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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:About the Series:\nThe Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Elizabeth Bryant and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. The intention is to bring something new to this area with offerings that provide a space for horizontal community building\, the generation of new work\, and the amplification of local poets. The series is made possible by generous support from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council\, in addition to our collaboration with Takoma Park’s People’s Book. We hope that you can join! \nThis is an in-store event. \nJuly’s Contributor Bios: \n\nVictoria Newton Ford is a poet from Memphis\, Tennessee. She is a MacDowell and Lambda Literary Fellow\, and her work has been supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities\, Tin House Summer Writers Workshop\, the Vermont Studio Center\, and The Hurston/Wright Writers Workshop. She earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on her first manuscript about Black mothers and their daughters\, captivity\, and haunting.\nKyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections\, Honest Engine (2015)\, Logorrhea Dementia (2010)\, Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003)–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work\, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University\, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works as a Managing Editor for Janelle Monae's  creative company\, Wondaland. Originally from Newark\, New Jersey\, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict’s Prep\, The University of Virginia and Indiana University.\nJonny Teklit is a recipient of the 2019 Aliki Perroti and Seth Young Most Promising Young Poet Award. His work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, Catapult\, and elsewhere.
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Elizabeth Bryant and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. The intention is to bring something new to this area with offerings that provide a space for horizontal community building\, the generation of new work\, and the amplification of local poets. The series is made possible by generous support from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council\, in addition to our collaboration with Takoma Park’s People’s Book. The space is open from 5:00 – 7:00 pm\, readings begin at 5:30 pm. We hope that you can join!\n\n\n Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union\, awarded the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and Haint\, awarded the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. Her work has appeared in print\, online\, in journals and anthologies including Academy of American Poets\, Harvard Review\,  PANK\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and Kenyon Review. She’s the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Curator and Poetry Programs manager for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. Follow her on Twitter at @cross_davis\, Instagram at @haint_poet\, and online at http://www.poetsandparents.com.\n \nMalik Thompson is a Black queer man from Washington\, DC. His work is featured in MQR Mixtape\, Voicemail Poems\, Poet Lore\, and other places. He has received support from Lambda Literary\, Obsidian Foundation\, Brooklyn Poets\, Cave Canem\, and other organizations. He can be found on Instagram via the handle @latesummerstar.\n\n \nBernardine (Dine) Watson is a nonfiction writer and poet who lives in Washington. She has written on social policy issues for many major foundations\, nonprofit organizations\, and for the Washington Post Health and Science section and She the People blog. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Dine is a member of the 2015 class of the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Poet in Progress Program and the 2017 and 2018 classes of the Hurston Wright Foundation’s Summer Writers’ Workshop for Poetry. Her memoir: Transplant won the 2023 Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize for nonfiction. \n\nThis is an in-store event.
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Elizabeth Bryant and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. The intention is to bring something new to this area with offerings that provide a space for horizontal community building\, the generation of new work\, and the amplification of local poets. The series is made possible by generous support from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council\, in addition to our collaboration with Takoma Park’s People’s Book. The space is open from 5:00 – 7:00 pm\, readings begin at 5:30 pm. We hope that you can join!\n\n\n\nCamonghne Felix\, poet and essayist\, is the author of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation (One World\, 2023)\, which was hailed by TIME Magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023\, and Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry\, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards\, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets\, Harvard Review\, LitHub\, The New Yorker\, PEN America\, Poetry Magazine\, Freeman’s and elsewhere. Her collection of essays\, Let the Poets Govern\, is forthcoming from One World\, an imprint of Penguin Random House.\n \nMaría Fernanda (she/hers) is a poet whose work explores the intimacy of sisterhood and\, “the breaking and making of family.” (OkayAfrica). A recipient of The Norma Elia Cantú Award in Creative Writing\, María Fernanda is also a recipient of literary appointments from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her poems\, translations\, and essays appear in The Wide Shore\, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext\, Cave Canem’s Dogbytes\, and more. For more information\, visit\, mariafernandapoet.com \n\n\n\n\nIG: @mariafernanda________\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwitter:@trochaicpoet\n\n\n \n\nJoel Dias-Porter (aka DJ Reneg8d) is a former DJ who was born & raised in Pittsburgh\, PA. A 5X  Individual Finalist in the National Poetry Slam and the 1998 & 1999 Haiku Slam Champion\, his poems have been published in; Time Magazine\, The Washington Post\, NY Times\, Best American Poetry 2014\, Mead\, POETRY\, Callaloo\, Ploughshares\, Asahi Shimbun\, Red Brick Review\, Under the Bashō\, Beltway Quarterly and the anthologies Gathering Ground\, Love Poetry Out Loud\, Breakbeat Poets\, Short Fuse\, Role Call\, Def Poetry Jam\, 360 Degrees of Black Poetry\, Slam (The Book)\, Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapallooza\, Poetry Nation\, Beyond the Frontier\, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song\, Catch a Fire\, and The Black Rooster Social Inn. A recipient of the 1995 Furious Flower “Emerging Poet Award\,” his performances include the Today Show\, SlamNation\, on BET\, and the film Slam. A Cave Canem fellow\, his latest book is “Ideas of Improvisation” on Thread Makes Blanket Press (2022). \n\n\n\n\nThis is an in-store event.
