6/29 Honey Mine Launch! Camille Roy with Eileen Myles, hosted by City Lights!

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Join us on Tuesday, June 29th at 6PM PT / 9PM ET for the launch of Honey Mine: Collected Stories by Camille Roy (edited by Lauren Levin and Eric Sneathen) who will be joined by Eileen Myles, hosted by City Lights!   RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camille-roy-in-conversation-with-eileen-myles-tickets-157753877093

6/30 – Gillian Osborne and Jen Bervin discuss Green Green Green!

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We hope you will join us June 30th at 9pm EDT as Gillian Osborne and Jen Bervin discuss Green Green Green, a collection of hybrid essays that engage the intersection of habitats, horticulture, and histories both poetic and personal!   Rsvp here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/greengreengreen/register

7/18 – O | Sessions: Black Listening

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Please join us Sunday, July 18, at 4pm EST for a conversation with Lauren K. Alleyne, featuring Duriel E. Harris, Douglas Kearney, avery r. young, and Nightboat author Rosamond S. King. The first event of Obsidian's new series, O|Sessions, Black Listening will investigate the role of listening and improvisation in performance, centering Black creative expression and […]

8/12 – Poetry & BYOBiscuits with Divya Victor

Please join us on Thursday, August 12, for a *virtual* salon-style reading series featuring Ruben Quesada, George Abraham, Nathan Hoks, and Nightboat author Divya Victor. Poetry & Biscuit's pandemic series, curated by Carrie Olivia Adams and Fred Schmalz in partnership with Black Ocean, features poets in dialogue, not only sharing their work, but their questions, ideas, and […]

9/17 – A celebration of Camille Roy’s Honey Mine!

The Lab 2948 16th St, San Francisco

Please join us on Friday, September 17, at 7:00pm PT in celebration of Honey Mine: Collected Stories! Presented by Small Press Traffic and guest hosted by Anne Walsh, the evening will consist of readings by Claudia La Rocco and Camille Roy and an exhibition + talk with ZH Leonard. RSVP here: https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/sept-rsvp. Book: https://nightboat.org/book/honey-mine/.

9/17 – Andrea Abi-Karam: Villainy reading

Books Are Magic 225 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Join us on Friday, September 17, at 7pm ET for a *virtual* reading by Villainy author Andrea Abi-Karam, NM Esc, Sahar Khraibani, Andrea Lawlor, Eileen Myles, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Their second book, Abi-Karam's Villainy answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice it was destined to be, at heart aiming to destroy […]

9/23 – Andrea Abi-Karam in conversation with Randa Jarrar!

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Please join us on Thursday, September 23, at 7:30pm ET for a *virtual* conversation with Villainy author Andrea Abi-Karam and Randa Jarrar! Abi-Karam's second book, Villainy harnesses street protest as a poetic formation, both embodying direct action and exhibiting the desires that bring queers into public space.   RSVP here: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-andrea-abi-karam-discusses-villainy-randa-jarrar

9/29 – Divya Victor at The Poetry Project

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Please join us on September 29 at 8:00pm ET! In conjunction with the recent publication of CURB, Nightboat author Divya Victor joins Serena Rose Chopra, Kama La Mackerel, Aditi Machado, and Prageeta Sharma for a *virtual* evening of readings and conversation tracing breadths of South Asian diasporic experience. Across a range of inquiries, five poets consider the textual scaffoldings of […]

//CLUB LIT// ft. Hazem Fahmy, Zaina Arafat, Sahar Khraibani, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, & Andrea Abi-Karam

Backyard Reading Hancock St & Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, New York

Please join us on Saturday, October 16, @ 7:30pm ET for a backyard reading with Hazem Fahmy, Zaina Arafat, Sahar Khraibani, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, and Nightboat author Andrea Abi-Karam. As a creative response to the ongoing political turmoil we keep finding ourselves in, this assemblage of NYC based SWANA writers will convene to deal with […]

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