Friday, November 13, 2015

Literary Spotlight: Nov. 13-19



Isabelle Allende – The Japanese Lover
Friday, November 13th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

In her 17th work of fiction, Isabelle Allende tells a compelling story of love and betrayal set in both present-day San Francisco and Poland in the chaotic days just after World War II. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014 and Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2012, she has dazzled readers worldwide with her powerful storytelling and distinctive hybrid of magical realism and historical fiction. Allende will be in conversation with Marie Arana, former Washington Post Book World editor-in-chief, author of the novel Cellophane and an acclaimed biography of BolĂ­var. Arana is currently Distinguished Chair of the Cultures of the Countries of the South at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. There is no public signing at this event. All books will be pre-signed by the author. Free admission.

Becky Albertalli - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda & I.W. Gregorio - None of the Above
Friday, November 13th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children and Teens Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Psychologist Becky Albertalli tells the story of Simon, who is having a very bad day. After leaving his e-mail up on a school computer, he finds himself blackmailed by a classmate who discovered his messages to Blue, an anonymous boy at school who just might be Simon’s first real romantic relationship—if only life, not to mention extortion, doesn’t get in the way. Surgeon Gregorio, meanwhile, details the odyssey of Kristin, who apparently has it all—a handsome boyfriend, a track scholarship to State, and even the Homecoming Queen tiara—until she is diagnosed as intersex. Processing this news on her own is difficult enough, but when the whole school finds out, Kristin is forced to question everything and everyone she thought she knew. Ages 15 and up. Free admission.

11th Hour Poetry Slam Hosted by 2Deep the Poetess
Friday, November 13th from 11 pm to 1 am
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009

The 11th Hour Poetry Slam offers an opportunity for poetry lovers to enjoy the competitive art of late-night performance poetry. Enjoy two rounds of hig- intensity poetry, with the audience choosing a winner. Come out for an alternative way to spend your Friday night at Poetry Slam, Inc's (PSI) DC Slam Venue. $5 cover.

Winston Groom - The Generals: Patton, Macarthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Saturday, November 14th at 1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Winston Groom, author of the classic novel Forrest Gump, is well known for his military histories such as Shiloh, 1862, Vicksburg, 1863, and A Storm in Flanders. His new book complements his authoritative group portrait of Lindbergh, Rickenbacker, and Doolittle in The Aviators, as Groom presents the lives and achievements of Patton, Marshall, and MacArthur, three icons of twentieth-century military leadership who came of age in World War I and proved essential to the Allies’ victory in World War II. Free admission.

Karen Olsoon – All the Houses
Saturday, November 14th at 3:30 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

A former editor of The Texas Observer and author of the novel Waterloo, Olsson was raised in Washington, and she returns to D.C. in her second work of fiction. As much about the long shadows of politics as it is about family, the narrative follows Helen as she puts her failed Hollywood dreams on hold to care for her ailing and aging father, a man whose all-but-forgotten involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal has colored Helen’s abiding and ambiguous view of the political scene she can neither abandon nor find a place in. Free admission.

Avia Mebane – Amorette
Saturday, November 14th at 5 pm
Upshur Street Books
827 Upshur St NW
Washington, DC 20011

Bring the kids to meet Avia Mebane and to hear the story of Amorette. Journey with Amorette, a heart-shaped ladybug who discovers that her originality is a good thing and that years of teasing actually contributed to her learning. She decides to view her abnormalities as gifts and change a whole community's way of thinking. Mebane is a fourth grade teacher at CentroNia School in Washington, D.C. Free admission.

Saturday, November 14th at 6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Cheever’s literary output My Name is Bill, the life story of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Continuing her examination of America’s long and close relationship with distilled spirits, Cheever presents the history and culture of drinking in the U.S., from George Washington’s intoxicated moments to binges among later politicians and on to the toll drinking takes on Americans’ health and productivity today. Free admission.

Forrest Pritchard – Growing Tomorrow
Sunday, November 15th at 11 am
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Interest in local, sustainable food is at an all-time high. Farmers’ market and CSA devotees, backyard homesteaders and community gardeners all want to know more—much more—about how our food is raised. Seventh-generation farmer and author Forrest Pritchard introduces us to 18 heroes of the sustainable food movement. With more than 100 engaging photos and 50 mouthwatering recipes, Growing Tomorrow is both a farm-inspired cookbook and an enlightening homage to the people who provide us with delicious, fresh food—and ensure that it will be there tomorrow, too. Free admission.

Sheila Hamilton - All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness
Sunday, November 15th at 1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

An Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and currently Portland KINK-FM news director and morning co-host, Sheila Hamilton is also on the boards of Girls Inc., an organization empowering girls, and The Flawless Foundation, a mental health advocacy group. Her first book supports this work by reporting her own experience of the devastating costs of mental illness. Looking back ten years, Hamilton recounts her late husband’s bipolar disorder and considers what she could have done to identify the signs of his illness sooner. Hamilton will be in conversation with former Senator Gordon Smith, head of the trade commission governing radio and active in mental health issues. Free admission.