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SUMMARY:Takoma Park Street Festival
DESCRIPTION:The popular Takoma Park Street Festival returns for its 42nd year of music\, vendors\, food and fun in Takoma Park. This year’s festival takes place on Sunday\, October 1\, 2023 from 10:00 am-5:00 pm on Carroll Avenue in Takoma Park\, MD to Carroll Street\, NW in Takoma\, DC. Festival goers will enjoy the day exploring over 150 vendors booths\, live music from 18 local bands\, food trucks and more. Takoma’s unique shops\, restaurants and cafes are all open and welcoming visitors. People’s Book will be open 9am-7pm\, with monthly poetry reading series The Green Way beginning at 5 pm in-store\, and we will have a booth in the festival as well!
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Elizabeth Bryant and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. The intention is to bring something new to this area with offerings that provide a space for horizontal community building\, the generation of new work\, and the amplification of local poets. The series is made possible by generous support from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council\, in addition to our collaboration with Takoma Park’s People’s Book. The space is open from 5:00 – 7:00 pm\, readings begin at 5:30 pm. We hope that you can join!\n\n\nDerrick Weston Brown holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. He is the founding Poet-In-Residence of Busboys and Poets. He is a graduate of the Cave Canem and VONA summer workshops and is a participating author in the PEN-Faulkner Foundation’s Writers-In-Schools-Program. His work has been published and featured in such print journals and online publications as\, Racebaitr\, Colorlines and Bayou Magazine. His debut collection of poetry\, Wisdom Teeth was released in 2011 through PM Press/Busboys and Poets Press. His second collection of poetry\, a chapbook entitled On All Fronts was released along with two other poetry chapbooks in a bound series from Upper Rubber Boot Press entitled Floodgates Vol.5 \, March of 2019 He resides in PG County. He was an adjunct professor of English at Prince George’s Community College in Largo MD and is currently full-time faculty of the Cinematic Arts & Media Production (CAMP) at The Duke Ellington School of the Arts. You can follow him on social media on Facebook\, Instagram @theoriginalDerrickWestonBrown or through DerrickWestonBrown.com \nAlexa Patrick is a vocalist and poet from Connecticut. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem\, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities\, and more. Alexa is currently the Programs Director for Shout Mouse Press. In spring 2023\, Alexa made her stage production debut as Un/Sung in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved\, directed by Kennedy Center honors awardee Bill T. Jones. You may find her work in publications including The Adroit Journal\, CRWN Magazine\, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. Her debut collection Remedies for Disappearing will be published by Haymarket Books in June. Visit alexapatrick.com for more. \nClint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism\, the Stowe Prize\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of two books of poetry\, the New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground and Counting Descent\, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic. \n\nThis is an in-store event.
