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Writers & Books promotes reading and writing as lifelong activities for people of all ages, through educational programs, publications, community events and author appearances.
Since 1981, our programs have reached a growing audience of thousands, making us one of the largest and oldest independent literary centers in the nation.
September 2020
Keith Wilson: Field Notes on Ordinary Love
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. Poetry Reading & Conversation Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem Fellow, and graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Selected by The New York Times for its…
Find out more »Minda Harts: The Memo – What Women of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At The Table
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. Book Launch: The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At The Table Free & Open to the Public Drawing on her entrepreneurial experience…
Find out more »October 2020
Rae-Ellen W. Kavey & Allison B. Kavey: Viral Pandemics: From Smallpox to Covid-19
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Pandemics explores the world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The historiographic narrative illuminates the critical dual roles of viral biology and increasing global interconnectedness that have resulted in an escalating pandemic spiral. Scientific information is presented in an accessible, straightforward style in compelling narratives that…
Find out more »Mother Country by Elana Bell
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. Mother Country examines the intricacies of mother–daughter relationships: what we inherit, what we let go, what we hold, and what we pass on to our own children, both the visible…
Find out more »Lucia LoTempio: Hot With the Bad Things
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. Poetry Reading & Conversation Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books, 2020), lauded by Ross Gay as “a book that thinks about and thinks about thinking about violence, patriarchy, memory, witnessing, and more in ways unlike anything I have ever read . . . this book does beautiful, crucial, and difficult work.” LoTempio’s poems can be found in Passages…
Find out more »The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone by Michael Martone
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. Inspired by the real-life pioneer of early aviation who invented the art of skywriting, the brief stories in this collection by “editor” Michael Martone follow the adventures of Art Smith…
Find out more »Jeannie Gainsburg, The Savvy Ally
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. Full of…
Find out more »Affrilachian Poets makalani bandele & Joy Priest
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. photo by Andre Howard makalani bandele is a resident of Lexington, KY, an Affrilachian Poet, and Cave Canem fellow. The recipient of fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, Millay Colony, and Vermont Studio Center, his under the aegis of a winged mind was selected by Cornelius Eady for the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. His first collection of poems, hellfightin’, was published by Willow Books…
Find out more »And Then We Grew Up: Book Launch with Rachel Friedman
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. In conversation with Lester Friedman Rachel Friedman is the author of And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood (Penguin Random House, 2019),…
Find out more »Destiny O. Birdsong: Negotiations
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. In her debut book of poems, Negotiations (Tin House, 2020), Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal…
Find out more »November 2020
Akua Lezli Hope
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. "Them Gone is a homegoing of homegirl reminiscence, a family reunion in verse and sound that sings a personal and public history alive and into our hands. Akua Lezli Hope's…
Find out more »Jessica Cuello
Scroll down and select "Get Tickets" to receive a Zoom link to this event. The day of the event, you will receive an email with a Zoom link by 5 pm. If you have signed up for a reading on a Saturday, your Zoom link will arrive on Friday afternoon. Jessica Cuello is the author of Pricking (Tiger Bark Press 2016), winner of the 2017 CNY Book Award, and Hunt (The Word Works 2017), which received the 2016 Washington Prize.…
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