There will be a reading of The Nutcracker Ballet geared to young children, accompanied by costumed dancers from the Commonwealth Ballet Company acting out some of the parts, at the Lincoln Public Library on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 11 a.m. to noon. All ages are invited.
Sylva Boyadjian-Haddad
On Sunday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. in the Tarbell Room, the library presents an afternoon of poetry with Sylva Boyadjian-Haddad, a professor of English and comparative literature, emerita and a poet, writer, and translator. Now a resident of Concord, NH, she was born in Beirut of Armenian parents. Boyadjian-Haddad is the founder and editor-in-chief of Entelechy International/A Journal of Contemporary Ideas. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, and she has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize.
Julia Glass
Author and Lincoln native Julia Glass will give a book talk and signing at the library on Monday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Tarbell Room. Glass, who won the National Book Award in 2002 for Three Junes, will speak on her writing and growing up in Lincoln.
Both author events are sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Public Library.
