Literary Site Type: Reading Venue

Pandemonium Books and Games

Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue

Pandemonium Books and Games has resided in Boston for over 30 years. Their community is for anyone interested in enriching their life through play, literature, and imaginative storytelling. They have the largest event space of its kind in the Boston area, where they strive to create a comfortable and welcoming place for folks of all ages and identities. The shop carries science fiction, fantasy, and horror books, used books, board games, role-playing games, CCGs, and war games of all types.

Grinders Caffè

Reading Venue

Want to strut your stuff on stage? Grinders Caffè features local Wilmington talent every week. Are you an aspiring musician or want to perform spoken word? Come up on stage every Thursday from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. These nights are safe and inclusive spaces for creativity!

Hunter College’s Creative Writing Program

Reading Venue

Hunter College presents the Distinguished Writers Series, one of the signal components of the Hunter Creative Writing Program. It has a rich history and continuing tradition of presenting intimate readings and class visits to their MFA seminars from the leading voices in contemporary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

A Cappella Books

Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue

Since 1989, A Cappella Books has been serving the Atlanta community with a unique selection of new, used, and antiquarian titles. Together with a wide range of partners across Atlanta, the bookstore invites authors all year long for book signings and literary events. A Cappella also buys, sells, and trades used books.

A Cappella Books

Center for Brooklyn History

Reading Venue

The newly-formed Center for Brooklyn History (CBH) is an exciting collaboration between Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Public Library, combining materials collected over the past 157 years with BPL’s Brooklyn Collection and becoming the most expansive catalogue of Brooklyn history in the world.

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Reading Venue

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Detroit’s cultural center. Throughout the year MOCAD hosts music, performing arts, educational programs, and literary events.

Town Hall Seattle

Reading Venue

Town Hall Seattle is an events venue that holds numerous community, cultural, arts and entertainment, science, and civics events throughout the year. The Short Stories Live series presents author readings, storytelling, poetry readings, presentations, and more.

Verdi Club

Reading Venue

Established in 1916 as a private club in San Francisco’s Mission District, the historic Verdi Club is now available to the general public for private functions such as weddings, conferences, concerts, and many other special events. 

Poetry Foundation

Reading Venue

The first space in Chicago dedicated solely to the art of poetry, the Poetry Foundation building houses a thirty thousand volume poetry library (which includes audio and video recordings in private listening booths and a Special Collections section), an exhibition gallery, a performance space for the foundation’s events, and the offices of the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Programming includes author events, readings, discussions, poetry camps, and more.

Photos by Melladramatic, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.

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