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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.
View our Previous Author Events.
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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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
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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 |
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Wed., June 19 |
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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
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Wed., July 31 |
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AUGUST 2013
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Tue., Aug 6 |
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