BABEL: Anthony Doerr
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Anthony Doerr and host Barbara Cole for an in-depth and in-person discussion about his work and his book, All the Light We Cannot See. ...
Check back regularly for upcoming literary events throughout Buffalo and Western New York.
March 2023
April 2023
greenspace with Marty Cain, Sarah Sgro, and Laura Jaramillo
3 poets read outdoors and in public space on the cusp of spring: Marty Cain, Sarah Sgro, and Laura Jaramillo. ...
Reading by Alicia Mountain: Four in Hand
Alicia Mountain will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions, following a brief reading from her poetry collection, Four In Hand. ...
Literary Cafè at CFI featuring Ruth Robson and Ed Taylor
Readings by poet Ruth Robson and poet/novelist Ed Taylor ...
Reading by Margaret Ray: Good Grief, the Ground
Selected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted onto women through personal, political, and national lenses. ...
Reading by Stephen Schottenfeld: This Room Is Made of Noise
In this quietly mesmerizing novel, no one, including the protagonist, is ever entirely sure of their motivations. ...
Reading by Jessica Q. Stark: Buffalo Girl
Jessica Q. Stark will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions, following a brief reading from her poetry collection, Buffalo Girl. Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women’s bodies. ...
Fiction Workshop: The Sentence as an Event with Ravi Mangla
What makes a powerful sentence? How do you write sentences that worm their way into the ear and propel the reader forward? ...
Reading by Mahtem Shiferraw: Nomenclatures of Invisibility
Mahtem Shiferraw will be in conversation with author and poet Peter Conners, Publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions, following a brief reading from her poetry collection Nomenclatures of Invisibility. Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and land. ...
BABEL: Isabel Wilkerson
Join National Book Critics Circle Award-winning and bestselling author Isabel Wilkerson and host Barbara Cole for an in-depth and in-person discussion about her work and her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. ...
June 2023
Agents of Change
Torn Space will collaborate with Lafayette International High School, The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and Just Buffalo Literary Center to present a conference, public performance and art installation focused on local business leaders and entrepreneurs. ...
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