PoemWorks Series: Poetry Reading with Rex Arrasmith and Karen Sharpe
2025-11-07 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online Zoom Event
Join Rex Arrasmith (Fiction/Poetry, January 2018/June 2020) and Karen Sharpe for an evening of poetry reading and open mic with the online PoemWorks series.

Andrea Wang & Lauren H. Kerstein In Conversation at Boulder Bookstore
2025-11-09 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Denver) | Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011) and Lauren H. Kerstein will speak about and sign their new books, Worthy: The Brave and Capable Life of Joseph Pierce, and Hope Rode at Boulder Bookstore. This is a FREE kid’s event, but registration is required.

About Worthy:Worthy is the true story of a man of indomitable spirit. In the mid-nineteenth century, an impoverished father from Canton, China, sold his young son to an American sea captain, Amos Peck. The boy, dubbed “Joe,” worked on the ship for months, not knowing if his fate was to do so forever. Or would he be sold again? When the ship returned to America, Captain Peck brought the young boy to his family, who raised him with the other children. Joe Pierce grew, gave distinguished service in the Union Army, married, had children and ultimately became an American citizen–all at a time when anti-Chinese prejudice was rampant.

About Hope Rode:Following the Great Depression, literacy rates in the country had dwindled, and education and opportunities were harder to come by, especially in areas like rural Appalachia. But still, there was a dream: a vision of a nation in which reading was accessible to all—even those in the most remote places.

The Packhorse Library project of the 1930s and 1940s called upon Kentucky women to make that vision a reality and rise to the difficult and demanding job of delivering books on horseback. The Packhorse librarians were brave, steadfast, and resilient. For years, the women endured rough terrain, harsh conditions, and exhaustion. And with each book delivered and reading lesson taught, the librarians ushered in a new era for Kentuckians.

Hope Rode tells the true story of the strength, courage, and conviction of the Packhorse librarians.

Experiments & Disorders: Readings with L Scully, Patricia Spears Jones, and Heather Lynn Johnson
2025-11-11 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford, this event features fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Featured authors include L Scully (Nonfiction, January 2023), Patricia Spears Jones, and Heather Lynn Johnson.

L Scully is a living writer. They are, first and foremost, a lover.

Patricia Spears Jones is an African American poet, anthologist and cultural activist who received the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and was appointed The New York State Poet (23-25). She is author of The Beloved Community and ten other collections, and two plays commissioned and produced by Mabou Mines. She edited THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin Inauguration Day Hat and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets. She serves on the board of The Poetry Project, is founder/of the American Poets Congress, is a Senior Fellow Emeritus for the Black Earth Institute and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Hartwick College.

Heather Lynn Johnson (she, they) is an artist and poet living in Brooklyn whose work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Heather’s formal approach to the narrative, whether visual or poetic, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. Centered around queer and Black American liberation and culture, with an emphasis on outsiders, rebels and lost histories, Heather uses an autobiographical framework and considers their work imbued by their lived experience as a butch Black lesbian. Heather has published poems in the Panorama Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Pique Magazine, Pine Magazine, and Facility Magazine. Heather was a co-curator for Queer|Art|Film from 2020-23, the 2019 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow, and the 2017 Literary Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship. She is also the author of “The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth” (Inpatient Press, 2017) and received an MFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Author Discussion with Tracey Baptiste
2025-11-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library – Central Library, 901 G St NW,, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
DC Public Library partners with The Brown Bookshelf tour to host a family-focused panel discussion and live reading from four renowned children’s literature authors, featuring Tracey Baptiste. She will read excerpts from her books and lead a discussion on how she crafts engaging books with diverse topics.

Poetry Reading with Andrea Ballou
2025-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
Join Andrea Ballou (Poetry, June 2015) for a poetry reading at Boston University. Open Mic to follow.

Sip and Read: Celeste Mohammad
2025-11-22 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Port_of_Spain) | Scribbles and Quills, 6 Gaston Street, Lange Park, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
Enjoy an evening of readings and conversation with award-winning author Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) for a special Sip & Read event featuring her latest work, Ever Since We Small.Sip, nibble, relax: the ambiance will be cozy, warm, and literary.
