Peer Workshop on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NYAvailable at Ampersand Books Participants in Dante Michaeux's class of 2/24/2022, Prose Rhythms in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, are invited to share their drafts, written in any genre, inspired by the prompts listed below. Alison Meyers, Writers & Books' Executive Director, will facilitate. PROMPTS Look out the smallest window in your home. Make a list of the first 100 things you […]
Darrel Alejandro Holnes: Stepmotherland | Virtual Event
Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NYChoose the ticket price that's right for you: Free, $5, $10, $15 or $20 Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Stepmotherland (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s first full-length collection, is filled with poems that chronicle and question identity, family, and allegiance. Exploring a complex range of emotions, this book is […]
Steve Majors: High Yella | Virtual Event
Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NYChoose the ticket price that's right for you: Free, $5, $10, $15 or $20 In his memoir High Yella, Steve Majors traces his life growing up in Batavia, NY as a white-passing son in an all-Black family; and later, marrying his husband and adopting their two daughters. In this poignant account, Majors returns to a […]
Amiri Baraka’s Blues People
Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NYWriter, director, and actor David Shakes will lead Evolution Community Read, a virtual community conversation on Amiri Baraka’s Blues People: Negro Music in White America. Writers & Books is thrilled to partner with the Delta Nu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. to showcase literature of the Black Arts Movement. The chapter’s Arts Committee […]
Matt Donovan
Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NYMatt Donovan will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our country’s obsession with guns to explore America’s deep-seated political divisions and issues linked to violence, race, power, and privilege. Taking its title from an actual museum located in Wyoming, this […]
Craig Morgan Teicher
Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NYCraig Morgan Teicher will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Russell Edson’s (1935-2014) career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of […]
Luther Hughes
Writers & Books Online 740 University Ave, Rochester, NYLuther Hughes will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions. A Shiver in the Leaves is stunningly cinematic in its layered portrayal of the never-ending dualities of a queer Black poet’s life in the city. Hughes's interrogation of selfhood renders a sharply intimate and viscerally powerful […]