The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards, including Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. The ceremony will be held on Zoom at 2pm PT: register here.
Join the Boston.com Book Club for a discussion of The Shame with author Makenna Goodman. This event will be presented on Zoom at 6pm ET, and moderated by Allie Levy, owner of Still North Books & Bar. RSVP here.
Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 and professor of English at the University of South Dakota, presents “Hybrid Identities and Hybrid Poetics: A Talk and Poetry Reading” at the 68th Annual Harrington Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend by signing in here on the day of the event.
Join “Grit and Grace: 43rd Annual ODU Literary Festival” for a virtual reading with Jake Skeets, author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. All festival events are via virtual webinar. Learn more here.
Join “Grit and Grace: 43rd Annual ODU Literary Festival” for a virtual reading with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders. All festival events are via virtual webinar. Learn more here.
Join the Wild and Precious Life Series for an online reading with Benjamin Garcia, author of Thrown in the Throat, Joshua Escobar, Mark Ward, and Jihyun Yun. “Doors” open at 7pm ET and the reading begins at 7:30pm ET. This event will be held on Zoom.
To celebrate the release of AGNI 92, poetry editors Ruben Quesada and Jessica Q. Stark host a series of brief readings and conversations with Cyrus Cassells, Benjamin Garcia, torrin a. greathouse, Shara McCallum, and Vietnamese poet Tue Sy’s English-language translators Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung. Register here.
Denver Field Ornithologists host J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, who will deliver a talk on “Coloring the Conservation Conversation.” This event will be held on Zoom and simultaneously livestreamed at 7pm MT. Register here!
Join Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series for a conversation between Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Milkweed author of World of Wonders, and Jessica J. Lee, author of Two Trees Make a Forest. This event will take place virtually on Zoom at 7pm ET and is free to attend, but registration is required. Register here.
Join the Boston Public Library’s “Never Too Late” group for a reading and discussion with Allison Adair, author of The Clearing. This event will be held on Zoom at 2pm ET. Register to receive the Zoom link.
