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Thursday October 18 2018, 6:30 PM to Saturday October 20 2018, 8:00 PM      Inaugural Ambedkar Lectures 2018 Barnard College Alex Greenwald Barnard and Columbia Campuses West 117th Street and Broadway New York, NY 2128542037 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society invites you to the Inaugural Ambedkar Lectures. This series of three lectures features discussions of social justice, affirmative action, and demo... [details »]

Thursday October 18 2018, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM   Third Thursday Poetry Night Poetry Motel Foundation Dan Wilcox Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave. Albany, NY 5184820262 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

A reading by local poet Dineen Carta, author of Loving the Ache: A Woman's Journery, with an open mic for community poets. Donation supports poetry events & the work of the Social Justice Center.... [details »]

Monday October 22 2018, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM   Literary Salon: History, Memory, Craft Barnard College Alex Greenwald Event Oval, The Diana Center West 117th Street and Broadway New York, NY 2128542037 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Award-winning authors Zinzi Clemmons and Crystal Hana Kim, whose works explore the intimate legacies of political upheaval, race, migration, sexuality, motherhood, trauma and loss, and the malleabilit... [details »]

Tuesday October 23 2018, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   The Dash: A discussion with S. Žižek, R. Comay, and F. Ruda Deutsches Haus at NYU Deutsches Haus at NYU 42 Washington Mews New York, NY 2129988660 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Department of German at NYU and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a discussion between Slavoj Žižek, Rebecca Comay, and Frank Ruda which will revolve around Comay and Ruda's book The Dash—The Other Si... [details »]

Thursday October 25 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Andy Fogel and Andrea Fry Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Andy Fogle (Saratoga Springs, NY) is the author of five previous chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Last Apprenticeship (White Knuckle Press) and The Neighborhood We Left (Finishing Line Press). O... [details »]

Friday October 26 2018, 7:30 PM to Sunday November 4 2018, 9:30 PM      Words on the Street Colleen Verbus 55 Lexington Avenue New York, NY, NY 2123523101 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Words on the Street is a mystery, a ”what-done-it,” a crime in which all humanity is complicit. Baby is abducted. The Seven Deadly Sins call a summit meeting at which they play out their power struggl... [details »]

Saturday October 27 2018, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West Brooklyn, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Bernard and Diane Block, G.E. Schwartz, Katrinka Moore, and Karen Neuberg Five fabulous poets, Bernard and Diane Block, G.E. Schwartz, Katrinka Moore, and Karen Neuberg will feature for Brownst... [details »]

Tuesday October 30 2018, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM   Bellevue Literary Review: "Off the Page" Bellevue Literary Review Stacy Bodziak NYU Langone Health, 550 First Avenue, Schwartz Lecture Hall E New York, NY 212-263-3973 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

To celebrate the publication of the Bellevue Literary Review's latest issue, on the theme of "Displacement," editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri hosts an evening of readings by actors from stage and screen.... [details »]

Tuesday October 30 2018, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Kiese Laymon presents Heavy: An American Memoir Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 7182302100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Few writers are able to expose the enduring failures of American society through the lens of a personal narrative with unflinching candor and raw vulnerability. Genre-bending essayist and novelist Kie... [details »]

Sunday November 4 2018, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM   15th Annual brevitas Festival of the Short Poem brevitas Poets Amy Barone 308 Bowery New York, NY 646 942 4972 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

At the 15th Annual brevitas Festival of the Short Poem—brevitas poets read their best original poems of the year, which are projected; the new brevitas Anthology is unveiled; books are signed; and lit... [details »]

Thursday November 8 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring George Drew Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

George Drew (Poestenkill, NY) is the author of The View from Jackass Hill, 2010 winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press; which also published Down & Dirty (2015), and his New & Se... [details »]

Friday November 16 2018, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM   Jonathan Franzen presents The End of the End of the Earth Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 7182302100 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

In "The End of the End of the Earth," which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes—both human and literary—that ha... [details »]

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