Friday 9/25: The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography releases their new anthology, The View From Here: Stories about Chicago Neighborhoods, with an introduction by Patricia Ann McNair. City Lit Books, 6:30 p.m.
Tyler Paterson celebrates the publication of Dark Satellites. The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
Join Sara Henning, Kristy Bowen, and Staci R. Schoenfeld for An Evening of Poetry at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 9/26: The Poetry Foundation Library opens for Special Saturday Hours from 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Local organizations in Wicker Park and West Town team up for Lit Day.
ChaVohn Nakia shares part of the second installment of her crime novel, Cabrini Green. Uncharted Books, 3 p.m.
Sunday 9/27: City Lit Theater presents excerpted readings from the top challenged books of 2014 in honor of Banned Books Week. Books on the Chopping Block, times and locations vary.
Monday 9/28: Frankiem Mitchell debuts poems from his upcoming chapbook, Eighth Phoenix, at Mental Graffiti’s open mic. $5 suggested donation, Cafe Mustache, 8 p.m.
Tuesday 9/29: Musicologist Don Michael Randel leads an interpretation of Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe, based on text from Heinrich Heine’s Lyrisches Intermezzo. Co-sponsored with Lyric Unlimited at the Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 9/30: Poet Saul Williams reads excerpts of his most recent collection, US(a.), at The Book Cellar. 5 p.m.
Molly Harris, Julie Jurgens, Mary Runkle, and Ines Bellina tackle topic “Mean Girls” at live-lit show Miss Spoken. $5 suggested donation at Gallery Cabaret, 7 p.m.
Thursday 10/1: Poetry off the Shelf welcomes William Archila (The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology) and David Campos (Furious Dusk). Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Ms. Magazine founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin reads from Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m.
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