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...moreLiterary events in and around Chicago this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Chicago this week!
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreSunday 8/6: 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 8/8: Lynne Cox will be at The Book Cellar to launch the paperback edition of her memoir, Swimming in the Sink. 7 p.m., free.
...moreSaturday 7/22: Tasaurah Litzky, Elizabet Valasquez, and Patricia Carragon read “Anything Goes.” Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Francesco Grisanzio, Ashleigh Allen, and Mark Guerarie celebrate the launch of Swamp Frank, Gurarie’s new chapbook. Wendy’s Subway, 7 p.m., free. Monday 7/24: t’ai freedom ford, Phillip B. Williams, Kevin Coval, Charif Shanahan, and Patricia Smith join host […]
...moreA list of books about middle America that can, maybe, help us understand some of the stories we tell about ourselves about ourselves.
...moreFriday 6/23: Jeremy McCarter reads from Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday 6/24: Head to Volumes Bookcafé for Poetas: Celebrating Latinx Poets. Readers include Vincent Toro, Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, Ruben Quesada, Erika L. Sanchez, Daniel Borzutsky, and Steve Castro. 7:30 p.m., free.
...moreA list of books written by past NEA grant recipients, as well as books that inspire protest and remind us that we can make a different reality than the one we’re in today.
...moreFriday 3/17: Visit Women & Children First for an evening of poetry with Nickole Brown! Nickole will be joined by local poets Simone Muench, and Mark Turcotte. 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday 3/18: The Bruise #2 will have stop motion, essays, projection, poems, and more. Presenters include Talia Feder, Coleman Stevenson, Aspen Farer, Harlee Logan Kelly, […]
...moreEllen Brown reviews The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop today in Rumpus Poetry.
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