Life, Loss and Love from the Sidelines of the NFL

Eric S. Zeemering, Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities: Economy, Environment and Community in Baltimore

George W. Liebmann, The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy

Jim Ziolkowski, Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?

Craig L. Symonds, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings

Adult Summer Reading Kickoff: Literary Elements -- An Evening with Three Maryland Writers

Constance B. Schulz, Maryland in Black and White: Documentary Photography from the Great Depression and World War II

Carolyn A. Surrick: Silently, Shadows are Sweeping

City and Country: Why the Setting Matters in Traditional Mysteries -- A Conversation with Sheila Connolly and Sandra Parshall

My Brother's Keeper: Can the President Make Progress for Boys & Men of Color?

Innovation Expo: Create and Collaborate! - Afternoon

Innovation Expo: Create and Collaborate! - Morning

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan: Singapore Noir

The Beekman Boys (Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge): The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Vegetable Cookbook

Surina Ann Jordan, The Seven Disciplines of Wellness: The Spiritual Connection to Good Health

Janice Gary

Christopher Leonard, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

C. Alexander Hortis, The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York

Richard Striner, Washington and Baltimore Art Deco: A Design History of Neighboring Cities

CityLit Festival 2014 - Poetry in Translation

CityLit Festival 2014 - An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring

CityLit Festival 2014 - Releasing the Muse

CityLit Festival 2014 - The Tampa Connection

CityLit Festival 2014 - UMBCreative Writing

CityLit Festival 2014 - National Poetry Month Celebration

CityLit Festival 2014 - James McBride

CityLit Festival 2014 - Wesley Stace

CityLit Festival 2014 - Letters About Literature Awards Ceremony

An Evening with Elizabeth Nunez and Bernardine Evaristo, in conversation with Greg Sesek

Leigh Goodmark

Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

Inspira: The Power of the Spiritual

Terry Teachout, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington

Poetry & Conversation: Brian Teare & Joshua Weiner

Ronald M. Shapiro

International Women's History Month Literary Festival - 2014

The Art and Craft of Revision

Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore

Ekphrastic poetry

“I am a camera”

John Rizzo

Janis F. Kearney

Dr. Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Kaid Benfield

Sarah Arvio & Lia Purpura

Jen Michalski

Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wally Lamb

Vellamo: Folk Duo from Finland

James Carville and Mary Matalin

Rafael Alvarez and Dean Bartoli Smith

Robert Kolker

Elaine Eff

An Afternoon of Poetry

Chocolate & Romance 101

Ray Kamalay's Musical Flea Market

Hill Harper

Yvonne J. Medley

Elizabeth Spires and Joelle Biele

Wil S. Hylton

Carla Kaplan

Barbara Babcock

Hailey Leithauser and Reginald Harris

Censorship, Privacy, and Surveillance

Chris Matthews

Simon Winchester

Lin Hart

Pop Culture and Social Change

Michael Olesker

Gail Barrett

Carl Hart

Chuck Palahniuk's Adult Bedtime Stories

Susan Zuccotti

Jana Kopelentova Rehak

Proposal Writing Basics

World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

David Nasaw

Healthcare for All!

Grantseeking Basics

Keeping It Real

Saru Jayaraman

Eileen Rockefeller

Joanna Pearson and Megan McShea

Thomas Glave

Flute & Lute

An Evening with Allison Leotta and Sujata Massey

MK Asante

Harp Concert - Jasmine Hogan and Peggy Houng

Simple Measures: Preserving Family Records and Other Valuable Documents

Jamie Moyer

David O. Stewart

Mencken Day 2013

Piotr Gwiazda and Joseph Ross

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Simeon Booker

Daniel James Brown

Kiese Laymon

Jessica Anya Blau and Sarah Pekkanen

Catherine Tuerk

Rick Atkinson

Racial Differences in Arrests

Passager: a Press for Writers Over 50

Walter Mosley

Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Innovation Expo: DIY in Maryland

