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  • SPEAK. EASY. // A Virtual Reading Series presents John Freeman, Mary-Kim Arnold, and Jenny Zhang

    Twenty Stories LA presents SPEAK. EASY.—a virtual reading series with your favorite authors. On May 16, SPEAK. EASY. welcomes John Freeman, Mary-Kim Arnold, and Jenny Zhang to read from their latest works, followed by a conversation and audience Q&A, hosted by Emory and Alexa, owners of Twenty Stories. The event is free. Join here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/speak--easy---a-virtual

  • Virtual Event: A Poetry Reading with Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor

    A virtual reading with Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor, hosted by Brookline Booksmith, who says "Grab a drink and get ready for some poems. Settle in for some breath music. Join Ellen Bass and Tess Taylor to celebrate their new collections. Tess’s book Rift Zone offers poems for an apocalyptic California– the precarious places, the fault lines […]

  • Our Homes, Our Bodies, Our Imaginations: How Place Shapes Identity with Philip Metres, Lisa Olstein, and

    Virtual Views and Brews presents Our Homes, Our Bodies, Our Imaginations: how place shapes identity. Join KUT's Rebecca McInroy in conversation with poet Philip Metres, poet and memoirist Lisa Olstein, and anthropologist Meena Khandelwal,  to talk about everything from how we experience pain collectively, to the fragmented memories that shape our imaginary, to the gendered aspects of space […]

  • The Racket Weekly: THE LONG GONE with Keith S. Wilson

    This week, The Racket celebrates Chicago-based poet Keith S. Wilson, author of Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love. The event's theme—THE LONG GONE—"digs into the idea of what we long for in the past and in the future. The people, the places, the experiences—all of those we've left behind." Doors at 7. Show at 7:15. Find the […]

  • SOMOS presents Ellen Bass and Jericho Brown

    SOMOS presents an online reading with Ellen Bass and Jericho Brown, free and open to the public. Access information here: https://somostaos.org/calendar/#event=38764263

  • Lambda Literary presents The Quarantine Reading Series, featuring Alison C. Rollins

    Lambda Literary's Quarantine Reading Series is "a virtual poetry experience running May 28th and 29th where emerging and established poets share their work and fellowship, and where your ticket purchase or donation supports LGBTQ and BIPOC writers during the global crisis. This month, twenty phenomenal poets including Alison C. Rollins, Julian Randall, Benjamin Garcia, Kai […]

  • The Beautiful Witness We Bear: Writer to Writer featuring Jericho Brown and Nikki Finney

    The Bay Area Book Festival presents Jericho Brown and Nikki Finney in conversation, moderated by Ismail Muhammad, reviews editor for The Believer and board member at the National Book Critics Circle. Register to view the livestream here: https://baybookfest.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F3m00000ycHwPEAU From the event website:  "In our Writer to Writer series, two writers who are fans of each other’s […]

  • Windows/Shababeek: A Bilingual Virtual Reading featuring Philip Metres

    The Arab American History Museum presents a Sukoon bilingual live reading around the theme of Windows/Shababeek, curated and hosted by Sukoon founding editor Rewa Zeinati, and featuring a fabulous lineup of Arab writers and poets, including: Zeyn Joukhadar, Zeina Hashem Beck, Philip Metres, George Abraham, Sahar Mustafa, Zeina Azzam (Arabic) and Farah Chamma (Arabic). AAHM […]