Maryland Libraries Together Presents: Writers Live! George Takei

FREE. Registration required for Zoom Webinar. No registration required for Facebook Live.

Register for the event here. Registration opens at 9am on September 14 and closes September 29 at 12pm. 

George Takei will be in conversation with Steven Leyva about his life and work. The program is presented as part of the Maryland Libraries Together series.

George Takei is known around the world for his founding role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise, in the acclaimed television series Star Trek. But Takei's story goes where few stories have gone before. From a childhood spent with his family wrongfully imprisoned in Japanese American internment camps during World War II, to becoming one of the country's leading figures in the fight for social justice, LGBTQ rights, and marriage equality, Mashable named Takei the #1 most-influential person on Facebook, with 10.4 million likes and 2.8 million followers on Twitter.

Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 2 Bridges Review, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, Vinyl, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and author of The Understudy’s Handbook which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an assistant professor.

Order copies of George Takei's books from the Ivy Bookshop.

ASL interpretation will be available for attendees.

Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.

Dial-In Information

RSVP for the Zoom Webinar link. The conversation will also be broadcast on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Facebook page. It will not be available after the live broadcast. Click here for the Live video library.