Join the Tulsa City-County Library’s “Blacks on the Oklahoma Frontier” virtual event on Thursday, June 10, 2021 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. to learn about the history of Black cowboys, cowgirls, and rodeo in the Black towns of Oklahoma through an interview … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Blacks on the Oklahoma Frontier with Keith Ryan Cartwright
The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will be featuring Indigo Moor, author of Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something (Backwaters Press, 2021), and Jennifer K. Sweeney, author of Foxlogic, Fireweed (Backwaters Press, 2020), in their Second Tuesday Poetry reading event. The remote event is … Continue reading Indigo Moor and Jennifer K. Sweeney featured in Second Tuesday Poetry
Join the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association’s sponsored Lunch & Learn on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 via Zoom where three outstanding Coast Guard women authors will be discussing their recently published books. CAPT Martha LaGuardia-Kotite USCGR (ret) ’89 will … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Lunch & Learn with Martha LaGuardia-Kotite
C’RONA Pandemic Comics is a collection of short comics and essays developed to help youth understand the complexities of living through a viral pandemic. The stories focus on three themes: the biology and social context of the COVID-19 virus; the relationship … Continue reading C’RONA Pandemic Comics Display at the Nebraska State Capitol
Join Francie and Finch Bookstore for the virtual event “Writing and Reporting Nowhere into Somewhere with Robert McNally and Ray March in conversation with University of Nebraska Press Editor Matt Bokovoy” via Zoom on May 18, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Robert McNally & Ray March in Conversation with UNP Editor Matt Bokovoy
Join Francie & Finch Bookshop for “Virtually a Reading” with Hilda Raz and Grace Bauer on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. CST on Zoom. The authors will be in conversation with Kwame Dawes and reading from their upcoming … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Poetry Reading with Hilda Raz & Grace Bauer
Join Tom Shieber, Senior Curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and UWM Professor Emeritus Lawrence Baldassaro, author of Beyond DiMaggio and Baseball Italian Style, for a virtual conversation via Zoom hosted by Boswell Book Company about his major … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Larry Baldassaro in conversation with Tom Shieber
In honor of the 40th anniversary of STS-1, the first launch of the Columbia Space Shuttle, authors from our Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight Series are coming together on April 10, 2021 for an online event, Columbia and … Continue reading Outward Odyssey Authors: Remembering STS-1
Join the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles and their Scholar in Residence, Alison Rose Jefferson, M.H.C. | Ph.D. for a symposium via Zoom, titled “Promised Land, Hallowed Ground: Commemorative Justice and Making Change in Community Heritage Preservation in Southern California”, with invited … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Promised Land, Hallowed Ground with Alison Rose Jefferson
Patrick Madden is the author of three UNP books, most recently the essay collection Disparates (Nebraska, 2020). Every March, Ander Monson and Megan Campbell organize several dozen writers to gather inspiration from 64 songs strategically chosen to represent a phase … Continue reading Vote for Patrick Madden for March Plaidness
