Join Milkweed Books and Nodin Press in celebrating Rocked by the Waters, an anthology of poems on motherhood co-edited by Margaret Hasse and Athena Kildegaard.

Left Margin Lit welcomes Rick Barot, author of The Galleons, and Victoria Chang for an evening of poetry reading.

Join Barrington Public Library as they welcome the author of this year’s Reading Across Rhode Island selection, Elizabeth Rush. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore is her highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.

This panel explores social media as a political space critical to writers today. Panelists will discuss digital citizenship; the fight for inclusivity, vulnerability, accountability, allyship, discourse, and understanding in writing and publishing; and the effects of that fight on personal and professional lives.

Literati Bookstore welcomes poets Tracy Zeman and John McCarthy to read from their most recent collections, Empire and Scared Violent Like Horses.

The Off Campus Writers’ Workshop welcomes John McCarthy (Scared Violent Like Horses) as a workshop instructor for Transcending the Narrative: reimagining how we write emotions into poetry and prose.

Inklings Bookshop is excited to have Brooke Matson read from In Accelerated Silence.