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We’ll develop poems, explore craft alongside our featured poet Lee Herrick (California Poet Laureate).
Calling all writers! The Glendale Poet Laureate Program invites you on Saturday, January 11, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM at Glendale Central Library Auditorium for the next installment of our workshop-reading series. We’ll develop poems, explore craft alongside our featured poet Lee Herrick (California Poet Laureate).
Learn more and submit poems for Jewel City Review volume 2 at eGlendaleLAC.org/poetlaureate. Deadline: February 21, 2025.
PARKING
Visitors to the Glendale Central Library receive 3-hour FREE parking across Harvard Street at the Marketplace parking structure with validation at the service desk. Accessible parking is available on the east side of the building. For additional information about this event, please contact Central Library at (818)548-2021 or send us an email at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov.
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Performance | Classes & Workshops |
TAGS: | Workshop | Teens | Reading | Poet Laureate | Glendale Central Library | Central Library | Adults |
Established in 1906.
Library services in Glendale were first provided in 1906. The women of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated pool room at Third and E (Wilson and Everett) Streets with seventy books, soon supplemented by a State Traveling Library of fifty more, and served a population of 1,186.
In 1907, the City Trustees passed Ordinance 53 which established and supported a library which "...shall be forever free to the inhabitants and nonresident taxpayers of the City of Glendale..." The first year the library had 251 books, 165 registered patrons, and a budget of $248.88.
In 1913, a Carnegie grant of $12,500 made possible the construction of the main library at Kenwood and Fifth (Harvard Street). The building was completed and dedicated November 13, 1914.
