One Pause Poetry and White Lotus Farms are pleased to welcome Gary Snyder, who has been called “the poet laureate of Deep Ecology” and “the Thoreau of the Beat Generation,” for a reading at the farm on September 17.
Literati welcomes Professor Caryl Flinn (BFI Film Classics: The Sound of Music), Professor Markus Nornes (Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness), Professor Yeidy Rivero (Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television 1950-106), Associate Professor Matthew Solomon (BFI Film Classics: The Gold Rush) and Assistant Professor Colin Gunckel (Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II), to celebrate the release of, and sign, their recent scholarly publications.
Next Chapter launches its Poetry Reading and Open Mic series with readings from eight Michigan Poetry Society poets.
Literati welcomes Patrick Wensink in support of his latest novel, Fake Fruit Factory (September 2015, Curbside Splendor). Reading with Patrick will be friend of the store Aaron Burch, the editor of Hobart: Another Literary Journal and author of the story collection Backswing (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2014)
Patrick Wensink is the author of three works of fiction, including the bestselling Broken Piano for President, and a forthcoming essay collection. He frequently contributes to publications like New York Times, Oxford American, Salon, and Huffington Post. He once sold his own line of BBQ Sauce, was married in a doughnut shop, and got punched in the mouth so hard he lost a tooth. (Not all at the same time.) He lives in Louisville, KY with his wife and son.
Nicola’s Books will join other bookstores across the country to celebrate ‘Curiosity Day,’ an annual event that promotes the joy of reading and learning with everyone’s favorite monkey, Curious George. For two hours it will be everything Curious George – books, games, art and activities. Costume contest at 11:00 am (for both kids and adults); come as your favorite character in a Curious George book. Beverages and snacks will also be served throughout the event.
Kate Mendeloff and the RC Visiting Artists program welcome Alice Eve Cohen, playwright, author and actor, for a production of “Thin Walls” — a play about a microcosm of the urban landscape at a turbulent time in New York City’s history. Set in a century-old residential building, once elegant and now run-down, the darkly humorous and deeply moving play interweaves the stories of the building’s long-time residents, its recent arrivals and its ghosts, as the end of the 20th century approaches.
Alice Eve Cohen’s plays and solo pieces have been produced around the world. Ms. Cohen has also written for television, and her fiction has been published by Simon and Schuster and Heinenmann Press. She has received fellowships, grants and commissions from New York State Council on the ARts, Dance Theatre Workshop and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as an Emmy Award Commendation and numerous awards from Poets and Writers, Meet the Composer andASCAP. She received her BA from Princeton University and her MFA from the New School University, where she teaches solo theatre. She works with Lincoln Center Institute, and is the founding editor-in-chief of Theatre Development Fund’s educational theatre journal, Play by Play.
All poets invited to compete in a poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a poetry open mike and (occasionally) a short set by a featured poet.
8-11 p.m. (sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m.), $5 suggested donation. A2poetry.com.
Includes a talk on the therapeutic power of memoir writing and a book signing of the author’s memoir, What You Feel Is Real.
Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early. September theme: Nerds and Geeks. $8. Doors open, and sign up start at 6.
