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Upcoming HPL Events November 2014
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Thanksgiving Thursday, November 27, 2014 Friday, November 28, 2014 Christmas Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Thursday, December 25, 2014 - Central Library & the Julia Ideson Building will be closed for HVAC maintenance December 26-28, 2014.
New Year's Wednesday, December 31, 2014 (close at 6 PM) Thursday, January 1, 2015
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4th Annual Season’s Readings Celebrate the winter season with family-friendly, literary-inspired programs at your library! A Wonderland of Holiday Fun!!! Saturday, December 6, 2014 Storytime with Author-Animator Divya Srinivasan Wander into the forest then explore the deep ocean to meet Little Owl and shy Octopus. Srinivasan’s work has appeared in New Yorker magazine, This American Life, and on the Sundance Channel. 2 PM Julia Ideson Building | Norma Meldrum Children’s Room 550 McKinney St., 77002 Music for the Season Houston Youth Symphony presents string and brass chamber music ensembles performing classical and holiday favorites. Aurora Picture Show presents Reel Reads: A Popcorn Kids Screening Curated by Liz Shepherd, Director of the annual Children’s Film Festival Seattle. Celebrate the written word with a collection of animated short films that are based on books or shine a spotlight on reading. Expect everything from adventures on the high seas to cozier tales of mice and bunnies! Screening made possible by Reliant, an NRG Company. For a list of Season's Readings programs happening at HPL neighborhood libraries visit:
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Public Poetry Fall Series 2014 Saturday, December 6, 2014 | 2 PM Central Library, 4th Floor Program Place | 500 McKinney, 77002 832-393-1313 Amy King’s "I Want to Make You Safe" (Litmus Press) was one of Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011; John Ashbery described one of its poems as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” Her next work, "The Missing Museum," is forthcoming in 2014 from Kore Press. King teaches creative writing at Nassau Community College and works with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Michael D. Snediker is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Houston. His most recent book of poems, "The Apartment of Tragic Appliances," was published this past summer by Punctum Books. He’s also the author of two chapbooks, "Bourdon" (White Rabbit Press) and Nervous Pastoral (dove|tail press), as well as " Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions" (University of Minnesota Press) Regina Vigil is the program coordinator at Writers in the Schools (WITS). Before that, she worked at Lawndale Art Center and photographed day-old babies in hospitals. She helped found the University of Houston’s Boldface Conference and an undergraduate literary magazine, "Glass Mountain," where she now serves on the Board of Advisors. Her poems have appeared in "Indiana Review" and "Gigantic Sequins." She is launching the pillow-making enterprise Narwhal Sonata. Chris Wise is a poet and novelist. His recent publications include " Nerve Cowboy," " Blue Collar Review," and "Texas Beat Poets Issue," and he has been a regular contributor to "Cowboys and Indians Magazine." He is currently writing a book for Absey & Company, and hosts an internet television show on KH-TV.com called "The Crawl." He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, earned an English degree from Texas A&M, and currently lives in Houston.
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