Sunday 9/4: As always, the Uptown Poetry slam is going down at The Green Mill. Open mic starts at 7 p.m. followed by the slam itself. $7, 21+.
Tuesday 9/6: Head to Quenchers Saloon for Wit Rabbit 58! Readers include Zoe Zolbrod, C. Russell Price, Michael Robins, and Emily Rose. 7 p.m., free.
Wednesday 9/7: Got the afternoon free? The Poetry Foundation’s Pop-Up Poetry series at the Art Institute of Chicago continues with a reading from Emily Calvo. The Modern Wing’s Griffin Court, 12 p.m. Free for members or with museum admission.
Nicholson Baker discusses Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. He will be joined in conversation by Bill Ayers. Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 6 p.m., free.
Visit Women & Children First for a poetry reading, Q&A, and singing with Chinaka Hodge, author of Dated Emcees. 7:30 p.m., free.
Thursday 9/8: Head to City Lit Books for a lecture, performance, and open mic hosted by the University of Chicago’s Writer’s Studio. Sarah Terez Rosenblum will present a mini-lecture and Mary Fons will be the featured performer, followed by the open mic. 6 p.m., free.
Ronald H. Balson, finalist for the 2014 Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction, reads from his new novel Karolina’s Twins. The Book Cellar, 7 p.m., free.
Join Neil Steinberg as he reads from his new book Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery, written with Sara Bader. Steinberg will discuss the medicinal power of poetry, and how the book uses excerpts from poems, novels, letters, memoirs, movies, and songs to guide readers through the maze that is addiction. The Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m., free.
Christine Reilly reads from her novel Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday at Women & Children First. 7:30 p.m., free.
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