Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking with them. And yet we often find ourselves distracted, exhausted, or at a loss as to how to have meaningful conversations. Harvard lecturer, speech pathologist, and mother, Rebecca Rolland (Fiction, June 2017) offers an essential, evidence-based […]
Late August is a perfect time to sit with the exceptional poems of Natalie Padilla Young and Autumn McClintock and consider the world around us - both built and natural - and the ways it affects us and we affect it.Natalie Padilla Young (Poetry, January 2009) co-founded and manages the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By […]
Novels-in-verse challenge writers to tell stories with far fewer words. But while to some this may feel like a test, it’s also an opportunity to play: with format, white space, word choice, metaphors, structure, rhythm, and more. In this seminar, writers will be asked to re-imagine scenes from a work-in-progress with an emphasis on how […]
Co-presented by The Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, this event will feature Enzo Surin (Poetry, 2012), Roberto Carlos Garcia, Iyaba Mandingo, Geoffrey Philp, Saida Agostini Bostic, and Andre Bagoo. Hosted by Tanya Batson-Savage and Attillab Springer.
Visit the Anchor House of Artists in Northampton, MA for an evening of Poetry & Music with Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017), Eliot Cardinaux, and Rebecca Faulkner. Michael W Mercurio lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, where he serves on the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly Amherst […]
Join McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers for an evening of readings and thought, curated by Shamar Hill. Drinks and socializing to follow in the bar. RSVP required. Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012) is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, librettist, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including American Scapegoat (Black Lawrence Press, May […]
Celia Jeffries (Fiction/Nonfiction, 2008) will kick off the Friends of the New Salem Public Library's Local Author Series with a reading from Blue Desert. Books will be available for purchase. This event will be hosted in-person and on Zoom.
L Scully's (Nonfiction, January 2023) reading series, "Working Title" will host the next event at the Lucy Parsons Center. Reader list and further details TBA.
Toni Morrison wrote, “It seems to me that the best art is political, and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful simultaneously.” In this seminar, participants will read Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, and several of her essays or speeches, exploring how Morrison uses a colonial language — […]
A reading and multimedia presentation to celebrate the publication of Shari Caplan's (Poetry, June 2014) "The Red Shoes; a phantasmagoric ballet on paper."
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, […]
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 […]
