Friday 1/29: Self-proclaimed “queer super-shero of color” Anastacia Renee Tolbert shares excerpts of Chapbook 26 at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 1/30: Michael Harvey (The Governer’s Wife), Elizabeth Heiter (Seized), and Andrew Grant (False Positive) host A Thrilling! Discussion at City Lit Books. 5:30 p.m.
Zlumber Party 2016! Quimby’s Bookstore, 9:30 p.m. until Sunday at 6 a.m.
Sunday 1/31: Sunday Salon features Curbside Splendor authors Halle Butler, Dasha Kelly, Dave Reidy, and Tony Fitzpatrick. Riverview Tavern, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 2/3: Pop-Up Poetry! Eric Elshtain reads at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of a series that marks the reopening of the Contemporary Collection. The Modern Wing’s Griffin Court, 12 p.m.
Michael J. Miles presents The Camerado Suite, a four-movement composition for banjo, chamber orchestra, and jazz choir that includes lines from Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road.” Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
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