Medea Benjamin

30 Women, 30 Stories: Journeys to Recovery and Transformation

The Peabody Bassoon Studio

F. Michael Higginbotham

Salon Concert - Five Guys Wind Quintet

The Judges and the Judged

Salon Concert - Solomon Eichner

Michael T. Klare

Old Songs

CityLit Festival - Nonfiction Headliner Jamal Joseph

CityLit Festival - Two In One: Fiction With Jen Michalski And Terese Svoboda

CityLit Festival - Elder And Archivist: A Cave Canem Reunion

CityLit Festival - Importance Of Place: Tim Wendel And Leigh Newman

CityLit Festival - Fiction Headliner George Saunders

CityLit Festival - Poetry Headliners Stanley Plumly And Dick Allen

CityLit Festival - Maryland Humanities Council’s Letters About Literature

Fiscal Sponsorship 101

Susan M. Schneider

Sarah Erdreich

Elaine G. Breslaw

Antonia Randolph

Juliette Wells

Melvin A. Goodman

Legacy of Hope: The Marian Anderson Story

Taiye Selasi

Steven Gimbel

Jared A. Ball and Todd S. Burroughs

International Women's History Month Literary Festival

Kara Newman

Clarinda Harriss & Karen Garthe

Invasion of the Flying Saucers: Washington, DC 1952

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Bob Rogers

Bernice L. McFadden and Courttia Newland

Shirley Sherrod

James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire

Wenonah Hauter

Adam Robinson and Chris Mason

Emily Raboteau

PNC Bank Presents: How Baltimore Small Business Owners Are Facing a Challenging Economy

Ronald S. Coddington

Sue Ellen Thompson and Kathleen Hellen

Taylor Branch

Thaddeus Logan

George E. Leary, Jr.

The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss -- or Life -- Throws at You

Vellamo

Chris Hayes

Garrett Epps

Craig L. Symonds

Larry S. Gibson

Segregation and Fair Housing in the Baltimore Area

An Afternoon of Poetry

Charles O. Heller

High Schools, Race and America's Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity and Community

Elizabeth George

Eric Rutkow

Linda Pastan and Myra Sklarew

Michael I. Meyerson

Robert A. Hill

Rob Kasper

Ellen Cassedy

My City, My Home

CityLit Press and the World of Publishing

A Centenary Celebration of Pierrot Lunaire

Chris Cleave

Jeffrey Toobin

Harold Kwalwasser

Rafael Alvarez

Racial Anxiety and Unconscious Bias

Dr. Peter Beilenson and Patrick McGuire

Mencken Day - Richard J. Schrader

Linda Joy Burke and Michelle Antoinette Nelson

Tana French

Gerald Chertavian

Rachel L. Swarns

Susan Fales-Hill

Rachel Hennick

Maggie Anderson

James Mann

Tom Wilber

Ted Rall

Won't You Celebrate With Me?

Kendra Kopelke and Mary Azrael

David A. Taylor

Singer Ledisi

Mark Shriver

Russ Kick

Lawrence P. Jackson

Librarians Between the Covers...of Books!

Baratunde Thurston

Eva Gabrielsson

Writing Outside the Fence

Richard O'Mara

Salon Concert: The Jazz Exponents

Lia Purpura

Meredith Goldstein

Madeleine Albright

Frank Deford

Music, Culture, and Politics: The Influence of Fela Kuti

Mary Jo Salter & Stephen Kampa

Amy Nathan

A Smorgasbord of Tasty Tales

Sonia Sanchez and Tony Medina

Tavis Smiley

Justin Martin

Poetry-Writing Workshop : Go Global

Poetry-Writing Workshop : Learn the Rules (and Then Break 'Em)

Poetry-Writing Workshop : Make a Joyful Noise

Where There's Smoke…There's Dragons!