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Elizabeth Bryant and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. The intention is to bring something new to this area with offerings that provide a space for horizontal community building\, the generation of new work\, and the amplification of local poets. The series is made possible by generous support from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council\, in addition to our collaboration with Takoma Park’s People’s Book. The space is open from 5:00 – 7:00 pm\, readings begin at 5:30 pm. We hope that you can join! \nLillian-Yvonne Bertram is an African American writer\, poet\, artist\, and educator who works at the intersection of computation\, AI\, race\, and gender. They are the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press)\, a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. They are the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan)\, Personal Science (Tupelo Press)\, a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press)\, and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their fifth book\, Negative Money\, is available now. They direct the MFA in creative writing program at the University of Maryland. Their new chapbook\, written with AI\, is called A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content and won the 2023 Diagram/New Michigan chapbook contest.\n\nJustin Phillip Reed is an American writer and amateur bass guitarist whose preoccupations include horror cinema\, ideological failure\, and uses of the grotesque. He is the author of two poetry collections\, The Malevolent Volume (2020) and Indecency (2018)\, both published by Coffee House Press. His hybrid collection\, With Bloom Upon Them And Also With Blood: A Horror Miscellany\, will be released in fall 2023. Born and raised in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina\, he participates in alternative rock music cultures\, ogles Toyota Tacomas\, and enjoys smelling like outside. His current favorite band is Oklahoma City’s Chat Pile.\n\nSimon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet. He is the author of Master (Sarabande Books) and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Simon’s poems and essays can be found in POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, Guernica\, Best New Poets\, and The Yale Review\, among others. Simon co-founded Spittoon Literary Magazine (spittoonlitmag.com) which translates and publishes the best contemporary Chinese writers. He lives in Washington\, DC with his wife\, Charlotte\, and their dog\, Momo.
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Elizabeth Bryant and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. The first reading is Sunday July 2nd 2023 from 5-7pm at People’s Book featuring three local poets. Our intention is to bring something new to this area with offerings that provide a space for horizontal community building\, the generation of new work\, and the amplification of local poets. The series is made possible by generous support from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council\, in addition to our collaboration with Takoma Park’s People’s Book. We hope that you can join! \nALEXIS DE VEAUX is one of a stellar list of American writers highlighted by LIT CITY\, a  public art initiative of banners bearing their names and images in downtown Buffalo\, New York\,  in recognition of the city’s renowned literary legacy. Co-Founder of The Center for Poetic Healing\, a project of Lyrical Democracies (with Kathy Engel)\, and of the Flamboyant Ladies Theatre  Company (with Gwendolen Hardwick)\, ALEXIS DE VEAUX is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose work in multiple genres is internationally known. Born and raised in  Harlem\, New York City\, Ms. De Veaux is published in five languages-English\, Portuguese\,  Dutch\, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian. Over the past five decades her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications\, most recently in Mouths of Rain\, An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (ed. Briona Simone Jones\, 2021). De Veaux is the author of the memoir Spirits In The Street (1973); an award-winning children’s book\, Na-ni (1973); the biography-in prose\, Don’t Explain\, A Song of Billie Holiday (1980); Blue Heat: A Portfolio of Poems and  Drawings (1985); the poems\, Spirit Talk (1997); and An Enchanted Hair Tale (1987)\, a recipient of the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award presented by the American Library Association and  the 1991 Lorraine Hansberry Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature. Her plays include Circles\, (1972); The Tapestry (1975); A Season to Unravel (1979); NO (1980); and Elbow Rooms (1986).\n\nDe Veaux also authored Warrior Poet\, A Biography of Audre Lorde (2004). The first biography of the pioneering lesbian poet\, Warrior Poet has won several prestigious awards including  the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award\, Nonfiction (2005)\, the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award  (2004)\, and the Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Biography (2004). In other media\, Ms.  De Veaux’s work appears on several recordings\, including the highly-acclaimed album\, Sisterfire  (Olivia Records\, 1985). As an artist and lecturer she has traveled extensively throughout the  United States\, the Caribbean\, Africa\, Japan and Europe; and is recognized for her on-going contributions to a number of community-based organizations.\n\nMs. De Veaux was a tenured member of the faculty of the University at Buffalo\, Buffalo\, NY\,  1992-2013; teaching\, most recently\, as Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in  the Department of Transnational Studies. Her novel\, Yabo\, was published by Redbone Press  (2014) and was awarded the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is on the  board of the Roadwork Center for Cultures in Disputed Territory and co-founder (with Amy  Horowitz) of The Enclave Habitat\, a network of socially conscious international artists and activists. Her latest work\, JesusDevil\, The Parables was published by AK Press in the spring of 2023.\n\nFurther information is available on her author website\, alexisdeveaux.com.\n \nSOKARI EKINE is a Nigerian British queer feminist artist and visual scholar who has worked and lived in Africa\, Europe\, the Caribbean and the US.\n\nAn artist of considerable longevity\, Sokari’s work focuses on decolonization\, African spiritual practices\, migration\, and queer and trans bodies in black diasporas.\n  \nThis is an in-store event.
