November 15, 2024
Join 2022 Marquette Writer of the Year B. G. Bradley and his friends for an evening of music, stories, poetry, and skits sure to make you laugh, cry, clap, and sing for those big moments in our lives. The show features two-time U. P. Poet Laureate Marty Achatz; celebrated musicians Linda Smith and Seamus Collins (Big Lake Acoustic), actress Jacque Love, and special guest stars The Make-Believe Spurs.
November 8, 2024
Bigfoot is on the loose at PWPL! Join acclaimed two-time U.P. Poet Laureate Marty Achatz for the release of his new collection of poems, a compendium of natural and unnatural astonishments. Follow the footprints, and Marty Achatz may just make you a believer in the greatest mystery of all: Love with a capital "L.”
November 4, 2024
In this episode, Andrea Ingmire, Director of Peter White Public Library, discusses elections, coronations, and fluffy reads. Andrea and Marty's Book Recommendations: "The Mighty Red" by Louise Erdrich--Andrea "Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange--Marty
October 30, 2024
Peter White Public Library hosts a blues concert sponsored by the Marquette Area Blues Society. This month’s band: Under the Radar. This event would not be possible without Marquette Area Blues Society, The Carrol Paul Memorial Trust for Peter White Public Library and the Friends of PWPL.
October 29, 2024
Acclaimed Michigan writer Jeff Vande Zande is back at PWPL with his first foray into gothic horror—The Dance of the Rotten Sticks. The novel centers on Isaac Fletcher, a recent widower, who moves his family of three children to Orphan Island where strange things start to happen at the purportedly haunted abandoned orphanage.