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• 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 […]
• Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart
  The SF-based editor of the influential "This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color" (first published in 1981, the second edition won a 1986 American Book Award), Cherríe Moraga reads from her acclaimed memoir "Native Country of the Heart" (2019), which charts, with great intimacy, her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline […]
• Wherever there Is A Fight
  Ten years ago, Elaine Elison and Stan Yogi published the California Book Award-winning "Wherever There's A Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California." Published by Heydey Books, which just released a 10th-anniversary edition, the book spans from the gold rush to the post-9/11 era, a history that is […]
• 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 […]