Five events this Summer solstice week in the Buffalo literary community.

Tuesday, June 17, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesday Night Open Mic Series at the Em Tea Coffeecup Café. All are welcome whether new to poetry or a long-time member of the community. 80 Oakgrove Ave., Buffalo, NY. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, June 18, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Zine Making with Jordan Roth.

What does resistance mean to you? There are many, many forms of resistance: in art and in life. In this workshop, Jordan will facilitate discussions about resistance in creating art – visual and written – and participants will create and leave with a zine (or a couple) of their own.

Zines themselves are a form of resistance, a subversive way for people to share their ideas and find community. Jordan Roth (she/they) is a storyteller, curator, and zine-maker based in Western New York. Through collage, photography, painting, and other forms, they create art from an intersectional queer and feminist perspective.

Art’s Café in the Springville Center for the Arts, 5 East Main Street, Springville, New York 14141. Free and open to the public.

Wednesday, June 18, 7:30 p.m.: The Screening Room Reading Series hosted by poet Sandy Geary. Open mic format this month in celebration of Bill Geary—the longtime official timekeeper of the series—on his recent 90th birthday. Poems about birthdays or aging are welcomed. The Screening Room Cinema Café, 880 Alberta  Drive, Amherst. $3.

Saturday, June 21, Noon to 2:30 p.m.: International Open Poetry Series reading at Centro Culturale Italiano Di Buffalo, 2351 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo.

Join poets Perry Nicholas and Verneice Turner for Centro Culturale di Italiano Di Buffalo’s summertime International Open Poetry Reading. Share an original poem or your favorite verse about what this season of growth, abundance, and light means to you. There will be a sign-up sheet at the door. Preliminary meet & greet in the Café, where refreshments will be available for purchase is at noon. Reading begins at 1 p.m. in the building’s auditorium at 1 p.m. Admission is $5.00 for non-members. Members attend free.

Saturday, June 21, 6 p.m.: Blue Bag Press presents “Buffalo & Niagara <TOXI-CITIES>,” an evening of poetry to celebrate the release of Buffalo-based poet Joe Hall’s latest limited run project, Shit, Slips, also featuring readings by Thom Eichelberger-Young and Rachelle Toarmino.

Thom Eichelberger-Young of Blue Bag Press is doing a small run of Hall’s poems written across the last dozen years that feature bodily waste. It’s called Shit, Slips; it’s moderately dank; and it will be printed on a receipt tape scroll by betweenthehighway press. It also includes meditations on imperialism and waste. For now, this publication will be print only.

Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant Street, Buffalo. Free and open to the public.