Tuesday 9/8: Anne-Marie Fyfe (The House of Small Absences), Cahal Dallat (The Year of Not Dancing), and Jacquelyn Pope (Watermark) read from their respective collections at City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m.
CA Conrad talks about Exorcism: Reparative Rituals with the Poetic Blade for the Harriet Reading Series. Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 9/9: Michele Weldon reflects on Escape Points: A Memoir. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 9/10: Joe Meno launches Marvel and a Wonder at The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
Nicole Heaston, Laquita Mitchell, Michael Brown, Nicholas Phan, and Shannon McGinnis perform songs by Charles Ives, whose work was influenced strongly by Transcendentalism. The salon concert, partially sponsored by the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, also includes settings of Emily Dickinson’s poetry by Aaron Copland and Lee Hoiby. Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Women & Children First welcomes Ellen Bravo to discuss staff novel pick Again and Again. 7:30 p.m.
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