Jehanne Debrow – The Arranged Marriage and Leslie Pietrzyk – This Angel on My Chest
Sunday, November 15th from 2 pm to 4 pm
The Writer's Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815

Leslie Pietrzyk reads her collection of short stories, This Angel on My Chest. She is joined by Jehanne Dubrow, author of The Arranged Marriage, a collection of prose poems. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. Free admission.

Margo Jefferson – Negroland: A Memoir
Sunday, November 15th at 3:30 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Now a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts, Margo Jefferson won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism during her years as a book and theater critic at The New York Times and associate editor at Newsweek. The author of On Michael Jackson, Jefferson, in her second book turns her sharp eye on her own upbringing. Raised in upper-class Chicago in the 1960s, the daughter of the head of pediatrics at Provident hospital, Jefferson feels her true home was an uncharted region she calls Negroland. There, she wasn’t quite part of either the black or white communities; if she experienced the freedom of class, she always felt the limitations imposed by race. Her passionate memoir complicates the already fraught picture of the civil rights era, describing the painful and frustrating circumstances of an overlooked sector of American society. Jefferson will be joined in conversation by Lisa Page. Page directs the creative writing program at the George Washington University. Free admission.

Sunday Kind of Love Open Mic
Sunday, November 15th from 5 pm to 7 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009

Sunday Kind of Love Open Mic Poetry features emerging and established poets from the Washington, D.C. area and around the nation. Each program includes one to two featured poets and an open mic segment. $5 Cover.

Sunday, November 15th at 6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/richard-cohen-james-barnes-michael-barone-and-charlie-cook-almanac-of-american-politics

Familiar and essential to many in Washington, the bi-annual Almanac includes profiles of every governor, senator, and house member, detailed state and congressional district maps, the latest Census Bureau data, analyses of the 2014 midterm elections, and much more. The authors will present an inside look at this indispensable resource and talk about today’s political landscape. Free admission. 

Lori Carlson-Hijuelos and Ray Suarez - Oscar Hijuelos's Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise
Sunday, November 15th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012

Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) became the first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love in 1990. Several books later, he was honored with the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature. While publishing fiction, including A Simple Habana Melody and the memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Hijuelos also worked on a novel about Mark Twain and British explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Based on fact, but brought to life by imagination, the narrative uses storytelling and invented correspondence to chart the men’s friendship, their adventures in Cuba, and their mutual interest in spirits and the afterlife. Lori Carlson-Hijuelos will be in conversation with Ray Suarez, host of Al-Jazeer’s Inside Story America and the author of Latino Americans, and Marie Arana, former Washington Post Book World editor-in-chief, author of Cellophane and a biography of BolĂ­var. Free admission.

Irin Carmon – Notorious RBG
Sunday, November 15th at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Join co-author Irin Carmon as she discusses her new book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Nearly a half-century into being a feminist and legal pioneer, something funny happened to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the octogenarian won the internet. Across America, people who weren’t even born when Ginsburg made her name are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute. Irin Carmon will be in conversation with Fatima Goss Graves, Senior Vice President for Program, where she leads the Center's broad program agenda to eliminate barriers in employment, education, health and reproductive rights and lift women and families out of poverty. Free admission.

Lauret Savoy - Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
Monday, November 16th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/lauret-savoy-trace-memory-history-race-and-american-landscape

A professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke, Savoy is the author of books including The Colors of Nature and Bedrock. In her newest study of the intersection of natural and cultural histories, Savoy combines her professional interests with her personal background as someone of Native American, slave, and free-black heritage to look at landscapes ranging from the San Andreas Fault to the Carolinas to burial grounds, demonstrating how ideas of race mark both geographies and peoples. Free admission. 

James Kilgore - Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Monday, November 16th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017

Once the “land of the free,” today the U.S. is the world’s largest jailer. Over the last 40 years, as Kilgore, author of We, documents in this well-illustrated People’s Guide, the country has witnessed an explosive growth in prison populations, especially of minorities and the poor. Seeking explanations for these demographics, Kilgore, a student activist and former SLA member who lived in South Africa for 27 years until his extradition and imprisonment in the U.S., combines history, economics, statistics, and prisoners’ own stories to show how the criminal justice system has been used to try to resolve issues of racial conflict, inequality, citizenship, gender and sexuality. Free admission.

