White Whale Bookstore is overjoyed to host a belated Valentine’s Day reading (because there’s no wrong time to celebrate love!) featuring six poets their poems about love: Faylita Hicks, Benjamin Garcia, Jubi Arriola-Headley, Kenzie Allen, Allison Adair, and Matthew Olzmann. This event will be held on Zoom at 8pm ET. Register here!

Flyleaf Books hosts Deirdre McNamer for a reading and discussion of Aviary, in conversation with Jill McCorkle. This event will be held on Zoom at 6pm EST. Learn more here!

The Book Catapult hosts Kazim Ali for a reading and discussion of Northern Light, in conversation with Darrel McLeod. This event will be held on Zoom at 5pm PT. Learn more here!

Join acclaimed poets Fady Joudah, author of Tethered to Stars, and Andrea Cohen reading from recent work and talking about their practice. Register here for the Zoom link.

Acclaimed poet, novelist, and essayist Kazim Ali joins the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Milkweed Editions to launch his new memoir, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. Ali will be joined in conversation by poet and scholar Billy-Ray Belcourt. Register here!

Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Carolyn Finney join The Loft Literary Center for this “Big Ideas” conversation on the ways our racial identities shape our relationships to the natural world. Register here!

Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual panel discussion with debut authors Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat), Emily Hashimoto (A World Between) and Poupeh Missaghi (trans(re)lating house one), moderated by Lupita Reads. This event is free and open to all ages, but RSVP is required. Learn more here!