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The Mixed Review is a forum, led by Librarian Carolyn Larson, to talk about the meaning and impact of books we have read, to discuss ...
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ALL POETS AND POETRY LOVERS INVITED!! The focus of this meeting will, again, be to share a prose poem of choice in progress (poets will ...
Read More Kauai “Live Poets’ Society” Upcoming Meeting

A talk by Stephen Salel, the Robert F. Lange Foundation Curator of Japanese Art at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Interested in the history of ...
Read More Visual Feast: 1,800 Years of Japanese Painting

Join us for this talk story on the voyages of the Polynesians to Hawaii with Captain Kiko and see his Wa`akulua double hull canoe in ...
Read More Talk Story with Captain Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa

As an artist, Mayumi has been creating Goddess images and writing about Goddesses for 50 years. She asks us to appreciate the female body and ...
Read More Goddess of the Rainbow: A talk with artist Mayumi Oda

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the ...
Read More Spring Movie: Leave No Trace

In lieu of storytime this month, a storytime packet will be available to you and your child in the children’s area. Each storytime will have ...
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Engineers Week is February 18 to 23rd and we are celebrating with a FAMILY-FRIENDLY event, the Engineering Bash!  Meet some of the island’s most talented ...
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April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate we are reading poems by the American author Wendell Berry. Any poems.  Wendell Berry is a writer ...
Read More Library Book Club: Wendell Berry’s New Collected Poems

Set in Honolulu during the late spring of 2007, Rodney Morales’s For a Song melds actual events into an edgy detective novel that evokes contemporary Hawai`i as ...
Read More Library Book Club: For a Song by Rodney Morales