Here are some upcoming events unearthed via the interwebs:
Ada Books presents an evening of poetry, Saturday, November 14th at 6pm, featuring Oni Buchanan and Karl Gartung.
Friday the 13th of November, the Providence Athenaeum will be hosting "Part Five: Candy Adriance on the long and winding road to a library in a Kenyan village" at 7pm. The event listing heralds a discussion of why the library is the center of the universe. An exclusive universe, in this instance, as it is only open to Athenaeum members and their guests.
On Thursday, November 19 at 6pm, Symposium Books (240 Westminster St) presents a Reading with Craig Watson, who, besides having written eleven books of poetry, lays further claim to coolness by choosing to live "on an island at the mouth of Narragansett Bay."
Also on Thursday, Nov. 19, Samantha Hunt will be reading at Brown's McCormack Family Theater at 2:30pm. This is a rare fiction event, although she is also listed as a writer of plays and essays, so these may be incorporated into the reading as well. I am beginning to suspect a conspiracy against prose (perhaps because it is such an ugly word?) within the providence literary scene.
Just to readily disprove my thoroughly unresearched anti-prose theory, the next three events at the Brown Literary Arts Program are fictional, as in readings of fiction happening in reality. Most excitingly, here's advance notice that Rhode Island's own (by way of Brooklyn) Jhumpa Lahiri will be reading on Tuesday, December 1st at 2:30pm at 001 Salomon Center for Teaching.
- Jessica
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this is really great, and i foresee your finding LOTS of grateful followers. it saves everyone the "unearthing" process ... an enjoyable process, but one we sometimes neglect, thereby missing worthwhile events. the artists and venues will appreciate it, too, of course — in a big way (!!). i also love the utterly self-explanatory title. and i hope for each of these events, you'll remind us again and again, as the dates get closer, perhaps with some sort of graphical schedule on the right, with links to your text, if that were possible. perhaps even what's happening This Very Evening ... or some such thing. anyway, it's great.
ReplyDeleteoops, just noticed you've already done it ... the scheduling thing ... of course ... awesome.
ReplyDeleteDear ProvLit, i heart you. Where have you been all my RI life?
ReplyDeleteI went to a reading by Jhumpa Lahiri at Barnard College a couple of years ago. It was great. Thanks for the jog on the December 1 event.
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