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Join NOW!Though the temperatures may suggest otherwise, it’s time to start thinking about summertime reads. Our June book club picks are Night of the Living Rez, a debut collection of stories by Morgan Talty, and Refuse to Disappear, by Tara Betts.
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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A selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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...moreFriday 8/11: Visit Women & Children First for a poetry reading with Emily Jungmin Yoon, C.M. Burroughs, and Holly Amos. 7:30 p.m., free. Tuesday 8/15: Camille Bordas discusses her novel, How to Behave in a Crowd at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. 6 p.m., free.
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Tara Betts discusses her newest collection, Break the Habit, the burden placed on black women artists to be both artist and activist, and why writing is rooted in identity.
...moreFriday 11/18: Fifth Wednesday Journal presents a reading by Tony Triglio, Christina Pugh, Richard Jones, and Sheila Donohue at The Book Cellar. 7 p.m., free. Tara Betts will read from her new poetry collection Break the Habit at Women & Children First! Tara will be joined by Eve Ewing and Erika Sanchez. 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday […]
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Ellen Brown reviews The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreAt Redbones. Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman. Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler. Pyramid of Bone. Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky. Small Congregations. Tokyo Butter. The titles alone are provocative enough to evoke curiosity about her poems. Each of these volumes sits on my poetry bookcase side by side because they are […]
...moreTara Betts found herself attacked by a particularly ignorant political blogger named Debbie Schlussel over her class at UrbanWordNYC. Betts’s response is elegant, measured, and powerful, everything the attack was not. Update: I have been told that Schlussel’s attack was directed at the idea of hip-hop pedagogy and the associated program at the University of […]
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