Literary Buffalo Events Listing, Presented by Just Buffalo

4/24

Literary magazine. 6pm. Unveiling of the 2008 campus literary magazine, The Quadrangle. The Grupp Fireside Lounge @ Canisius College’s Student Center (2001 Main St., Buffalo, 888-2662)

Thom Donovan & Rob Halpern. 7pm. Donovan and Halpern read as part of “George Oppen: A Centenary Conversation,” the UB Poetics Program celebration for Oppen’s 100th birthday. Rust Belt Books (202 Allen St., Buffalo, 885-9535)

Author Kiran Desai. 8pm. Just Buffalo’s Babel Series: India’s Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. $25. Asbury Hall at Babeville (341 Delaware Ave., 832-5400)

Rachel Blau DePlessis & John Wilkinson. 8pm. Blau DePlessis gives her keynote and Wilkinson reads as part of “George Oppen: A Centenary Conversation” the UB Poetics Program celebration for Oppen’s 100th birthday. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (453 Porter Ave., Buffalo)

4/25

W.B. Yeats events. 7:30pm. Gusto at the Gallery presents a screening of Players and the Painted Stage: W.B.Yeats and the Theatre, followed by a performance of Broken Dreams, a celebration of the life and works of W.B. Yeats, by Vincent O’Neill & Josephine Hogan with music by Mary Ramsey. Albright-Knox (1285 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, 882-8700)

Rachel Blau DePlessis & Susan Thackrey. 8pm. Blau DePlessis and Thackrey read as part of “George Oppen: A Centenary Conversation” the UB Poetics Program celebration for Oppen’s 100th birthday. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (453 Porter Ave., Buffalo)

4/26

Author Rick Blake. 1pm. Reading & book signing by Blake, author of The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up, with special guest Linda Herbert. Firemen’s Memorial Exhibit Center of WNY (4141 Seneca St., West Seneca)

Author Tim W. Brown. 2pm. Reading & book-signing with Brown, from his new novel Walking Man (Bronx River Press), and recent work by Matthew Baker Thompson. Rust Belt Books (202 Allen St., Buffalo, 885-9535)4/27

Urban Epiphany. 3pm. Community gathering of Buffalo poets for a marathon-style reading with up to 100 participants and open slots each hour. Unitarian Universalist Church (695 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, 885-2136)

4/28

Author Candice Millard. 4pm. Reading and booksigning by Millard, author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. Followed by a free lecture and reception at Buffalo Seminary at 5:30pm. Talking Leaves Books (951 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, 884-9524)

4/29

Book Group. 7:30pm. Tuesday Night Book Group. Borders Books (2015 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga, 685-2844)

4/30

Picturing Poetry: Connect. 6:20pm. Just Buffalo and CEPA present the premier screening of the documentary by Jon Hand filmed at PS19; in conjunction with Parent/Family Literacy and Math Night. Native American Magnet School (97 W Delavan, Buffalo)

Poet Sally Fiedler. 7pm. Fiedler will read from her book of poems A Trick of Seeing. Talking Leaves Books (951 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, 884-9524)

Spoken Word Poetry. 7:30pm. Visiting Artist Series presents “An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry” featuring poets Ntare Ali Gault, Erika Haygood, and Verneice Turner with musical accompaniment by Deshawn Jackson on drums and Odell Northington on bass. Hilbert College (5200 S. Park Ave., Hamburg, 649-7900)

RECURRING EVENTS

EM Tea Coffee Cup Open Mic Poetry Series. Meets every Tuesday, 7-9:30pm . EM Tea Coffee Cup Café, (80 Oakgrove Ave. at Hughes St., 884-1444)Beat Night. An open forum for poets and writers that meets every Wednesday at Madame Mocha’s (1190 Lovejoy St., 894-8544)

Elmwood Writers Group. Meets every Wednesday at 7pm. For more info, visit www.elmwoodwritersgroup.org. Starbucks (933 Elmwood Ave.)

Just Buffalo Writers Critique Group. First and third Wednesday each month, 7pm (members only). Just Buffalo Literary Center (Market Arcade, 617 Main St., Suite 202A, 832-5400) www.justbuffalo.org

new/reN.E.W. Reading Series. Third Thursday of every month at 7pm. One “seasoned voice” formerly involved with the late Niagara-Erie Writers and one “new” voice. Impact Artists’ Gallery, (2495 Main St. (Tri-Main Building), Suite 545, Buffalo)

Northside Writers Group. 7pm. Meets the first and third Thursday of each month. Ascension Lutheran Church (4640 Main Street, Amherst, 626-4204)

Philosophy School Cafe. 7pm. Every Friday in the bookstore. School of the Arts (402 Center St., Lewiston, 471-5379)

The Poetik High. 7-9pm. Poetry open mic, every other Friday. Gallery 51 (567-569 Elmwood Ave., 332-6821) www.gallery51byek.com

Spoken Word Sundays. 8pm. Monthly event on the second Sunday of each month. Next one April 13 with featured readers Mike Kelleher and Herb Kauderer. Sign-up at 7:45pm. Allen Street Hardware (245 Allen St., 882-8843)

WNY Romance Writers Group. Third Wednesday of every month. St. Joseph Hospital Community Room (2605 Harlem Rd., Cheektowaga, 891-2400)