Upcoming Events

Reuben Jackson is the featured poet at Chesapeake Public Library's upcoming Black Ink Literary Festival. From the website: Listen to music and poetry, take a writing workshop, or find a new author at our third annual outdoor festival highlighting local authors, poets, and musicians of color. Much of this event will take place outdoors. More […]

On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, Poets vs The Pandemic will present readings from the anthology, This is What America Looks Like. The program will being at 7:00 pm (EDT). Register using the form at the bottom of this page: https://sites.google.com/view/cafe-muse-events/home?fbclid=IwAR0kzCaW_l8R_lxr8PddfW7B3jzqOEQtg5sgz7eF-bRJ0ZfEh94TWEGfYhI

On Monday, November 1, 2021, Café Muse will present Katherine E. Young and Jessica Cuello. from 7:30pm - 8:30pm (ET). The chatroom opens at 7pm and features Classical guitar, played by Michael C. Davis and set to a photo slideshow. Register at the bottom of the page here: https://sites.google.com/view/cafe-muse-events/home?fbclid=IwAR0kzCaW_l8R_lxr8PddfW7B3jzqOEQtg5sgz7eF-bRJ0ZfEh94TWEGfYhI

  The Italian American Writers Association presents Maryland PL Grace Cavalieri and Arizona PL Rosemarie Dombrowski. Open-mic to open the show at 6pm sharp Register HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUufu2trT8qGdcVFsGQzhMsXKHG2ayt274U ; Doors close at 6:15!

From the website: The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of fiction! We’re joined by Dave Housley to discuss his new novel, The Other Ones. Dave is in conversation with Tara Campbell, author and Vice-Chair of The Writer’s Center Board of Directors. Register HERE

Fifty years after its release, vocalist/composer Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, an extended work addressing societal (and personal) challenges, has grown more pertinent and haunting with age. Jazz archivist and poet Reuben Jackson shares tracks from and discusses this riveting recording. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2waVvJBuT5OPyq6KKRoi1Q

Dave Housley will read from his new novel, “The Other Ones,” in the February edition of Readings on the Pike, a monthly virtual reading series. Check here for further information and to sign up: https://www.facebook.com/groups/285878148678503 (will be updated closer to event)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-other-ones-by-dave-housley-and-subtexts-by-dan-brady-tickets-255231984737?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Join us for the launch of two incredible new books! Dave Housley's THE OTHER ONES and Dan Brady's SUBTEXTS! About this event What would you do if a group of your fellow office workers won the lottery? The Other Ones tracks the actions and reactions of multiple characters in the wake of this cataclysmic event, tracing […]

Rose Solari will be a panelist at the Day Eight annual literary conference. The theme this year is literary reviewing. Details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-arts-journalism-conference-the-crisis-in-book-review-tickets-210042602077https://dayeight.org/

"The march of history, the march toward history, the march toward love and its mysteries— these are the concerns of our electrifying March poets Saida Agostini, Nathan McClain, and Tina Barry.   Join us Wednesday!" Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsdOyrrDguGdcUn3kKQtcwZIGg2uF_rC7S?utm_source=Next%20Year%27s%20Words:%20A%20New%20Paltz%20Reader%27s%20Forum&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7b1fc8c8d9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_10_05_52&utm_term=0_0e2c2e4daf-7b1fc8c8d9-375263678

ASP at AWP: We’ll be at Booth 762 in the Bookfair at AWP 2022 in Philadelphia! Come out and see the team, fraternize, enjoy some complementary complements

Just a short walk from the Philadelphia Convention Center during AWP, Saida Agostini and Dave Housley will be reading reading from their new ASP titles, let the dead in (poems) and The Other Ones (a novel). Featuring ASP authors Elizabeth Hazen, Reuben Jackson, and Richard Peabody And special guests Teri Ellen Cross Davis and Leslie […]

Novelist Marlene Hauser and poet Elizabeth Hazen talk about their latest works and about women and family, expectations and the challenges women face in an unequal world. Elizabeth Hazen is a poet, essayist, and teacher. A Maryland native, she came of age in a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the pre-internet, grunge-tinted 1990s, when women were […]

Afro-Guyanese poet Saida Agostini talks about the themes of her work including black womenhood, queerness, the legacy of colonisation, and pleasure, and reads some of her poems. Agostini’s first full poetry collection, Let the Dead In, was a finalist in the Center of African American Poetry and Poetics 2020 Book Prize and the New Issues Poetry […]

British and American novelists Patrick Gale and David Downie discuss their writing and their approach to place and atmosphere in their works. Gale is one of Britain’s best-known writers including of A Perfectly Good Man, Notes From An Exhibition, the Costa shortlisted A Place Called Winter and Take Nothing With You. He lives in Cornwall and his novels often evoke […]