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Calling all writers! The Glendale Poet Laureate Program invites you on Saturday, December 13, 2025 for the next installment of our workshop-reading series.
We'll develop poems and explore craft alongside featured poets Sehba Sarwar (Altadena Co-Poet Laureate), Nancy Miller Gomez (Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate), Jen Siraganian (Los Gatos Poet Laureate, 2021-2023).
This workshop is free and open to the public, and all levels of experience and language backgrounds are welcome!
Learn more at eglendalelac.org/poetlaureate
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 | Classes & Workshops | Activities |
TAGS: | Special Event | Poet Laureate | 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.