Stephen Hess – American’s Political Dynasties
Monday, November 16th at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

The Constitution states that "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States," yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie. America was founded in rebellion against nobility and inherited status. Yet from the start, dynastic families have been conspicuous in national politics. The Adamses. The Lodges. The Tafts. The Roosevelts. The Kennedys. And today the Bushes and the Clintons. Longtime presidential historian Stephen Hess offers an encyclopedic tour of the families that have loomed large over America's political history. Free admission.

Toni Tipton Martin – The Jemima Code
Monday, November 16th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th and K location)
1025 5th St NW
Washington, DC 20001

Join us at Busboys and Poets culinary journalist and community activist Toni Tipton-Martin as she discusses and signs her book The Jemima Code. The Jemima Code presents more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827 house servant’s manual, the first book published by an African American in the trade, to modern classics by authors such as Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor. The books are arranged chronologically and illustrated with photos of their covers; many also display selected interior pages, including recipes. Free admission.

Leigh Bargudo – Six of Crows
Monday, November 16th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children and Teens Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Returning to the universe she created in her Grisha trilogy, Bardugo introduces the reader to Kaz Brekker, a teenage criminal genius who is already making a name for himself in Ketterdam’s teeming underworld. A member of the city’s ruling council offers Kaz what seems to be the opportunity of a lifetime: break a scientist out of prison and be rewarded with unimaginable wealth. To help him accomplish his mission, Kaz gathers a crew of outcasts together. With talents as varied as their pasts are dark, the unruly group may just pull off the operation—unless they fail to overcome the enmity between them. Ages 13 and up. Free admission.

Jon Meacham - Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Monday, November 16th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Meacham’s sure grasp of history and the leaders who have contributed to it earned him a Pulitzer for American Lion, his life of Andrew Jackson; he has also written American Gospel, a portrait of the Founders, and has told the story of one of the last century’s decisive relationships in Franklin and Winston. Now Meacham chronicles the career of George H.W. Bush, drawing on official archives and on the former president’s personal diaries to follow him from his Connecticut upbringing and service in World War II to his successful Texas oil enterprises, and through his long and diverse public career as a congressman, U.S. ambassador, CIA director, and chief executive. Free admission.

Monday Night Open Mic hosted by Mary Bowman
Monday, November 16th from 8 pm to 10 pm
Busboys and Poets (Shirlington location)
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206

For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians, and a different host every week. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.

Monday Night Open Mic hosted by Ayanna Gallant
Monday, November 16th from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017

For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians, and a different host every week. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.

Tuesday, November 17th from 5:30 pm to 8:30 Pm
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20045

Politics & Prose is proud to partner with the National Press Club Journalism Institute for a night of pols, pundits, and prose. Come meet fantastic novelists, historians, and cultural critics. Proceeds from this non-profit fundraiser will benefit the SEED foundation, which helps under-served students prepare for college.
Tickets: $10 for the public; $5 for P&P members; $5 for NPC members. Books to be signed by the authors must be purchased at the fair.

Johanna Fernandez - Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017

Edited by Johanna Fernández, a Fulbright Scholar and Baruch College history professor, this collection of work by Mumia Abu-Jamal features more than a hundred previously unpublished essays by the activist and author of Live from Death Row and Death Blossoms—many written while Abu-Jamal was in solitary confinement. These pieces crackle with Abu-Jamal’s revolutionary perspective on community, power, politics, and social change. Fernández will be in conversation with Netfa Freeman, events coordinator for the Institute for Policy Studies’ Social Action & Leadership School for Activists. Free admission.

John Sorensen - A Sister's Memories: The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott
Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009

The Abbott sisters, Edith and Grace, may be less well known than their fellow activist Jane Addams, but the Abbotts were tireless advocates for the poor, women, and children. Edith had a doctorate in economics, spent time with the Webbs in Britain and Addams at Hull House, taught at Wellesley and served as dean of the School of Social Service Administration. She also wrote a memoir of Grace, who focused on immigrant rights and especially on children’s welfare; Grace was drafting language against child labor into the Social Security Act at the time of her death. Sorensen, founder of the Abbott Sisters Project and editor of The Grace Abbott Reader, has seamlessly put together Edith’s notes and drafts for this portrait of Grace and the sisters’ pioneering social justice work. Free admission.

Tanya Golash-Boza – Deported
Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 –twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996.Tanya Golash-Boza uses the stories of 147 of these deportees to explore the racialized and gendered dimensions of mass deportation in the United States, showing how this crisis is embedded in economic restructuring, neoliberal reforms, and the disproportionate criminalization of black and Latino men. Ultimately, Golash-Boza argues that deportation has become a state strategy of social control, both in the United States and in the many countries that receive deportees. Free admission.

Sue Grafton – X
Tuesday, November 17th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

The twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet can stand for almost anything, from treasure to a kiss to an unknown. Reaching X in her abecedarium of crime fiction, Grafton sends Kinsey Millhone on a race against time as she works to put a sociopath behind bars before he can take her off the case—permanently. The line for will form at 6 p.m. and order will be first come, first served. Customers will need a copy of X to enter the signing line. Sue Grafton will sign copies of X as well as up to three backlist titles.
Free admission.

