Friday 4/15: City Lit Books hosts the first Sheer Margins Poetry and Prose Open Mic Night. 6 p.m.
Monday 4/18: Party on, people! Essay Fiesta begins at 7 p.m. at The Book Cellar.
Tuesday 4/19: Katie Hartsock and student Megan Pan join Rosanna Warren and student Tim DeMay for April’s Open Door Reading. Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 4/20: Lookingglass Theatre Company presents selected scenes from Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding. Poetry Foundation, 12:30 p.m.
City Lit Books welcomes Josh Rosenthal, author of The Record Store of the Mind. 6:30 p.m.
Local Author Night: Poetry Edition! The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
The History of Great Things author Elizabeth Crane sits down with Megan Stielstra at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 4/21: Bernadette Mayer talks to Jennifer Karmin and Stephanie Anderson about Memory. Poetry Foundation, 12 p.m.
Jessica Knoll discusses her book, Luckiest Girl Alive, at The Book Cellar. 7 p.m.
Christine Sneed (Paris, He Said) and Grace Tiffany (Gunpowder Percy) read from their respective recently published novels. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
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