Readings 2020

Ongoing

Meet the authors of new books and hear poets and other literary lights read their work.

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  • Sunday, May 31, 5 PM

    CANCELED: Reading: Queer Voices

    Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and Vernon Keeve III read their writing.

    BAMPFA

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Programmed by Michal “MJ” Jones

  • Evolve Benton
    Saturday, April 25, 5 PM

    CANCELED: Reading: Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Voices

    A poetry reading by Troy Rockett, Evolve Benton, and Diego Basdeo Fitzgerald.

    BAMPFA

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Programmed by Michal “MJ” Jones

  • Sunday, March 15, 5 PM

    CANCELED: Reading: Joy and Pain: Poetics of Black Delight

    Poets Raina J. León and Mimi Tempestt read their work.

    BAMPFA

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been canceled through March 29. Learn more

    Programmed by Michal “MJ” Jones

  • Thursday, February 27, 5 PM

    Reading: Susan Straight

    Award-winning author Susan Straight reads from her family memoir In the Country of Women, which Joyce Carol Oates called “a beautiful book . . . the most populated, celebratory, filled-with-life memoir of our time.”

    BAMPFA
  • Thursday, January 30, 5 PM

    Reading: Anne Walsh

    Artist Anne Walsh introduces her new book Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh, a visual and textual response to Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet.

    BAMPFA