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Vol. 7
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\n\n\nFargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist. Find more at fargotbakhi.com\n\n\n\n\nKenny Carroll is a writer from DC. He was the 2017 DC Youth Poet Laureate\, and in 2019 received the Thomas Lux Scholarship from Sarah Lawrence. His work has been featured in Split This Rock’s The Quarry\, EcoTheo Review\, Lamplack\, and Poetry London among others. He is a Watering Hole\, Brooklyn Poets\, and Obsidian fellow\, and was selected by Roger Reeves as a 2023 Cave Canem Starshine and Clay fellow. You can find him online @Kennyc113.\n\n\nSunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist including through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She is the daughter of immigrants from Kerala\, India\, and lives in Washington\, DC with her family. Sunu’s award-winning collection of poems\, My Dear Comrades\, was published by Regal House in 2023.Sunu completed her MFA in poetry at Queens College\, City University of New York\, in 2013.  Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward\, supporting work across teams including fighting the many attacks on racial equity\, diversity\, and inclusion. Sunu also serves on the board of the Transgender Law Center. Sunu is delighted to celebrate her collection of poetry\, My Dear Comrades\, with all of you and with the book’s fabulous cover artist\, Ragni Agarwal.\n  \n\nIf you want to purchase the book online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781646033195 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first come first serve seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Vol. 8
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\n\nJalynn Harris is a poet\, educator\, editor\, and press founder from Baltimore\, MD. She founded SoftSavagePress for the sole purpose of promoting visual and literary works by Black people. Her work has been featured in The Best American Poetry 2022\, Poets.org\, The Hopkins Review\, Feminist Studies\, and elsewhere.\nCynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad\, 2023) which received 5 stars from Roxane Gay\, was named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine\, and was selected as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2023. She is editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism\, Black Comics\, and Superhero Poetry; winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry; and author of Blue Hallelujahs. Manick has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, Hedgebrook\, MacDowell Colony\, and Château de la Napoule among other foundations. For 10 years she curated Soul Sister Revue\, a quarterly reading series that promoted poetry as storytelling and featured emerging poets\, poet laureates\, and Pulitzer prize winners. Her poem “Things I Carry Into the World” was made into a film by Motionpoems\, an organization dedicated to video poetry\, and has debuted on Tidal for National Poetry Month. A storyteller and performer at literary festivals\, libraries\, universities\, and museums\, Manick’s work has also featured in VOICES\, an audio play by Aja Monet and Eve Ensler’s V-Day\, the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series\, Brooklyn Rail\, the Rumpus and other outlets. She currently serves on the editorial board of Alice James Books. She lives in New York\, but travels widely for poetry.\nRasheed Copeland is the author of The Book of Silence: Manhood As a Pseudoscience (Sergeant Press\, 2015). A multiple recipient of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Award\, he is a native of Washington\, D.C.\n  \nIf you want to purchase the book online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/101932/9780063244306 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first come first serve seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Vol. 9
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\n  \nSebastian Bronson Boddie (they/them/theirs) is a nonbinary poet from New Jersey whose work explores memory\, family\, nature\, and the practice of witness. With their work\, they attempt to learn more about themselves and the world around them. They enjoy teaching\, being in community\, and spending time with their cat. They are a recent MFA graduate of the University of Maryland.\n\n \nSamuel “Sami” Miranda grew up in the South Bronx and resides in Washington\, DC. He is a visual artist\, poet\, and teacher. He is the author of Protection from Erasure\, published by Jaded Ibis Press\, Departure\, a chapbook published by Central Square Press\, and We Is\, published by Zozobra Publishing. He is currently working on collaborative projects with musicians\, visual artists and filmmakers. Samuel’s artwork has been exhibited internationally in Puerto Rico and Madrid\, as well as New York and Washington\, DC. Most recently\, Samuel’s artwork has been included in the Smithsonian’s new Molina Family Latino Gallery inaugural exhibition ¡Presente! His artwork has been included in university and private collections. Films he co-produced and co-directed\, “Hiding Place\,” “Desert Poems\,” and “Spanish Joe Remembers\,” have been included in film festivals in DC\, Berlin\, the Netherlands\, Madrid\, Houston\, Bethesda\, Seattle and Milwaukee.\n\n\nGiovannai Rosa is a writer\, editor\, and artist from Miami. A 2022 Periplus Fellow\, 2023 Tin House Scholar and Reading Fellow\, they’re at work on their hybrid poetry collection We Still Eat Sugar.\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Vol. 10
