She also enjoys playing jazz with the Harvey Diamond Quintet which has been featured on WGBH.

Kayaian runs the chamber music program for Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and performs as soloist and chamber musician throughout Chicago, Miami, Boston and London. Previously she won a three-year fellowship with the New World Symphony where she performed as principal cellist under the baton of Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Kayaian currently performs with the New England String Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Key West Symphony and others and teaches at the Longy School of Music.

Yau, a native of Hong Kong , is an active collaborative pianist. She has been heard at Jordan Hall, the Chinese Cultural Institute, UCLA Song Festival, Hong Kong Government House, Taipei National Concert Hall, and Museum of Arts in Puerto Rico. A founding member of the New Piano Quartet, she is currently on the faculty of the New School of Music and is staff accompanist at Boston Conservatory.

In honor of National Poetry Month and National Library Week April 10 - 16, the Library will present its 32nd Annual Evening of Poetry, sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Franz Wright, Diana Der-Hovanessian and Nancy Kassell will read their latest poetry on Tuesday, April 12, 7:00PM. Refreshments will be served. This festival and the year-long series are coordinated by Doug Holder, publisher of Ibbetson Street Press.

Wright’s most recent collection of poetry is Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, which received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. His other collections include The Beforelife and Ill Lit: Selected and New Poems. Among his honors are the PEN/Voelcker Award for poetry as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Der-Hovanessian is the president of the New England Poetry Club and the author of a number of poetry collections including: The Burning Glass and Any Day Now: Poems. Her work has appeared in such publi-cations as AGNI, The New York Times, Paris Review and others. She works as a visiting poet and guest lecturer on American poetry, Armenian poetry in translation and the literature of human rights at various universities and has received awards from the NEA, PSA, National Writers Union and others.

Kassell was a semifinalist in the Kenyon Review 2002 Poetry Contest. Her poems appear in Family Reunion:Poems about Parenting Grown Children and Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics. Other work has been published in the journals Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Feminist Review, Salamander and Kalliope. She has been vice president of the Writers’ Room of Boston.

Join Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of “Masterpiece Theatre” and “Mystery!” as she gives a behind-the-scenes look at these two venerable programs, illustrated with video excerpts from the shows. Eaton will speak about how she makes programming choices, preview the new “Miss Marple” series starting in April and share anecdotes about working with Diana Rigg, Helen Mirren, Robert Redford and others. The talk will take place at the Library on Thursday, April 14, at 7:30PM.

Eaton’s distinguished tenure as executive producer of these classic shows has earned her the official recognition of Queen Elizabeth II, with an honorary OBE (Officer, Order of the British Empire). Since taking over the helm of “M.T.” and “Mystery!” in 1985, she has been responsible for such high-profile titles as House of Cards, Prime Suspect, Moll Flanders, Inspector Morse, David Copperfield, Tony Hillerman’s Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time, The Forsyte Saga and Doctor Zhivago. She has accrued eleven Primetime Emmy

Awards, six International Emmy Awards, twelve Peabody Awards, a Golden Globe and two Academy Award nominations.

Her instinct to keep branching out with more contemporary stories, innovative scheduling, theatrical distribution, the “American Collection” and “American Mystery” specials, has won “Masterpiece Theatre” and “Mystery!” a new and more diverse audience.

This Newton resident was previously a science producer for the BBC World Service before coming to WGBH, where she began in arts radio and later produced television documentaries.

Renowned environmental author Bill McKibben will speak on “Looking for Hope in New England” at a special Green Decade Coalition event at the Library on Saturday, April 16, at 1:00PM. McKibben will reflect on his latest book, Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Region, Vermont’s Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondacks.

McKibben is a frequent writer on sustainability and an enthusiastic participant in the renewable-energy revolution. His writings have appeared in periodicals ranging from the New York Times to the Atlantic and Natural History. A former staff writer and author of hundreds of articles for the New Yorker, his first book was The End of Nature, a groundbreaking account of global environmental problems. More recently, he has written Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. He is scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Please bring a mug to the talk as refreshments will be served. Further information about Green Decade may be found at www.greendecade.org.

Perhaps the most surprising finding is the discovery that a small number of primitive genes led to the formation of fundamental organs and appendages in all animal forms. Evolution does not take place principally through the introduction of new genetic materials but rather through old genes learning new tricks. The fact that all animals share virtually identical genetic materials provides strong evidence that all animal forms are descended from a common ancestor. Evo devo changes our understanding of evolution, by demonstrating that it is a subtler, more sophisticated process than thought before.

Caroll is the ideal author to lead the curious on this intellectual adventure as he is the acknowledged leader of the field. A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, he is Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His seminal discoveries have been featured in Time and the New York Times as well as leading scientific journals.