Upcoming Events

Join LBPL and The Shore Poets for the "It's a Shore Thing" Poetry Festival! Including Featured Readings, Open Mics, Flash Mob, Poetry Circles, Performance Poetry, Typewriter Poetry, Book Sales and more!

Calling all crocheters and knitters! 🧶✨

Join librarian/poet Nicole for this workshop.  Poetic journaling can transform everyday thoughts, emotions, and observations into something artistic and expressive.

Join Danielle Bertoli for this workshop.

Join Adriana Devers for this workshop.  Engage with themes of cultural heritage and the complexities of varied cultural experiences.

Reuniting the director, writer and stars of Forrest Gump, Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences

Published poet Judy Turek will explain how to self publish your original work. 

Hosted by Alan Semerdjian, Nassau County Poet Laureate and Deborah Hauser, Suffolk County Poet Laureate.
6:30pm sign up/7pm start

Join LBPL and The Shore Poets for the "It's a Shore Thing" Poetry Festival! Including Featured Readings, Open Mics, Flash Mob, Poetry Circles, Performance Poetry, Typewriter Poetry, Book Sales and more!

This short film showcases 12 Long Island poets and the thriving, energetic Long Island Poetry scene.

Katie Mitchell, experienced singer/songwriter and lyricist, will delve into the similarities and differences between writing poetry and writing lyrics for songs.

Relax and meld your body and mind in this calming yin yoga class infused with poetry read by Sabrina Perrino as the yoga postures are held.

Children will go back in time to the story of exodus and discover how Passover is celebrated today through giant storytelling, a themed sensory bin and a Seder plate craft! Mark your calendars and join the festive fun!

Join Judy Turek for Flash Mob Poetry, the most comfortable poetry reading on the planet.

Relax and meld your body and mind in this calming yin yoga class infused with poetry read by Sabrina Perrino as the yoga postures are held.

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly the Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books

Build strength and flexibility along with a calmer mind in this accessible yoga for every body with Miriam Abrahams. Using a combination of seated and standing positions, you’ll learn balance, breathing, and focus.

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly the Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly the Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

If you're a writer and want to join other local writers serious about the craft, then come join our Writers' Circle on Monday from 11am to 1pm! 

The Great Books Discussion Group is an in-person program taking place on the 2nd floor of Long Beach Public Library. Physical copies will be available at the front desk of the Library two weeks before each discussion.

After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.