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Author Events
Here is a list of upcoming author events at all three 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.
FEBRUARY 2012
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A.C.T.O.R. Series Sun., Feb. 5 5:00-7:00 PM Location: 14th & V Tema Okun The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know |
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Mon., Feb. 13 6:30-8:30 PM Location: 14th & V Daniel Imhoff Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill |
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Wed., Feb. 15 6:30-8:00 PM Location: 14th & V John Nichols Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, Progressive Democrats of America |
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Thurs., Feb. 16 6:30-8:00 PM Location: 14th & V Joanne Griffith with Courtland Cox and Freddie Greene Biddle Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, Pacifica Radio Archives, WPFW |
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Fri., Feb. 17 6:30-8:30 PM Location: 14th & V Rebecca Walker with panelists Jamyla Bennu, Helena Andrews, Johnica Reed Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, The Root |
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Mon., Feb. 20 6:30-8:30 PM Location: 14th & V Doron Petersan Sticky Fingers' Sweets: 100 Super-Secret Vegan Recipes Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets |
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Mon., Feb. 20 5:00-7:00 PM Location: 5th & K Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi Love, InshaAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women Sponsors: Busboys and Poets, South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), The Buxton Initiative, WIN (Women's Information Network) |
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Tues., Feb. 21 6:30-8:30 PM Location: 14th & V G. Derek Musgrove Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, IMPACT, Institute for Policy Studies, ACLU of the Nation's Capital |
MARCH 2012
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Tues., Mar. 6 6:00-8:00 PM Location: 5th & K Mike Zweig The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret |
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Thurs-Sun., Mar. 22-25 6:30-8:00 PM Split This Rock Poetry Festival |
APRIL 2012
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Tues., Apr. 3 6:30-8:00 PM Location: 14th & V Jaclyn Friedman What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girls Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets |
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Mon., Apr. 9 6:30-8:00 PM Location: 14th & V Lisa Delpit "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets |
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Thurs., Apr. 26 6:30-8:00 PM Location: 14th & V Elijah Anderson The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life Sponsors: Teaching for Change, Busboys and Poets, Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech |