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\n  \n\n\n\nISSAM ZINEH is author of Unceded Land (Trio House Press\, 2022)\, an Editors’ Selection and finalist for the Medal Provocateur\, Housatonic Book Award\, and Balcones Prize for Poetry. His most recent writing appears or is forthcoming in AGNI\, Gulf Coast\, Prairie Schooner\, The Yale Review\, and Columbia Journal\, and the anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Books). He lives on Paskestikweya land (Baltimore\, MD). www.issamzineh.com.\n\nSTEVEN LEYVA was born in New Orleans\, Louisiana and raised in Houston\, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace\, Scalawag\, Nashville Review\, jubilat\, The Hopkins Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish\, as well as author of The Understudy’s Handbook\, which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. His second book of poems\, The Opposite of Cruelty\, is forthcoming from Blair Publishing in Spring 2025 Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore\, where he is an associate professor at the Klein Family School of Communications Design. \nSYLVIA JONES lives in Baltimore\, MD. She works as a creative writing adjunct for Goucher College and George Washington University and as poetry editor at Black Lawrence Press. She earned her MFA from American University. She also serves as a reader for the journal Ploughshares. She recently served as a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. Her writing appears in DIAGRAM\, Smartish Pace\, the Santa Clara Review\, Shenandoah\, R & R Journal\, The Hopkins Review\, Poet Lore and other notable publications. Her first book\, Television Fathers\, is forthcoming from Meekling Press in October 2024.\n  \n\nIf you want to purchase any of these titles online and still support People’s Book\, follow the links below: \n\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781949487121 \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781941551226 \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781958888346 \n  \n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Vol. 11
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\n  \nTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing\, the Whiting Award for Fiction\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other awards. His reviews\, essays and cultural criticism have been featured in The Atlantic\, The Baffler\, BBC\, The Drift\, High Country News\, Lithub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New York Times Book Review\, Vulture\, The Washington Post and elsewhere. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford\, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. His debut novel\, A Particular Kind of Black Man\, was published by Simon & Schuster. (photo credit Beowulf Sheehan)\n\n \nTaylor Johnson is from Washington\, DC. He is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books\, 2020)\, winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2024 Whiting Award. His work appears in Poetry Magazine\, The Paris Review\, The Baffler\, Scalawag\, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities\, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor was the inaugural 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. He is the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park\, Maryland. With his wife\, Elizabeth Bryant\, Taylor curates the Green Way Reading Series at People’s Book in Takoma Park.\n  \nIf you’d like to purchase the above titles online and still support People’s Book\, follow the links below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781501171833 \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781948579131 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/green-way-11/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Vol. 12
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\n  \nKiki Petrosino is the author of White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and three other poetry books\, all from Sarabande. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her memoir\, Bright\, was released from Sarabande in 2022. She is a Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia where she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate Creative Writing programs. Petrosino is the recipient of a DeWitt Wallace/Readers Digest fellowship from MacDowell artist residency\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the UNT Rilke Prize\, & the Spalding Prize\, among other honors. \nVivek Narayanan’s most recent books of poems are After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India\, 2022) and The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions\, 2024).  His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review\, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem and The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and at the New York Public Library and teaches in the MFA Poetry program at George Mason University. \nTahir Hamut Izgil  is a modernist Uyghur poet\, filmmaker\, and activist. He grew up in Kashgar\, an ancient city in the southwest of the Uyghur homeland. After attending college in Beijing\, he returned to the Uyghur region and emerged as a prominent film director. Izgil’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books\, Asymptote\, Words Without Borders\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, The Atlantic and the New York Times\, and has also been translated into Chinese\, Japanese\, Turkish and French. In 2017\, as the Chinese government began the mass internment of the Uyghur people\, Izgil fled with his family to the United States. His new book\, “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide” published in September\, 2023. This book has translated over dozen languages and won 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. In 2024\, Izgil was awarded the Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. He lives near Washington\, DC. \nIf you’d like to purchase the above titles online and still support People’s Book\, follow the links below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/p/books/white-blood-a-lyric-of-virginia-kiki-petrosino/8295529?ean=9781946448545 \nhttps://bookshop.org/p/books/after-vivek-narayanan/17222915?ean=9781681376462 \nhttps://bookshop.org/p/books/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-a-uyghur-poet-s-memoir-of-china-s-genocide-tahir-hamut-izgil/19015561?ean=9780593491799 \n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/green-way-12/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Vol. 13
