This 12-voice a cappella chorus celebrates Spring with motets and madrigals and other short songs from the 16th to the 20th century.

Participants share a short piece of their own writing and/or a short selection from a book they have read in a relaxed atmosphere. Francesca Benson will lead these no-pressure sessions, where the focus will be on the pleasure of reading and writing in community.
Tuesday, March 4, 10 a.m. Quiet Room

In this highly acclaimed motion picture based on Harper Lee's semi-autobiographical novel, 6year-old Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is growing up in the Depression era of the early 1930s in a small Southern town Her father, the town lawyer, is a wise, quiet man with a great sense of justice who defends a poor, black man accused of rape.

Screening and discussion of New Jersey Network documentary on the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. Post-screening panel features authors and historians Thomas Fleming, Ed Belding and Mark Lender. Part of 1783 observance. Co-sponsored by the library, Princeton Battlefield Society, New Jersey Network and the Historical Society of Princeton.

The library's subscription to Alexander Street Press makes available 170,000 tracks of music. Find out how you can listen without charge over the Internet through speaker or headphoneseither in the library or from home (with your library card number). The three online libraries available are a Classical Music Library, the Smithsonian Global Sound and African American Song. Music in these three libraries ranges from medieval to contemporary to avante-garde and from folk to holiday tunes and world music from around the globe as well as blues, jazz and gospel.

Alicia Ostriker and Richard Tayson
A prizewinning poet and critic, Ostriker was a finalist for the National Book Award for "The Crack in Everything" and "The Little Space" and has published 11 volumes of poetry, most recently "No Heaven." She is the author of "Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America" and other books on poetry and on the Bible. She is a founder of U.S. 1 Poets Co-Op.
Tayson's most recent book of verse, "The World Underneath" was released this year. His first book of poetry, "The Apprentice of Fever," won the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Nightsun, Michigan Quarterly Review, Bloom, Kenyon Review and have been anthologized in "American Poetry: The Next Generation," "I Do / I Don't: Queers on Marriage," " Poetry Nation," "Jugular Defences" and "The Best of Prairie Schooner."