Name: Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske
Start: 2019-11-20T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2019-11-20T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Alley Cat Books

Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

November 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung

November 17 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18

November 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Racket #36 : SOUND

November 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft

November 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Andrew McAfee

November 18 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Ingrid Rojas Contreras

November 19 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Savannah Shange

November 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Big Familia Book Launch

November 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske

November 20 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Jami Atteberg: All This Could Be Yours
The NYT-bestselling author of seven books of fiction including "The Middlesteins" and "All Grown Up", Jami Attenberg returns to Booksmith to read from her new novel, "All This Could Be Yours." Set in New Orleans, the book follows a largely dysfunctional family coming to terms with the near-death of their abusive father. In conversation with […]
Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
The Latinx poetry reading series and open mic, hosted every third Thursday by Josiah Luis Alderete, features a full set by Philadelphia Poet Laureate Raquel Silas Rivera, along with 10 open mic slots. Says Alderete: "Through poesia the reading series has created a genuine decolonized space of resistance that is a very powerful and necessary […]
Racquel Salas Rivera and Carina Schorske
The Center for the Art of Translation presents Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera ("while they sleep (under the bed is another country)") and writer and translator Carina del Valle Schorske ("No Es Nada: Notes from the Other Island") for a discussion about Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet […]

Upcoming Events

Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung

Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18

The Racket #36 : SOUND

East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft

Andrew McAfee

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Savannah Shange

Big Familia Book Launch

Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske

Quiet Lightning @ Elbo Room

LITERARY DEATH MATCH: li, killian, winnete + warnke

LITERARY DEATH MATCH: quirk, cooke, milliken + gremore

QUIET LIGHTNING: just add bass

PICK OF THE WEEK: paul corman-roberts

LITERARY DEATH MATCH: sloppy and exciting

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