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\n  \n\nSacha Marvin is a writer\, performer and award winning urban and architectural designer from Southeastern Virginia. A recipient of fellowships from Callaloo and Cave Canem\, Marvin’s written work can be found in The Adroit Journal\, Split this Rock’s The Quarry\, EcoTheo Review and elsewhere. Marvin has been a finalist or semi-finalist for prizes for poetry and screenwriting at The Georgia Review\, Indiana Review\, Frontier Poetry\, Black Lawrence Press\, Glass Poetry\, Two Sylvia’s Press\, the Vail Film Festival and the Richmond International Film festival. Sacha Marvin currently resides in Washington\, DC.\n\n\nAma Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions\, 2022)\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry\, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press\, 2020)\, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Bogliasco\, Cave Canem\, Robert Rauschenberg\, and Saltonstall foundations as well as from Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, Hedgebrook\, Yaddo\, Hawthornden Literary Retreat\, Willapa Bay AiR\, MacDowell\, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. Among other honors\, Codjoe has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts\, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2023\, Codjoe was appointed as the second Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. She is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award and a recipient of a 2024 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\n\n\nTyree Daye was raised in Youngsville\, North Carolina. He is the author of the poetry collections a little bump in the earth (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024)\, Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020)\, and River Hymns (American Poetry Review\, 2017)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. A Cave Canem fellow and a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow\, Daye is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award\, a Kate Tufts Award finalist\, and a 2021 Paterson Prize finalist. He was the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and received an Amy Clampitt Residency. Daye is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. In January 2023\, Daye served as Guest Editor of the Poem-a-Day series.\n\n\nIf you’d like to purchase the above titles online and still support People’s Book\, follow the links below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781571315427 \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781556596889 \n  \n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading\, Vol. 14
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry.\nThe Green Way Reading series is co-sponsored by the City of Takoma Park’s Takoma Park Arts cultural events series. \n  \nAre you interested in reading as a part of the Green Way Reading Series?\nIn November\, we’re opening up the space for our community to share some of their work.\nWe have 10 open mic spots available for November\, in addition to our featured poets.\nWould you like to share a poem? Email us at trbjohnson1@gmail.com to get on the list!\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/green-way-vol-14/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Series presents: Craft Talks
DESCRIPTION:Green Way’s new Craft Talk series will invite writers to talk about the books they love and the craft elements that make them work. These will be 20min lectures followed by audience Q&A. \nSimon Shieh reads The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei translated and introduced by David Hinton. \nTaylor Johnson reads a little bump in the earth by Tyree Daye.\n\nSimon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet and essayist. He has lived in upstate New York and Beijing\, China\, where he co-founded Spittoon Literary Magazine\, which translates the best new Chinese writing into English. From 2008-2014 he competed as an amateur and professional Muay Thai fighter in China\, Brazil\, Argentina\, Thailand\, and the U.S. Simon’s work has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives in the U.S. with his wife\, Charlotte\, and their dog\, Momo. Master is his first collection of poems.\n\nTaylor Johnson is proud of being from Washington\, DC. They’ve received fellowships and scholarships from CALLALOO\, Cave Canem\, Lambda Literary\, Tin House\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Yaddo\, the Conversation Literary Festival\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference\, among others. In 2017\, Taylor received the Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Their poems appear in The Baffler\, Indiana Review\, Scalawag\, and the Paris Review\, among other journals and literary magazines. Their first book\, Inheritance\, will be published in Fall 2020 with Alice James Books. Taylor lives in southern Louisiana where they listen.\n\nIf you’d like to purchase these titles online and still support People’s Book\, follow the links below:\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9780811216180\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781556596889\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/green-way-vol-15/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Series: Vol. 16
