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Thursday January 29 2015, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Roger Rosenblatt: The Book of Love 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!)

The New York Times bestselling author of Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a meditation on a universal subject: love. In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and... [details »]

Friday January 30 2015, 8:00 PM to Sunday February 8 2015, 3:00 PM      40th annual Thunderbird American Dancers Dance Concert and Pow W Theater For The New City Jonathan Slaff 155 First Avenue New York City, NY 2122541109 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

TNC PRESENTS ITS 40th ANNUAL THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN DANCERS' DANCE CONCERT AND POW-WOW JANUARY 30 TO FEBRUARY 8, 2015. All proceeds benefit Native American scholarship fund. WHERE AND WHEN: ... [details »]

Monday February 2 2015, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Brooklyn by the Book: Ron Lieber BPL/Congregation Beth Elohim Joel Whitney 274 Garfield Place Brooklyn, NY 718-230-2100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Brooklyn by the Book's Spring season begins with Ron Lieber in conversation with Jennifer Senior. New York Times “Your Money” columnist Ron Lieber says that parents should talk about money much more o... [details »]

Saturday February 7 2015, 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West Brooklyn, NY 917 679 5002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Howard Pflanzer and George Spencer, Saturday, February 7 at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant Brownstone Poets presents Howard Pflanzer and George Spencer, Saturday, February 7 at 2:30 p.m. at Par... [details »]

Tuesday February 10 2015, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM   Pen Parentis Literary Salon: What do we LOVE more? Pen Parentis Milda De Voe The ANDAZ Wall Street, 75 Wall Street (Enter on Water or Pearl) New York, NY 212-501-2031 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Pen Parentis presents Andrew Lewis Conn, Stephanie Lehmann, and Siobhan Adcock—three fantastic authors who are also parents reading from their newest creative works. ... [details »]

Wednesday February 11 2015, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Peniel Joseph on Stokely Carmichael and Black Power Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718-230-2200 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Peniel Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and the author of "Stokely: A Life", and the award-winning Waiting "‘til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America". S... [details »]

Saturday February 14 2015, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM   Love Happens NY Poetry Forum Daniel Fernandez Soldiers', Sailors' Marines' & Airmen's Club 283 Lexington Ave New York, NY 917 679 5002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

LOVE HAPPENS AT THE NEW YORK POETRY FORUM Saturday, February 14 from 2 to 5:30ish p.m. Patricia Carragon with Edward Fisher and Marvin Goldfarb The New York Poetry Forum Soldiers', Sailor... [details »]

Thursday February 19 2015, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Civil Rights in Black & White: Through a Lens Darkly... Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718-230-2200 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Inspired by Deborah Willis’s book, "Reflections in Black", "Through a Lens Darkly" casts a broad net that begins with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris’s family album. It considers the difference between ... [details »]

Saturday February 21 2015, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM   Gotham: New York City’s Best Writers: Richard Ford Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 718-230-2200 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

In "Let Me Be Frank with You", Ford reinvents his character Frank Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret... [details »]

Wednesday February 25 2015, 11:15 AM to 12:45 PM   Great Writers, Great Readings presents D.T. Max Hofstra University Helene Morris Hofstra University, Guthart Cultural Center Theater Hempstead, NY 516-463-5410 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

D.T. Max, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author of the New York Times best-seller Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (2012), as well as The Family That Couldn’... [details »]

Wednesday February 25 2015, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Claudia Rankine and Robert Hass Barnard College Lindsay Stuffle 3009 Broadway at 117th Street New York, NY 212-854-2037 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Barnard College welcomes award-winning poets Claudia Rankine and Robert Hass for a reading of their recent works. Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric, Don't Let Me Be Lonely, P... [details »]

Saturday February 28 2015, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM   Novel Ideas: A LitWorld VoiceThread Unconference LitWorld and VoiceThread George Haines 1141 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 NY, NY 516-660-5995 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

This unconference is for educators who work at the intersection of literacy and technology. At VoiceThread, we believe in conversations, not presentations, and the unconference model embodies that bel... [details »]

Saturday February 28 2015, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West Brooklyn, NY 917 679 5002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Brownstone Poets 2014 Anthology Book Event at Park Plaza Restaurant A Celebration of Poetry and Prose from Poets from Brownstone Poets Reading Series Saturday, February 28 at 2:30 p.m. Park ... [details »]

Saturday March 7 2015, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM   NYC Feminist Zine Fest Barnard College Lindsay Stuffle 3009 Broadway at 117th Street New York, NY 212-854-2037 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

For the second consecutive year, Barnard College proudly hosts the Feminist Zine Fest, showcasing the work of artists and zine-makers that identify on the feminist spectrum. Home of the renowned Barna... [details »]

Wednesday March 18 2015, 11:15 AM to 12:45 PM   Great Writers, Great Readings presents Quiara Alegría Hudes Hofstra University Helene Morris Hofstra University, Guthart Cultural Center Theater Hempstead, NY 516-463-5410 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Quiara Alegría Hudes wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights and is most recently the author of The Elliot Trilogy, three stand-alone plays that trace the coming of a... [details »]

Thursday March 19 2015, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Barnes and Noble Booksellers Park Slope 267 Seventh Ave Brooklyn, NY 917 679 5002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Brownstone Poets 2014 Anthology Book Event at Barnes & Noble Booksellers Park Slope A Celebration of Poetry and Prose from Poets from Brownstone Poets Reading Series Thursday, March 19 fr... [details »]

Wednesday April 22 2015, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Great Writers, Great Readings presents Quiara Alegría Hudes Hofstra University Helene Morris Hofstra University, Guthart Cultural Center Theater Hempstead, NY 516-463-5410 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Elizabeth Spires is the author of six collections of poetry: Globe, Swan’s Island, Annonciade, Worldling, Now the Green Blade Rises, and The Wave-Maker. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The ... [details »]

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