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Saturday August 17 2019, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon NYPL Mulberry Street Branch 10 Jersey Street New York, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Second Brownstone Poets 2019 Anthology Book Event A Celebration of Poetry and Prose from Poets from Brownstone Poets Reading Series Held in Brooklyn Heights Saturday, August 17 at 2 p.m. New Y... [details »]

Saturday August 24 2019, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM   SPF19: 2019 Small Press Flea Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

A summer market of your favorite local publishers and magazines, SPF '19 is the sixth installment of the Small Press Flea, co-presented by BOMB Magazine and Brooklyn Public Library. SPF '19 is located... [details »]

Saturday August 24 2019, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon 220 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY, United States 11201 Brooklyn, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Four awesome poets Bob Heman, Cindy Hochman, Carrie Magness Radna, and Miriam Stanley to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, August 24 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights... [details »]

Monday August 26 2019, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Soul Sister Revue w/ Phillip B. Williams, Melissa Goodrum & More Soul Sister Revue Cynthia Manick 3 Bleecker Street New York, NY (347) 424-1056 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Join Soul Sister Revue for its Summer event at the Von Bar where we ask "what does Soul mean to you?" Readers include Phillip B. Williams (Thief in the Interior), Melissa Christine Goodrum (something ... [details »]

Thursday August 29 2019, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   Green Series: Meehan Crist on Climate Grief Brooklyn Public Library: Leonard Joel Whitney 81 Devoe St. at Leonard St. Brooklyn, NY 718.486.6006 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

In August's Green Series talk, writer Meehan Crist discusses how traditional notions of grief have become obsolete in the age of climate crisis. After describing how we've lost so many modes of grievi... [details »]

Wednesday September 11 2019, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Narrators of September 11th: Power of the Word Brooklyn Historical Society Steven Thompson 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Brooklyn, NY 718-222-4111 x236 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Following a screening of Wolfgang Staehle’s “2001,” Jessica Chen, Senior Director of Public Programs at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, moderates a conversation with Garrett M. Graff, author of The Only P... [details »]

Monday September 16 2019, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   Artist Books in Action I: politics, race, gender Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Join Franklin Furnace Senior Archivist Michael Katchen as he and two guest panelists take us through the ways performance and visual artists use the medium of artist books. This first event will discu... [details »]

Wednesday September 25 2019, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Billy Bragg Discusses "The Three Dimensions of Freedom" Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Co-presented with Greenlight Books, BPL Presents musician and activist Billy Bragg, in conversation with Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman. Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democraci... [details »]

Wednesday October 2 2019, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   Artist Books in Action II: humor, satire, parody Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Join Franklin Furnace Senior Archivist Michael Katchen as he and two guest panelists take us through the ways performance and visual artists use the medium of artist books. This second event will disc... [details »]

Tuesday October 15 2019, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Franklin Furnace: Performance Is Public Artist Talk & Reception Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

We welcome you to an artist talk with visionary artist and Franklin Furnace Founder Martha Wilson. Reception to follow with light fare and refreshments served. *Image above: Martha Wilson, by Chris... [details »]

Friday November 1 2019, 8:00 PM to Sunday November 3 2019, 8:00 PM      PoetryFest Irish Arts Center Vivian Fong 553 W 51st St, New York, NY 10019 New York, NY (212) 757-3318 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Curated by Nick Laird Presented in association with Glucksman Ireland House NYU Journey into an orbit of ideas and thoughts with some of the world’s most eminent poets from Ireland and North Ame... [details »]

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