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Here is a list of upcoming author events at all four Busboys and Poets locations. For a complete schedule: Busboys and Poets event calendar. If you are interested in booking an event at Busboys and Poets, see Info for Authors and Publishers.

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MAY 2013

Zami: A Circle of LGBTQ Cultural Performances and Discussions
Wed., May 1

6:00-8:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Staceyann Chin
The Other Side of Paradise
Sponsors: Busboys and Poets, Zami
  Thur., May 2
6:30-8:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Stewart Acuff
Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, Institute for Policy Studies

Fri., May 3
6:30-8:30 PM
Location: 14th & V
Eve Ensler
In The Body of the World: A Memoir
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets
Sun., May 5
5:00-7:00 PM
Location: 5th & K
Pamela Olson
Fast times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets
Mon., May 13
6:30-8:30 PM
Location: 14th & V
Etan Thomas, D.C. Youth Slam Team, and Free Minds Book Club
Voices of the Future

Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, D.C. Youth Slam Team, Free Minds Book Club, Split This Rock

Sunday Kind of Love
Sun., May 19

5:00-7:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Richard Blanco joined by Sami Miranda
Looking for The Gulf Motel

Sponsors: Busboys and Poets, Sunday Kind of Love
Tues., May 21
6:30-8:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Gar Alperovitz
What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, The Democracy Collaborative

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Tues., May 28
6:30-8:30 PM
Location: 14th & V
Alice Walker
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
and
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, The New Press


JUNE 2013
Tue., June 4
6:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Fernando Morais, Arnold August, and Stephen Kimber
The Last Soldiers of the Cold War, What Lies Across the Water, and Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion.
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets,The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5.

Tue., June 18
6:30-8:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Taylor Branch in discussion with Eleanor Holmes Norton
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets


Wed., June 19
6:30-8:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Alfredo Corchado
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

 

Wed., June 26
6:30-8:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
George Ciccariello-Maher
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, Institute for Policy Studies
       


JULY 2013

Wed., July 31
6:30-8:00 PM
Location: 5th & K
Rosalie Riegle and Dan McKanan
Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family,and Community and Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace
Sponsors: Busboys and Poets, Jonah House, Murphy Peace Institute, War Resisters League, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker

 

 

 

 
       

 

AUGUST 2013


Tue., Aug 6
6:30-8:00 PM
Location: 14th & V
Sonia Sanchez, Matt Meyer, and Mandy Carter
We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America
Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets
, National War resisters League

 

 

 

 
       


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