Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Washington, D.C. 20009
Shaka Senghor will discuss his memoir Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and
Redemption in an American Prison. After
serving 19 years in prison, 7 of which were in solitary confinement, Senghor
chronicled his years behind bars in his groundbreaking memoir, illustrating his
revelations, heartbreaks, and search for atonement from a life half spent
confined. Senghor is a mentor for at-risk youth through the MIT Media Lab and
Atonement Project, and is the director of Strategy and Innovation, whose
mission is to cut down the prison population by 2025. The reading is free but
space is limited.
Friday, March 11, 2016,
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
Enjoy a humorous reading by
Eric Hissom of the play Thyramus and
Pisbee, directed by Gus Heagerty, and enacted with Adam Wesly Brown, Tom
Story, and Rachel Zempelli. The reading will last approximately 90 minutes
followed by a discussion. The reading is free for the public.
Friday, March 11, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Upshur Street Books
827 Upshur St NW,
Washington, D.C. 20011
Encounter a harrowing tale of a
dark family history with journalist and writer Karen Branan. In her book, The Family Tree, Branan uncovers the lynching
of four innocent black people by a white mob in 1912, sanctioned by the
sheriff, Branan’s great-grandfather. The book took nearly 20 years of research,
combing through letters, diaries, surviving eye-witness testimonies, and
archives from libraries across the United States. Branan will be reading and
signing for her book at Upshur Street Books. No ticket purchase required.
Sunday, March 13, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Upshur Street Books
The Third Floor, 4200 9th St NW,
Washington, D.C. 20011
Hosted by Upshur Street Books, Barrelhouse
Presents returns for their monthly reading series. Barrelhouse is a literary
magazine dedicated to presenting the latest in innovative fiction with a focus
towards pop culture. This month’s readers include Claire Donato, writer of Burial and the poetry collection, The Second Body; Daniel Schoonebeek,
author of American Barricade and Trébuchet,
a 2015 National Poetry Series winner; Ian Hatcher, a text/sound artist who as
performed throughout the U.S. and Europe; and Robert Ostrom, author of The Youngest Butcher in Illinois and Cross the Bridge Quietly. No ticket
purchase required.
Wednesday March 16th, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Kramerbooks & Afterwards Cafe
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Washington, D.C. 20036
Svrluga looks into baseball’s longest season, what players call
“The grind,” and analyzes not only the action on the field but also the
mechanics behind the scene. He paints a dynamic portrait of the 2014 Washington
Nationals from the player line-up, management, and family life. Full of energy
and insight, reading The Grind is
anything but. No ticket purchase required but seating may be limited.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Alice Deal Middle School
3815 Fort Drive NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the modern
classic, The Book Thief, for a
reading with the author at Alice Deal Middle School. The novel, which chronicles
the life of a little girl in World War II Germany and her family’s efforts to
hide a Jewish man, is being released for its ten-year anniversary with original
sketches from author Zusak’s notebook and more. The anniversary edition is
available for purchase at politics and prose. Recommended for audience 15 and
up. The event is free but may have limited space available.
Friday, March 18th, 2016, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
George Washington University Gelman Library,
Suite 702, 2130 H Street, NW,
Washington, D.C., 20052
Revel in D.C. history by joining A Splendid Wake for
their fourth annual gathering celebrating poets in the Washington, D.C. area.
Associated with the Gelman Library at George Washington University, Splendid
Wake’s mission is to archive all poets from the Washington D.C. since
1900. The event will feature a panel
moderated by Barbara Goldberg, and panelists Roman Kostovski, Nancy Naomi
Carlson discussing the responsibility behind literary translations. Guests
Grace Cavalier, poet and host of the radio broadcast program The Poets and The
Poem, will play audio recordings of other poets and writers throughout the past
century, and Francisco Aragón and Dan Vera from Letras Latinas in D.C. will
read from their work and discuss their organization. The event is free and open
to the public.