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. \nNida Sophasarun is from Atlanta\, Georgia\, and holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She has lived and worked in Bulgaria\, China\, Hong Kong\, Japan\, Myanmar\, and Taiwan. Her poems appear in New England Review\, Prairie Schooner\, 32 Poems\, wildness\, and elsewhere. \nThu Anh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American poet whose poetry has been featured in the Southern Humanities Review\, Cider Press Review\, NPR’s “Social Distance” poem for the community\, The Crab Orchard Review\, and The Salt River Review. The author’s poems were also named as a semi-finalist for the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize for the Southern Humanities Review. She was honored with a writing residency with The Inner Loop Poetry Series in Washington\, D.C. She also writes about literacy through the lenses of building equity\, justice\, and community. Her essays on the importance of reading diverse literature have been featured in Literacy Today. Her poetry and painting can be found at thuanhnguyen.com. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9780807183908 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/green-way-vol-16/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:The Green Way Reading Series: Vol. 17
DESCRIPTION:The Green Way Reading Series is a monthly literary event based in Takoma Park\, MD curated by Simon Shieh and Takoma Park’s Poet Laureate Taylor Johnson. The series centers emerging and established poets and artists in interdisciplinary\, intergenerational and cross-regional dialogues. We want these programs to encourage growing participation and local engagement in the evolving landscape of contemporary poetry. \n\nChet’la Sebree is the author Field Study\, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, and Mistress. Her third poetry collection Blue Opening and debut essay collection turn (w)here: essays on (be)longing are forthcoming in 2025 and 2026\, respectively. She’s an assistant professor at The George Washington University and faculty in Randolph College’s Low-Residency MFA program.\n\n \n\nAirea D. Matthews’ first collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra\, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews is also the author of Bread and Circus\, a memoir-in-verse\, which was awarded The 2024 LA Times Book Prize in Poetry\, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was named a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in Poetry. Matthews has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship\, a Pew Fellowship\, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. From 2022-2023\, she served as Philadelphia’s 6th Poet Laureate. She is an associate professor and co-chairs the creative writing department at Bryn Mawr College\, where she was presented the Lindback Distinguished Teaching award and the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Change Master Award.\n\n\nSanam Sheriff is a queer poet\, artist\, and educator from Bangalore\, India. They have received support from the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship\, Kundiman\, The Fine Arts Work Center\, Brew & Forge\, The Watering Hole\, and The Seventh Wave\, among others. Sanam’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Indiana Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Rumpus\, The Academy of American Poets\, The Adroit Journal\, Washington Square Review\, The Offing\, Outlook India\, and elsewhere. Sanam holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. They currently serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College where they organize the Reading Series. Sanam is working\, with much love\, on their debut poetry collection.\n\n\nIf you’d like to purchase any of the featured titles online and still support People’s Book\, follow the links below:\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9780374539023\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781668011461\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/green-way-vol-17/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Green Way Reading Series Presents: Craft Talks
DESCRIPTION:Green Way’s new Craft Talk series invites writers to talk about the books they love and the craft elements that make them work. These brief lectures are followed by audience Q&A. After the craft talk\, we’re opening up space for our community to share original work. We have 10 open mic spots available for June 1st. Want to share a poem? Email trbjohnson1@gmail.com to get on the list! \n  \nCamonghne Felix\, poet and essayist\, is the author of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation (One World\, 2023)\, which was hailed by TIME Magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023 and top memoirs of 2023. Her poetry debut Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books\, 2019)\, was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry\, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards\, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets\, Harvard Review\, LitHub\, The New Yorker\, PEN America\, Poetry Magazine\, Freeman’s Journal and elsewhere. Her next full length work\, Let the Poets Govern\, is forthcoming from One World\, an imprint of Penguin Random House. \n  \nIf you’d like to purchase any of Camonghne’s titles online and still support People’s Book\, follow the links below: \nBuild Yourself a Boat: https://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781608466115 \nDyscalculia: https://bookshop.org/a/88548/9780593242179 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/green-way-vol-18/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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