Navigating the 1940 Census

Justin Jones-Fosu

Fran Allen McKinney

Dorothy Wickenden

Dale Carpenter

Jane Satterfield, Ned Balbo, Virginia Crawford and Sam Schmidt

Jean H. Baker

Peggielene Bartels

International Women's History Month Literary Festival

Salon Concert: Early Music

Chris Matthews

Jonathan Bloom

James H. Cone

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Rebecca T. Alpert

Vincent Carretta

Nancy L. Cohen

Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey

Sharon Ewell Foster

Robert Kanigel

Ron Tanner

Clarinda Harriss and Bruce Sager

From Fortune to Henrietta Lacks and Beyond

Salon Concert: AM/PM Saxophone Quartet

Health First! The Black Woman's Wellness Guide

Gary Marcus

Harry A. Ezratty

Tyson D. King-Meadows

Donna Britt

Arthur Magida

Gregory Gibson Kenney

Jim Lehrer

Valzhyna Mort & Ishion Hutchinson

Salon Concert: Adam Kolbe Jones

Jamie Cat Callan

Christopher Hitchens

Peter Tomsen

Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?

Salon Concert: Solomon Eichner

An Afternoon of Poetry

Tennis, Everyone

Salon Concert: Ella's Umbrella

Salon Concert: Jeremiah Baker

David O. Stewart

Alondra Nelson

Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

Bob Luke

Larry Doyle

Satchel Paige

Neil Lanctot and Rob Ruck

Larry McMurtry

Lucia Greenhouse

If It Ain't Got That Swing: Black Baseball and Music in the Jim Crow Era

Larry Tye

Lester K. Spence

R. Tripp Evans

Life Rolls On, One Day at a Time

Breaking the Barriers

Dorothy Bailey

Nathaniel Philbrick

How to Pay for College

Adam Goodheart

Unconscious Bias

Miss Representation

Gil Sandler

Theodore M. Vestal

McKay Jenkins

Douglas L. Frost

Do White Americans Get Better Health Care than People of Color?

Michael Dirda

Sally H. Jacobs

Peter Mallios

Gus Russo

Dhani Jones

Ben Mezrich

Cameron McWhirter

Town Hall Meeting with Elizabeth Warren

Tayari Jones

Elijah Anderson

Wendy Kopp

Sandra Steingraber

Lynne Olson

Eddie Brown

Get Fit Families!

A Tribute To Manning Marable

Ralph Nader

Del Quentin Wilber

The rapper Prodigy

Andrei Codrescu

Charles Ogletree

Danielle Evans

Jaimy Gordon

Mark Osteen

Hands on the Freedom Plow

Weathering the Storm in Tough Economic Times!

Hampton Sides

Kristie Miller

Haiti Noir

International Women's History Month - Literary Festival

Daniel Sharfstein

Senator Barbara Mikulski

The Life and Times of the Honorable Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

Classic Sounds of New Orleans

Dr. Ira Berlin

Publishing Black

Dr. Lawrence P. Jackson

Jacqueline Edelberg

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Isabel Wilkerson

Shiori (Kathleen Hellen)

Margaret Haviland Stansbury

Frances N. Beckles

An Afternoon of Poetry

Bernice L. McFadden

Susan Fales-Hill

Jimmy Heath

Bill German

How to Pay for College

Pat Conroy

Truth and Reconciliation

Garry Wills

Dinaw Mengestu

Amy Goodman

Leonard T. Miller

Sandra Evans Falconer

Eugene Robinson

Jean McGarry

Dr. Sheri Parks

Ben Mezrich

David Plouffe

David Rakoff

Paul Reyes

Terry McMillan

Maryland CASH Campaign

Baltimore CASH Campaign

Frank Deford

Lucie Snodgrass

Colleen Aycock

Cartoonist Nicole Hollander

A Tribute to Lucille Clifton (1936 - 2010)

Why Can't Grandma Read? Intergenerational Illiteracy in Baltimore

Novella Carpenter

Pam Grier

Dr. Hubert G. Locke

Wes Moore

Full Moon on K Street

Ronald C. White, Jr.

Thomas J. Espenshade

Howell S. Baum

Is Justice Possible in a Race Biased Society?

