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POET LAUREATE PROGRAM PRESENTS A POETRY WORKSHOP-READING
Writing Off the Cuff: Poetry, Process & Ease
Saturday, November 07
11:00am - 2:00pm
Reading, writing, workshopping, discovery.
Calling all writers! The Glendale Poet Laureate Program invites you for the next installment of our workshop-reading series, led by Glendale’s new Poet Laureate, Tina Demirdjian. This workshop includes demonstrations by these “typewriter” poets in how they write poetry “on the spot” using a typewriter. Typewriters will be available to use during the workshop. We'll develop poems and explore craft alongside featured poets Brian Sonia-Wallace (Poet Laureate of Los Angeles), Elizabeth Nail (Typewriters Anonymous, Phillip T. Nails (Typewriters Anonymous). This workshop is free and open to the public, and all levels of experience and language backgrounds are welcome!
Glendale Central Library
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.
