Literature
The Sapphic Book Club MKE 2/3
Lion's Tooth 2421 S Kinnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWelcome to The Sapphic Book Club!! Each month we will read a new book with Sapphic characters or storylines and then get together for a discussion! At this meeting, we will be discussing the book Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst -------- Book Summary: Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter, but, for now, her days […]
Book Launch Party: The Absinthe Underground
A Room of One's Own 315 W. Gorham St., Madison, WI, United StatesA Room of One's Own is thrilled to kick off our first in-store event of the year with a book launch party for The Absinthe Underground! Join us for a discussion on and celebration of the book with the local author herself, Jamie Pacton, and Madison's Queer Joy book club leader, Jamie Butler. This is […]
Winter Festival of Poetry – Week 5
Arts + Literature Labratory 111 S. Livingston St. #100, Madison, WI, United StatesJoin us for the fifth week of the 2024 Winter Festival of Poetry on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 2 PM. The Winter Festival of Poetry, a program of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, is Wisconsin's longest continuously running poetry program of its size. Hosted by poet James P. Roberts, this 8-week series features six […]
Memoirs of Disability: An Evening with CHERYL SCHILTZ and MEETRA NAHAVANDI
A Room of One's Own 315 W. Gorham St., Madison, WI, United StatesA Room of One's Own is thrilled to welcome Cheryl Schiltz and Meetra Nahavandi for a reading and conversation on each other their memoirs and journeys with distinct disabilities: Silencing the Noise of Disability: A Journey of Transformation and Dis-ability to This-ability: Rising Above Life While Living with Spina Bifida. This is an in person event at A Room of One's Own […]
Author Mylo Choy: Middle Distance
Madison Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St., Madison, WI, United StatesPresented in partnership with A Room of One's Own Bookstore. This heartfelt graphic memoir takes us through the highs, lows, twists, and turns of the author’s relationship with running, down the long road toward self-acceptance. As MIDDLE DISTANCE grapples with themes of resilience, identity, and self-care, Mylo leads us along the middle way between motion […]