“The Mighty Red’s” drama is set against the backdrop of a poor, rural North Dakota town on the Red River of the North, whose sugar beet farming practices deplete the land of nutrients and poison the land and its people with industrial pesticides
Monday, Sept. 30, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Book Release Party for Dean Brownrout’s memoir No Big Deal (Guernica Editions, 2024). No Big Deal is Dean Brownrout’s tragicomic recollection of […]
Monday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m.: Talking Leaves Books and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center present a Poetry Talk by Isaac Jarnot. Jarnot will be speaking about his latest book, Four Lectures, […]
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesday Night Open Mic Series at the Em Tea Coffeecup Café hosted by Verneice Turner. All are welcome whether be you new […]
By R.D. Pohl Monday, 7 p.m.: Ground and Sky Poetry Series Once Trees Bookclub reads from and discusses American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation […]
By R.D. Pohl Thursday, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Lit Garden Writers Poetry reading featuring Joseph Chamberlain, Lynn Ciesielski, Michael Delaney, Donna Grace, George Grace, Joe Todaro, Scott W. Williams […]
By R.D. Pohl Wednesday, 9 p.m.: Poetry Night at Caffe Aroma, biweekly open mic reading series hosted by Ben Brindise and Justin Karcher. 957 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Free and open […]
By RD Pohl Tuesday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesdays at Cabernet, monthly open mic poetry and prose reading series hosted by Sinead Tyrone. Cabernet’s Wine Café , 9 N. […]
Tuesday, 6 p.m.: Book launch party and readings to celebrate publication day for Buffalo-based writer Laura Marris’s new collection of essays The Age of Loneliness (Graywolf Press). Joining Marris will […]
Conversations about death become a celebration of life By: Katherine Xiong Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel “Martyr!” is a celebration of life composed of extended discussions of death. Grief is explored […]
