Celebrate the publication date of Irvin Weathersby Jr's new book "In Open Contempt" with an insightful author talk and signing at Baldwin & Co bookstore in New Orleans. The author will be in conversation with Brandan “BMIKE” Odums.

Join us for readings featuring Irvin Weathersby Jr., Joseph O'Neill, Kevin Maloney, Kristen Felicetti, and Dolan Morgan. Enjoy drink specials and mingling with fellow lit enthusiasts, plus a free-to-enter book raffle! Free Admission!

How do we reckon with ongoing anti-Black racism in the United States, as represented by monuments, street signs, and schools named after slaveowners, segregationists, and white supremacists? In this debut book, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby Jr. engages curators, city planners, and artists—including Brooklyn Museum collection artists Titus Kaphar and Kara Walker—whose work considers the specter of white supremacy in public spaces. The author will be conversation with Robert Jones Jr.

The 19th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration from WNYC and the Apollo Theater will explore Dr. King’s enduring legacy through the lens of belonging, reflecting on his vision for a just and inclusive society. Join us for this inspiring tribute as we honor Dr. King’s dream and engage in a timely dialogue on the ongoing project of forging an equitable society. 

Hosted by Sarah Bridgins and Lena Valencia, Ditmas Lit is a monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. On the fourth Wednesday of every month, we gather at The Urbane Arts Club at 8PM to listen as poets, essayists, fiction writers, and storytellers share their work.

Must Love Memoir is a NYC-based reading series dedicated to creative nonfiction writers. It's a monthly event, founded and hosted by Krystal Marie Orwig and co-hosted by Hope Elizabeth Kidd. Each month, a line-up of 6 writers step up to the mic to tell their personal stories. Free and open to the public!

Each semester, distinguished authors visit the Writer’s Foundry to deliver master lectures on notable works of writing. Each visiting lecturer is asked to speak, one writer to another, on literary concerns of the featured book.

Join us for a reading with author, Irvin Weathersby Jr. (Nonfiction '09) as he sits down with Randy Winston (Fiction '16) to discuss his memoir In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space.

Sunday Salon is a larger than life reading series in NYC featuring a refreshing blend of local and international literary voices.