library events

Celebrate Poetry Month with a Reading Featuring Six Local Poets

Event Type: Adults Age Group(s): Adults Date: 4/30/2019 Start Time: 7:00 PM End Time: 8:30 PM Description:  Six local poets – Esme Franklin, Benjamin Aleshire, Elizabeth Gross, Brad Richard, Benjamin Morris, and Cassie Pruyn – will discuss and read from their works at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 30, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. This event … Celebrate Poetry Month with a Reading Featuring Six Local Poets

Albert Woodfox – SOLITARY

Join us for a special evening downtown at the main New Orleans Public Library with Albert Woodfox presenting SOLITARY, the extraordinary life story of a man who – despite spending four decades in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell 23 hours a day in Angola Prison for a crime he did not commit – inspired fellow prisoners and … Albert Woodfox – SOLITARY