Notable Online: 8/1–8/7
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Angel Nafis
Notable Online: 7/11–7/17
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 4/18–4/24
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 10/11–10/17
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shira Erlichman
Shira Erlichman discusses her debut poetry collection, ODES TO LITHIUM.
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Notable NYC: 10/12–10/18
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 10/5–10/11
Saturday 10/5: Kit Robinson and xtian w join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 10/6: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey discuss She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. Congregation Beth Elohim, 6 p.m., $33. Monday 10/7: Lilly Dancyger, Madeleine Barnes, Hilda Davis, and Emmy Favilla join the Pigeon […]
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Notable NYC: 9/28–10/4
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Notable NYC: 8/31–9/6
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 7/27–8/3
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/25–5/31
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/18–5/24
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 4/13–4/19
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 2/2–2/8
Saturday 2/2: Chia-Lun Chang and Lonely Christopher join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, $4:30 p.m., $5. Monday 2/4: Shomari Wills presents Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires, and talks with Samuel Freedman. Greenlight – Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free. Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel join the […]
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Notable NYC: 12/15–12/21
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Notable NYC: 9/29–10/5
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 8/4–8/10
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/12–5/18
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 4/14–4/20
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 10/28–11/3
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Saturday 5/27: Hossannah Asuncion and Che Gossett join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Tuesday 5/30: Samantha Irby presents her new essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (our May Book Club selection). Housing Works, 7 p.m., $20.
...moreNotable NYC: 4/8–4/14
Saturday 4/8: Chris Hayes presents A Colony in a Nation in conversation with Wesley Lowery. St. Joseph’s College, 6 p.m, $30. Claudia Rankine and Garnette Cadogan give the keynote address at the Focus Festival running on Saturday and Sunday. Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 7 p.m., $20. Julia Loktev and Sukhdev Sandhu join the Segue series. Zinc […]
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Saturday 3/18: Lisa Robertson and Uljana Wolf join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/19: Michelle Hogmire, Edward Barkin, Claudia Summers, and Matt Basillere celebrate contributions to KGB Bar Lit. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free. Ariel Francisco, Sally Wen Mao, Jayson P. Smith, Kymani M. Jade, Taylor Lannamann, Glynn Pogue, Halley Furlong-Mitchell, […]
...moreNotable Chicago: 2/10–2/16
Friday 2/10: The Odes for You tour, featuring Shira Erlichman and Angel Nafis, comes to Women & Children First! 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday 2/11: Sho Sugita reads from his translation of Spiral Staircase, the first definitive volume of Hirato Renkichi’s poems to appear in English. Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 3 p.m., free. Sunday 2/12: As always, […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico
The more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
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The Conversation: Angel Nafis, Safia Elhillo, and Elizabeth Acevedo
I don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
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Dear Reader, For the past year, we, Aziza Barnes and Nabila Lovelace, The Founders of The Conversation, debated how we could create space for folk we love, whose work is critical, in the South. We had been living in New York, which is regarded as something of a safe haven for the Black writer. In the heat of […]
...moreNotable NYC: 12/12–12/18
Saturday 12/12: Diana Hamilton and Steve McCaffery join the Segue series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Many people read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Housing Works, 1 p.m., free. Brian Matthew Kim, Ann Podracky, Jolie Hale, and Jason N. Fischedick join the Oh, Bernice! reading series. Astoria Bookshop, 7 p.m., free. Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ailish […]
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The Rumpus and Electric Literature Present: It’s Too Cold for This!
The Rumpus and Electric Literature are excited to present IT’S TOO COLD FOR THIS, a holiday reading!
...moreNotable NYC: 9/12–9/18
Saturday 9/12: Nicole Cooley, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Kathleen Ossip, D. Nurkse, Lynn Emmanuel, Tom Sleigh, and Sarah Arvio celebrate The Plume Anthology of Poetry 3. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free. Ellen Urbani and Sheri Fink discuss Landfall, a novel set in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 9/13: Jonathan Corcoran, Naomi Jackson, and […]
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