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Thursday January 23 2020, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   Green Series: Emily Raboteau on "Lessons in Survival" Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney programs@bklynlibrary.org Brooklyn, NY 7182302200 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

For the January Green Series, author Emily Raboteau discusses her recent piece in The New York Review of Books on surviving climate change catastrophes. Discussing two recent books on sea level rise, ... [details »]

Saturday January 25 2020, 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!)

Julie Bentsen, Maria Chisolm, Roxanne Hoffman, Freida Jones, and Prince A. McNally to rock Brownstone Poets on Saturday, January 25, at 2:30 p.m. at Park Plaza Restaurant in historic Brooklyn Heights... [details »]

Tuesday January 28 2020, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Notes Going Underground: Joram Piatigorsky's Book Launch Authors, Large and Small Cristina Deptula 2020 Broadway New York City, NY 5105898252 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

“Dying is very relaxing,” we learn in Notes Going Underground. This and other musings on life and death at the launch of Joram’s latest short story collection. About Joram Piatigorsky: Scienti... [details »]

Monday February 3 2020, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   "AGATHE:" A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOEL AGEE AND SUSAN BERNOFSKY 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 event which will focus on Joel Agee’s new translation of Robert Musil’s Agathe; or, The Forgotten Sister. Joel Agee will be in conversation with the translator Susan Bernofsky. About the book: Ag... [details »]

Monday February 3 2020, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM   An evening of poetry and discussion Stella Adler Studio of Acting Nina 65 Broadway New York, NY 2126890087 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents an evening of poetry and discussion with Grace Schulman, Gregory Pardlo and Anders Carlson-Wee Monday, February 3, 2020 at 7pm Free and open to the ... [details »]

Monday February 3 2020, 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM   Necromancers of the Public Domain Theater of the Apes Ayun Haliday 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor New York, NY 212-563-6269 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Each month, Theater of the Apes plucks a long forgotten volume from the shelves of the New York Society Library to resurrect as a low budget variety show. Up next: New York: The Nation’s Metropolis... [details »]

Friday February 7 2020, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM   "WINTERLUST:" AN EVENING WITH BERND BRUNNER AND TESS LEWIS 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!)

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author Bernd Brunner from his new book, Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season, (in a translation by Mary Catherine Lawler) followed by a con... [details »]

Monday March 9 2020, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Celebrating Six Years of Poets in Residence Stella Adler Studio of Acting Nina 65 Broadway New York, NY 2126890087 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Six Years of Poets in Residence Monday, March 9, 2020 at 7pm With Sonia Sanchez, inaugural resident Yusef Komunyakaa, 2016 resident Idra Novey, 2017 resident Gregory Pardlo, 2018 resident Grace ... [details »]

Thursday April 30 2020, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   Green Series: Aronoff, Battistoni, Cohen, and Riofrancos Brooklyn Public Library Joel Whitney programs@bklynlibrary.org Brooklyn, NY 7182302200 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics. The age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequalities of race and class. We need profound, r... [details »]

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