Friday 2/20: Bad Grammar Theater begins at 6 p.m. and runs until 9 p.m. at Powell’s Bookstore University Village. Come and go as you please!
Gerber/Hart Library’s BTQ Book Group welcomes Carol Anshaw to discuss her book, Aquamarine. 7-9 p.m., free.
Allison Gruber reads from You’re Not Edith, her unconventional collection of autobiographical essays, at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m., free.
Saturday 2/21: Speaking of Women & Children First—stop by the store’s grand re-opening from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. for an afternoon of storytelling, live music, and light snacks.
The Poetry Foundation Library is open for Special Saturday Hours. You can also sign up for Forms and Features, a creative workshop moderated by library staff.
Catch Danielle Susi for a poetry reading at Myopic Books, 7 p.m.
Sunday 2/22: This month, the Marble Room Reading Series welcomes Danielle Susi, Martin Seay, Erika L. Sanchez, Gwynn Fulcher, and Jim Davis. Uncharted Books, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
City Lit Books hosts J.F. Riordan, author of North of the Tension Line, for a reading that begins at 3 p.m.
Erica Barnes directs an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad with original music by Joshua Dumas. The Poetry Foundation, 3 p.m., as well as Monday and Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Ami Polonsky, author of Gracefully Grayson, reads at Women & Children First. 4 p.m., free.
Tuesday 2/24: Journalist Alex Kotlowitz and novelist Maaza Mengiste discuss the writing of fiction at “When Fiction Tells the Truest Truth.” Northwestern University’s Annie May Swift Hall, 6 p.m.
In Brief Book Club is born! The group, which will focus on short stories and personal essays, explores Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion at their inaugural meeting. City Lit Books, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 2/25: Food and feminism (and fun)– your $20 ticket to Our Kitchens, Ourselves includes food and beer at Revolution Brewing. The panel discussion, co-hosted by Graze, Render quarterly, and Women & Children First, begins at 7 p.m.
Thursday 2/26: Self-Publishers of Chicago (SPOC) serves up “broken candy hearts and bitter tears” at their BYOB evening of love stories gone wrong. Performers will be selected from submissions to SPOC’s Worst Breakup Ever zine. Uncharted Books, 7:30 p.m.
Join Michael Miles at the Poetry Foundation for protest, passion, politics, and poetry: From Senegal to Seeger. 7 p.m.
Noah Berlatsky discusses his book, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948. 7:30 p.m., Women & Children First.