Friday 4/10: Head to Hideout for The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer. This month’s installment welcomes guests David Axelrod, Sarah Spain, Craig Benzine, and Mick Jenkins. 9 p.m., $15.
Saturday 4/11: BYOB to Women & Children First for the re-launch of Sappho’s Salon! Brand new hosts Liz Baudler and Eileen Tull perform alongside poet Niki Gee and comedian Lynne Roberts. $7-10, 7 p.m.
Monday 4/13: The Poetry Foundation screens The End of the Night Stick: Confronting Police Brutality in Chicago as part of an effort to teach about the city’s history of police violence. A panel of poets and organizers respond to the documentary, which contains graphic descriptions of torture (viewer discretion advised). 11 a.m.
Tuesday 4/14: Jam on the Vine author LaShonda Katrice Barnett reads from her novel at Women & Children First, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 4/15: Linda Gates leads Northwestern University theater students in Anthem for Doomed Youth, a performance of written works produced during World War I. The Poetry Foundation, 2 p.m.
Cate Dicharry reads from her first novel, The Fine Art of Fucking Up, at City Lit Books. 6:30 p.m.
Get gloriously gutsy at Powell’s Bookstore, 7 p.m.
Join Rebecca Makkai (The Hundred-Year House, The Borrower) in conversation with Ann Packer (The Children’s Crusade) at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 4/16: Editors Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, and Quraysh Ali Lansana celebrate the release of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop at the Poetry Foundation. Co-sponsored with Young Chicago Authors and Haymarket Books, 2 p.m.