Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required. Hosted by staff. Join us for an afternoon of good company and lively discussion as we chat about this month's featured book--The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama. Please call or ask at the library to register. All programs subject to cancellation.
Open to ages up to 36 months, accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Enjoy an interactive program that promotes early learning and a happy heart and mind! Stories, songs, activities, plus social time for kids and caregivers alike!
. Guardians must remain present.
. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation
Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages up to 36 months, accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Enjoy an interactive program that promotes early learning and a happy heart and mind! Stories, songs, activities, plus social time for kids and caregivers alike!
. Guardians must remain present.
. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation
Open to kids of all ages. Registration required. Celebrate Poetry Month with us! Create a small poetry scroll or write a poem on a small slip of paper to carry around with you in your pocket throughout the day. We'll read some of the poems we choose out loud. We'll make extra poems and pass them along to friends and neighbors throughout the day. Poem in Your Pocket Day was initiated in April 2002 by the Office of the Mayor in New York City, in partnership with the city’s Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education. In 2008, the Academy of American Poets took the initiative to all fifty United States, encouraging individuals around the country to participate. On this day, people carry a poem with them in their pocket and read it out loud in open air spaces, to neighbors or friends. Poems can be shared through social media as well--don't forget to mention the library!
Guardians must remain present for children under 9.Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages up to 36 months, accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Enjoy an interactive program that promotes early learning and a happy heart and mind! Stories, songs, activities, plus social time for kids and caregivers alike!
. Guardians must remain present.
. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation
Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required, please call the branch.
April showers only bring May flowers if you plant the seeds. Join us to use scraps of recycled paper to create a vessel for orbs of seeds. You'll leave with a ball of seeds that can be tossed into the garden area to take root and bring you spring blooms. Art supplies provided. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation
Open to adults. Registration required. Join us for a chance to explore and discuss a variety of stories with fellow book lovers! April's selection is Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini. Register on-line or contact the library to sign up for the scheduled book talk. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages up to 36 months, accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Enjoy an interactive program that promotes early learning and a happy heart and mind! Stories, songs, activities, plus social time for kids and caregivers alike!
. Guardians must remain present.
. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation
Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required. Hosted by staff. Join us for an afternoon of good company and lively discussion as we chat about this month's featured book--Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts. Please call or ask at the library to register. All programs subject to cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required.Join us this Poetry Month for a reading from local poets Joel Dias-Porter and Peter Murphy. Peter E. Murphy's most recent book, Once Upon a Time You Lived in a Castle, a memoir about growing up in Wales and New York City, is forthcoming from Toplight Books. He is the founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University in Atlantic City where he runs workshops for writers and teachers in the US and abroad.
Joel Dias-Porter, a resident of Atlantic City, is self-unemployed but is rumored to gamble for a living. In his recent book, Ideas of Improvisation, Joel Dias Porter interrogates how the I & the I of the imaginary can appear perpendicular to the axis of the real. In addition to the expected body of words, Joel Dias-Porter improvises on the idea of the lyric by marooning text to create ghost poems that float above the page and add a new haiku-like dimension. Like the rook in brook, in Ideas of Improvisation we hear how Dias-Porter, a neurodiverse technician of the text, reformulates form to navigate the spectrum of possibility.
Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages up to 36 months, accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Join our costumed characters for a poetry saturated performance and animated reading from Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends (and more!). Story and play time with a whimsical twist! Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages up to 36 months, accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Enjoy an interactive program that promotes early learning and a happy heart and mind! Stories, songs, activities, plus social time for kids and caregivers alike!
. Guardians must remain present.
. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation
Open to adults. Registration required. It's winter in Brigantine and we're still here! Come out of hibernation once a week to write with us. Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change