Tuesday Night Open Mic hosted by Drew Anderson
Tuesday, November 17th from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices, and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians and a different host every week. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.

Tuesday Night Open Mic
Tuesday, November 17th from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012

For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices, and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians and a different host every week.  This week's theme is Domestic Violence. $5 cover.

Bruce Barcott - Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
Wednesday, November 18th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012

Today’s groundswell in favor of legal marijuana heralds many socio-economic changes. In his third book, Barcott reports from states on the front line of pot legalization—Washington and Colorado—to show us what to expect. His findings confirm that relaxing pot laws does not increase crime, for instance, even as it raises questions of zoning and etiquette: when is it appropriate to share? To bring your own? Barcott will be in conversation with Alison Holcomb, the architect of Washington State’s successful legalization campaign; Holcomb was recently named national director of the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice, an effort to end America’s mass incarceration crisis. Free admission.

Dave Tevlin – The Siege of the Capital
Wednesday, November 18th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Shirlington location)
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206

Siege of the Capital, the second Jake Katz novel, tracks Hamaas Abdul Khaalis’ takeover of the District Building, the Islamic Center, and the B’nai B’rith in Washington in March 1977, during which one person was killed, several others (including Marion Barry) were wounded, and more than 100 people were held hostage for 39 hours. Four years earlier, Black Muslims had slain seven members of Mr. Khaalis’ family, including three small children, at his home in Washington, D.C. The novel is true to the facts of both cases. The fiction weaves Katz’ personal story through the real 39 hours and their aftermath. Dave Tevelin was an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and the first Executive Director of the State Justice Institute. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, Sandy. Free admission.

Elaine Sciolino - The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
Wednesday, November 18th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

The former New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of La Seduction, Sciolino has been a confirmed Parisienne since 2002, a status solidified when she was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. Her new book is a spirited tour of the rue des Martyrs, which features a transvestite cabaret, a centenarian bookshop, and purveyors of cheese and other delicacies—altogether a thoroughfare that clings to its idiosyncrasies. Free admission.

Wednesday Night Open Mic Poetry hosted by Jonathan Tucker
Busboys and Poets (5th and K location)
1025 5th St NW
Washington, DC 20001

For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians, and a different host every week. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.

Walter Isaacson - The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Thursday, November 19th at 5:30 pm
Buck's Fishing & Camping
5031 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/walter-isaacson-innovators-how-group-of-hackers-geniuses-and-geeks-created-digital

Join bestselling author Walter Isaacson for cocktail hour at Buck's Fishing & Camping restaurant, where the renowned biographer will discuss some of the world’s most visionary and fascinating innovators: from Steve Jobs (whose life now on the big screen is based on Isaacson’s excellent book of the same name), to Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Steve Wozniak, all profiled in his recent book, The Innovators, just out in paperback.  Guests will enjoy a selection of hors d'oeuvres and raise a glass with the author this evening. A cash bar will be open and there will be a book signing at the end of the event. 1 copy of The Innovators, 1 drink ticket & hors d'oeuvres for 1: $55; $50 for P & P members; 1 copy of The Innovators, 2 drink tickets & hors d'oeuvres for 2: $75; $70 for P & P members. 

Gregg Riley – Steps to the Promised Land
Thursday, November 19th from 6:30 pm to 8 pm
Busboys and Poets (Hyattsville location)
5331 Baltimore Ave
Hyattsville, MD 20781

Gregg Riley (Col., U.S. Army Retired), Inspirational Speaker and Author from the Washington, DC area will discuss and sign his first book entitled Steps to the Promised Land. The book focuses on solutions to the serious racial issues we face today and the plight of individuals and the communities being affected across the country. Gregg shares his leadership wisdom to help readers to develop strategies and the will to overcome life’s challenges. Gregg is one of the most sought after motivational speakers around. His passion for helping people and organizations maximize their potential creates a one-of-a-kind unique experience for any audience. He has a strong message for the youth of America geared toward helping them understand the continued need for non-violence, peaceful resolution, and education. Free admission.

Mark Ozer-Washington Metroland
Thursday, November 19th from 7 to 9 pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815

Mark Ozer reads from and discusses his book Washington Metroland, a book that tells the story of the Metro system as part of the story of the Washington region. The lives of significant personages provide a focus for the history of each station as we also explore its recent development as an urban node. Free admission.

Thursday Night Open Mic hosted by Rebecca Dupas
Thursday, November 19th from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Hyattsville location)
5331 Baltimore Ave
Hyattsville, MD 20781

For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices, and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians and a different host every week. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear.
$5 suggested donation.


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