Reading by Maryland State Poet Laureate

New and Novel

Poetry Readings

Michelle Alexander and Paul Butler

Antero Pietila

Jabari Asim

Dr. John A. Rich

International Women's History Month Literary Festival

Ted Venetoulis

Jerald Walker

Elisa New

Christopher Corbett

Neil Sheehan

Alexandra Natapoff

Grant Wahl

Cave Canem Poets

Alison Kahn and Peggy Fox

How Does White America Talk About Race?

Deborah Owens

How to Pay for College

Ariel Sabar

Josh Weil

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Kalman R. Hettleman

Fred Emil Katz

Dr. Barry C. Black

Vic Carter

Taylor Branch

How Race Affects Our Classrooms - Beverly Daniel Tatum and David Hornbeck

L. T. Woody

Mencken Day Lecture - Dr. Michael Kazin

Do We Still Need to Talk About Race? - Ben Jealous and Gerald Torres

Byron Pitts

Talking About Race NOW - Gwen Ifill and Sherrilyn A. Ifill

Leonard Pitts

Felicia Snoop Pearson

Nonprofits Thinking Like Businesses

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Michael Pollan

Steve Luxenberg

Chuck Palahniuk

Jill Jonnes

Qaisra Shahraz

Junot Diaz

Marita Golden

Achy Obejas and Robert Arellano

Robert Roper

Peter Schechter

Carl Yastrzemski Talks about Himself and Youth Hitting Part 2

Carl Yastrzemski Talks about Himself and Youth Hitting Part 1

Paul Blair Talks about Playing the Outfield

Brooks Robinson Talks about Playing 3rd Base

Mark Belanger Talks about Playing SS

Bobby Grich Talks about Playing 2nd Base

Boog Powell Talks about Playing 1st Base

Earl Williams Talks about Pitching

Dave McNally Talks about Pitching

Jim Palmer Talks about Pitching

Laura Lippman

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Michael Bart

Carole Boston Weatherford

Helene Cooper

Randall Kennedy

Annette Gordon-Reed

Stephen Whitman

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Tavis Smiley

Vaccines

How to Read to Your Child

Author Elaine F. Weiss

Money Matters - Predatory Lending

Money Matters - Checking Accounts

Money Matters - Kids and Finance

An Evening with Nancy Pelosi

Money Matters - Smail Business Banking

Money Matters - Mortgages

Safety Awareness - Household Hazards

Safety Awareness - Personal Safety

Dr. P. M. Forni

Safety Awareness - Carbon Monoxide

Safety Awareness - Fire Protection

Money Matters - Banking Basics

Money Matters - Credit Reports and Identity Theft

Money Matters - Money, Debt and Credit Cards

Michael Olesker - CityLit Festival

Actor Hill Harper

Author C. Fraser Smith

Author Connie Willis

Baltimore's Literati

Author Ben Carson

Author Gary Marcus

Author Michael Kinsley

Author Nathan McCall

Ernest Hardy

Michael Collier

Is skipping breakfast a good way to lose weight?

Does drinking milk cause phlegm, and should I avoid it when I have a cold?

I’m eating healthy foods. Why am I not losing weight?

Top 3 hints for avoiding overeating

First bite and last bite theories

Author Esther Iverem

Rethinking the Concept of Dieting

A 1972 recording of an interview with Vivien Thomas

Author Doris Kearns Goodwin

Author Deborah Mathis

Author Cora Daniels

Flu Clinic Interview

CALLALOO: Celebrating 30 Years

Writers LIVE at the Library - Garrison Keillor

Playin' o' the Green - 1: Wild Mountain Thyme

Playin' o' the Green - 2: Planxty Fanny Power

Playin' o' the Green - 3: Give Me Your Hand / Halting March

Playin' o' the Green - 4: Rights of Man

Playin' o' the Green - 5: Denis Murphy's Polka

Playin' o' the Green - 6: Moonlight In Mayo

Playin' o' the Green - 7: Irish Washerwoman