Past Events

Jacqueline Houtman discusses the life of Bayard Rustin and her new biography of him,Troublemaker for Justice! Boswell's is located at 2559 N Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 5321. For more info call 414-332-1181 or email info@boswellbooks.com

D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry DS Marriot is a poet and critic, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On…

Brandon Shimoda's recent books are The Grave on the Wall (City Lights) and The Desert (The Song Cave). He is currently writing a book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration, passages from which have appeared in The Asian American Literary Review, Hyperallergic, The Nation, and The New Inquiry. He is also the curator of the Hiroshima Library, a collection of books on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, currently installed in the Japanese American National Museum in LA. The Poet Dot Devota is the author of The Division…

Moderated by Oscar Villalon with Meg Hurtado Bloom, Rita Bullwinkel, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Chia-Chia Lin, Kevin Simmonds, and Paul Wilner ZYZZYVA's latest volume—the Bay Area Issue—features new writing and poetry from the East Bay to San Francisco, from the North Bay to the Peninsula. Join them for a lively reading featuring six of the contributors to Issue No. 117: Meg Hurtado Bloom, Rita Bullwinkel, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Chia-Chia Lin, Kevin Simmonds, and Paul Wilner. Emceed by ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar…

Brazos Bookstore and the Alley Theatre present Octavio Solis reading from and discussing Retablos! Brazos is located at 2421 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005. For more info call 713-523-0701 or email Traci Thiebaud  at traci@brazosbookstore.com

Mapping the Bay: with Kim Shuck and friends poetry and discussion exploring the pathways, language takes through land, water, and air. Poetry is all around us. Hidden in the trauma and joys of a life lived in full witness of the events of the last few centuries on a peninsula haunted by languages lost but reclaimed, hidden, yet in plain sight. Local poets read from new and old works. What does it mean to stand as witness to lost histories?…

Gibby Haynes reading from his new novel Me and Mr. Cigar published by Soho Press From the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes—world famous Butthole Surfers front man/lyricist and self-proclaimed eternal Texan adolescent—comes the surreal tale of seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his trusted dog, Mr. Cigar. Oscar and his dog have made a pretty good life for themselves, despite the fact that Oscar's family has all but vanished—his father is dead; his mother has a new boyfriend. His older…