Saturday 3/7: The Chicago Author’s Club chats with poets Hannah Gamble and Brian Russell at Open Books. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., free.
The Danny’s Reading Series takes a field trip to Sector 2337. Olivia Cronk (author of Skin Horse) and Aaron Kunin (author of Cold Genius) read at 7 p.m., free.
Erica Bernheim reads at Myopic Books as the featured author for the store’s semi-weekly poetry series. 7 p.m., free.
Tuesday 3/10: Chicago writer Jac Jemc joins this month’s Open Book Club to talk about her latest collection of short stories, A Different Bed Every Time. Open Books, 6 p.m.
Wednesday 3/11: Catch Trevor Winkfield’s Pageant before it closes next week. Poetry Foundation president Robert Polito leads a gallery talk and conversation with the artist himself at The Poet’s Table. 12 p.m., free with RSVP.
James McGrath Morris visits Harold Washington Library to discuss his new book, Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press. 6 p.m., free.
Writer, choreographer, and dancer Ian Spencer Bell performs Geography Solos, a collection of three short works that center around dislocation, as well as a new (currently untitled) piece rooted in memories of his childhood home. The Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Thursday 3/12: City Lit Books welcomes Andra Watkins, author of Not Without My Father: One Womans 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace. Watkins will read from, discuss, and sign copies of her recently published memoir at 6 p.m.
Author of 20 collections of poetry and 2 books of prose, writer Robert Adamson currently holds the Chair in Poetry at Sydney’s University of Technology and has most recently published Net Needle. Join him for this month’s Poetry off the Shelf. Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Former Army Ranger and current anti-war activist Rory Fanning heads to Women & Children First to read from his book, Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger’s Journey Out of the Military and Across America. 7:30 p.m., free.