The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello.
Poets Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown, visiting respectively from Washington, D.C. and New York City, read their work and converse with the audience.
Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out!
Readings + music!
Join us for an amazing night of readings from the 2016 Grotto Fellows!
There will be a reading, a projector with images, some form of favorite childhood snacks, adult drinks, and of course books for sale!
Readings!
André Alexis, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs, discusses his new novel, The Hidden Keys with Karen Joy Fowler.
In Conversation with Steven Winn.
Green Apple's Stephen Sparks talks with essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger about his new collection, The Ghosts of Birds.
Free reading!
Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2016 Gina Berriault Award: Suzanne Rivecca.
Tickets are $9 in advance or $12 at the door!
Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem returns with A Gambler's Anatomy.
Ibram X. Kendi discusses his National Book Award-nominated book, Stamped from the Beginning.
Brit Bennett in conversation about her debut novel, The Mothers (Riverhead).
Please join us for the fall MFA in Writing Faculty Reading.
Poets Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts read from new work and engage in conversation with their audience.
Patrick Hoffman follows up his sensational debut The White Van with Every Man A Menace, the inside story of an increasingly ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring.
An evening of stories + music.
This Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded appearance is a signing and photo op ONLY. Hannah will not be performing, drunk-cooking, or reading at this event.
All events are free and open to the public.
Hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Blythe Baldwin.
An evening of The Beats poets and the Zen of Haiku poetry.
The 2016 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized.
Andrés Neuman returns to Books on the Park to read from his newly translated essay collection, How to Travel Without Seeing.
Catapult celebrates the release of Peter Orner's AM I ALONE HERE? with a reading and conversation with Peter Orner and award-winning journalist and radio producer Julia Scott.
Featured writers: Amanda Rosenberg, Kathleen Miller, Jamie Real, Lauren Wheeler, Nicole Love, and Elaine Gavin.
Fiction writers, Assistant Professor Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks, read from their work.
An afternoon of reading.