Friday—Sunday, March 18 – 20, 2016
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
The sound of music is alive and well at the Folger Theatre. From
new techniques and instruments, the rise of printed music, and the growing
influence of music from as far as Spain, Italy, and France, Shakespeare’s era
was a flurry of music. Join in the revival as David Douglass, Daniel Meyers,
and Mary Springfels play the music from Shakespeare’s most famous plays.
Tickets are $25-$40.
Artistic Director Robert Einstein is presenting a seminar on
early music of the era, wine reception included. Tickets are $20 each.
Saturday, March 19, 2016, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street,
Bethesda, MD 20815
From E.M Forester’s famous Aspects of the Novels and Edith Wharton’s The Writing of Fiction, writers have been discussing their craft
for as long as pen has been put to paper. This one-day workshop with Nicole Miller will help
you sift through the large amount of material and uncover the most helpful
guides for modern writers. Warm-up exercises and general bibliographies will be
provided as homework along with tailored resources for participants. $50 for
nonmembers, $43 for members.
March 21, 2015–March 19, 2016
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, D.C. 20540
Washington, D.C. 20540
Relive American history through the illustrated eyes of some
of journalism’s wittiest and keenest pens. The 20th century saw a
golden era of political cartoons, chronicling the events such as the Red Scare,
Cold War, World War II, and the Vietnam War. The Library of Congress’ yearlong
exhibit ends this month, honoring cartoonist Herbert L. Block, more commonly
known as Herblock, and his contemporaries. The event is free for the public.
Monday, March 21, 2016, 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Washington, D.C. 20009
Let The Coven book club cast
a spell over you. In collaboration with Zami, Busboys and Poet’s gender and
sexuality series with the LGBTQ community, The Coven is a “witchy group for
queer women in D.C.,” which runs a monthly reading series. This month’s book
choice is the rocking memoir Hunger Makes
Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein. The two-hour
event will be split into a mingling opportunity for the first hour and a
discussion about the book for the second. No ticket purchase
required.
Friday, March 25, 12:00 p.m.
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, D.C. 20540
Washington, D.C. 20540
The Library of Congress invites you to a birthday bash
for famed writer Flannery O’Connor, who would be 91-years-old. Honor her by
joining novelists Bonnie Jo Campbell and Emily Mitchell in reading and discussion
of her work and legacy. The event is free for the public.
Thursday, March 24, 2016 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street,
Bethesda, MD 20815
It’s a double celebration! During its 40th
anniversary, The Writer’s Center honors Jim Lehrer, Honorary Board member of
The Writer’s Center and longtime host of the “News Hour on PBS” with a Lifetime
Achievement Award in Journalism. Lehrer’s body of work includes 20 novels, 2
memoirs, 3 plays, and a non-fiction work about the presidential debates.
Tickets are $15 for nonmembers, $10 for members.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 6:30
p.m.
Kramerbooks & Afterwards Cafe
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Washington, D.C. 20036
NPR book critic Glen Weldon has all the dirt on the caped
crusader, so don’t miss this special reading of his tell-all book. Or more to
the point, Weldon has done an in-depth investigation, historicizing the many
incarnations of Batman and what he represents about our times, cultural
zeitgeist, and psyche. With wit and humor, Weldon delivers insight into the
cultural chimera of Batman up to the present moment (at least until the next
movie). No ticket purchase is required.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 7:00 p.m.
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW,
Washington, D.C., 20008
Peggy Orenstein is a landmark name in the field of sexuality
and development studies of young girls, as her work Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Schoolgirls
are still read more than two decades later. Her work has appeared in Salon, Parenting, and The New York Times Magazine. In her
latest work, Girls and Sex: Navigating
the Complicated New Landscape, Orenstein alerts parents to the fact that
teenage girls are growing up in a cultural moment obsessed with sex, porn, and
undefined boundaries of consent. Judith Warner, writer of Perfect Madness and We’ve Got
Issues, will join the conversation with Orenstein. The reading is free.
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