The Inflectionist Reading Series 11: Toti O’Brien, Michael Mercurio, Patrick Meeds

Online Zoom Event

Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017) lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems, critical essays, and interviews have appeared in Palette Poetry, The Inflectionist Review, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club), Lily Poetry Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Bear Review, Sugar House Review, Rust + Moth, Coal Hill Review, the Common, […]

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Book Launch: All Water Has Perfect Memory by Nada Samih-Rotondo

Brown Bookstore 244 Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Join Brown Bookstore for the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo's debut book All Water Has Perfect Memory. Life changes forever for six-year-old Nada when Iraq's invasion of her birth country of Kuwait pushes her mother to immigrate with her to the United States. Just as she finally settles into her strange new existence apart from her father […]

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U35: Mass Poetry Reading Series featuring Shari Caplan

Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

U35 is a bi-monthly reading series for poets under 35. The series seeks to promote and bolster young Massachusetts poets while giving them a venue to share their work and connect with other poets. If you are a poet under the age of 35, sign up to read via Mass Poetry's website! This event is free and […]

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Absolution: Confessional Nonfiction and Hybrid Memoir Workshop with L Scully

Looky Here 28 Chapman Street, Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States

Absolution is a workshop designed to challenge the soul(s) of self-narrative. Through a combination of craft and a peer support sharing activity, we will transmutate our confessions and their literature into imperfect texts. Feel free to bring multimedia ephemera for the creation of physical and hybrid works. This workshop is a pro-queer and trans space. L Scully […]

$40

Conversations with Baldwin: The Salon – Baldwin on Friendship

Online Event

Conversations with Baldwin: The Salon is a series of digital panel discussions exploring the literature and life of 20th-century author and activist James Baldwin. James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) was an American essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him an important voice in the 20th century. […]

£5

CCW Book Launch: Nada Samih-Rotondo presents “All Water Has Perfect Memory: A Memoir”

Online Zoom Event

Join Cambridge Common Writers as we celebrate the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction, June 2012)'s, All Water Has Perfect Memory: A Memoir. A debut work from a Palestinian-American author, All Water Has Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers from the author's ancestral origins--the coast of Yaffa, Palestine--to her birthplace of Kuwait, eventually landing […]

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An Evening at Books and Books with Pamela Petro and Thomas Swick

Books & Books in Coral Gables 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Books & Books presents an evening with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty) & Thomas Swick discussing Petro’s book: The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir.This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event so make […]

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Book Launch for “Sensitive” by Sara Levine

RJ Julia Independent Booksellers 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, Connecticut, United States

Join RJ Julia Independent Booksellers to celebrate the launch of Sara Levine's (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) latest picture book, Sensitive. A unique and powerful look at the ways being sensitive and having big feelings is a strength "You feel way too much." / "Will you stop being dramatic?" This tender picture book follows a girl who […]

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SALT THE WATER | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation

Busboys and Poets 450 K Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Author Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) will be joined by conversation partner Ebony LaDelle and special guest Rasheed Copeland. Copies of the book will be available for purchase before and after the event, and Candice will be signing following the program. This event is free and open to all. The program begins at 6:00 pm, […]

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Candice Iloh: Salt the Water w/ Ibi Zoboi & Mila Myles

Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Heights Branch 286 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, New York, United States

From Printz honoree and National Book Award finalist Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017), a verse novel about Cerulean Gene, a nonbinary Black teenager searching for a new way to do more than survive in post-pandemic America. Cerulean and their friends went into senior year—the first year of normal school after the pandemic—with a plan: keep […]

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Main Point Books Presents Pamelo Petro, “The Long Field”

Main Point Books 116 N. Wayne Avenue, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Main Point Books and The Welsh Society of Philadelphia welcomes Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics), author of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir. This new book, perfect for fans of H Is for Hawk, is an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes […]

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The 2023-24 Lesley University Thought Leadership Series – Jasmine Warga

The Thought Leadership Series at Lesley University welcomes guest presenters who engage members of our community and the public in conversation and, through that exchange, encourage us all to act as catalysts for a more connected and just world. These presentations are free and open to all. Jasmine Warga (WFYP), a 2013 graduate of Lesley […]

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