New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden is an iconic living museum and, since its founding in 1891, has served as an oasis in this busy metropolis. They regularly host poetry readings and book signings in a spacious auditorium.
Literary Site Type: Reading Venue
The Blue Moose Cafe
The Blue Moose Café is a coffeehouse that hosts cultural events and entertainment. It features live music several times a week by local, regional, and national musicians of all genres. There are also literary readings, and monthly art exhibits and openings.
The BookMark
The BookMark offers and hosts a wide range of programs, events, and services, including author readings and signings, book club meetings, storytime, personalized shopping, and more.
Notsuoh
Notsuoh is an event space and venue in downtown Houston that hosts frequent live music, performances, art and studio events, readings, and other local community events.
Stories on Stage
Stories on Stage is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) theater and literary organization. It engages audiences with dynamic and entertaining performances of short works of literature. Through the shared experience of live theater, the organization strives to inspire empathy and break down boundaries between cultures and generations.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is an internationally recognized cultural destination that presents innovative contemporary art exhibitions and education programs and is committed to promoting cross-cultural dialogues for diverse audiences. Since its founding in 1971, the Museum has played a vital role in the Bronx by helping to make art accessible to the entire community and connecting with local schools, artists, teens, and families through its robust education initiatives and public programs.
Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store is a unique and special place to shop—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge landmark since 1932. It is known for its extraordinary selection of new, used, and remainders, a popular author event series, and a history of innovation—including local bike delivery and a book-making robot (capable of printing and binding any of millions of titles in minutes). On their website, customers can browse the shelves, staff recommendations, and the author events calendar.
Poison Girl Bar
Poison Pen brings in three locally and nationally recognizable writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to read at Poison Girl Bar on the last Thursday of each month. Readings begin at 8:30 PM.
The Green Mill
The Green Mill is sophisticated and informal with a warm glowing atmosphere steeped in the heady sounds of the early 1930s and 1940s. The bar is patterned after Clark Monroe’s Uptown House in Harlem. Today, the Green Mill, in keeping with owner Dave Jemilo’s philosophy for a proper mix of down-to-earth friendliness and class, maintains an authenticity of the Forties in service, price, and music, perfected upon with the steady Sunday night performance of the internationally acclaimed Uptown Poetry Slam, which Marc Smith began at the Mill in 1986.
University of Alabama’s Creative Writing Program
Nationally known poets and fiction writers have been coming to Tuscaloosa to read from their work since 1972. Each year, the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series brings eight to twelve writers to campus for residencies. Many of these writers stay for two-day residencies and give readings, lead master classes, give craft talks, and interact with students at meals, receptions, and conferences. The Director of the Program in Creative Writing asks for suggestions of writers to bring to campus at the beginning of the Spring semester, and the schedule for the year is announced early in the Fall.
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