All events are listed in E.T. 

Thursday, October 20

8 p.m.— The Poetry Foundation presents: Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features. Tune in to hear poets from the Forms & Features workshop read their new work developed throughout the course of these workshops. Registration is free, and this event will premiere online.

Friday, October 21

3 p.m.— Join the Mechanics’ Institute for their autumnal installment of Writers' Lunch: The Horror: Writing Suspense, Fear, and Spookiness. Librarian Taryn Edwards will moderate the discussion with writers Patricia Dusenbury, Vinnie Hansen, and Catriona McPherson. The Writers’ Lunch series takes place on the third Friday of each month. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Monday, October 24

2:30 p.m.— LEVEL is collaborating with Book Club Bunch to host the event: Poetry Reading: Consumption. Come to hear actors and literary scholars read aloud poems centered around the theme of consumption. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Tuesday, October 25

12 p.m.— The Freud Museum of London presents The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind. The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind (2022), is the latest book by philosopher and historian, Noga Arikha. Award-winning author Lisa Appignanesi will join in conversation with Noga Arikha. The Ceiling Outside explores the connection between our bodies and minds, with much of the content coming from Arikha’s personal experiences with Alzheimer’s patients. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Wednesday, October 26

12 p.m.— The American Literary Translators Association will be hosting a Fall 2022 BIPOC Literary Translators Caucus Meeting. This literary caucus is a space for literary translators who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color. Attendees will meet to share knowledge and discuss current issues. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

2 p.m.— Check out TanSuo Cultural Travel’s event Halloween Special: Strange Tales from China to hear strange and spooky stories from Chinese cultural history. Stories feature supernatural events, ghost encounters, and demonic visitations. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

2:30 p.m.—  The Translation Exchange is hosting another International Book Club! Join to discuss Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station with Polly Barton and Morgan Giles. In Tokyo Ueno Station, the protagonist’s life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan’s Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Thursday, October 27

6 p.m.— The Hurston/Wright Foundation presents The 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards. The Legacy Award Ceremony celebrates the best of Black writers both across the nation and all around the globe. Author and actress Karyn Parsons will be hosting the 21^st Legacy Award ceremony. The Hurston/Wright Board of Directors will also present three lifetime achievement awards to writers Elizabeth Alexander, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Ron Kavanaugh. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

7 p.m.— Community Building Art Works will be hosting the writing workshop Letters, Constellations, Dreams, Correspondences with Poet Chen Chen. In this generative workshop, attendees will read, discuss, and practice epistolary forms—mainly in poetry with some shoutouts to nonfiction and fiction. Early pricing for admission into this virtual workshop is $25, and all proceeds go towards Community Building Art Works programs for veterans, healthcare workers, and military families. This event will take place online.

7 p.m.— DePaul Art Museum presents the event Ada Limón: Poetry Reading and Conversation. Join for a reading and discussion with Ada Limón, recently named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress, moderated by Ionit Behar and Billy Johnson Gonzalez. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions. This program is in conjunction with the exhibition A Natural Turn: María Berrío, Joiri Minaya, Rosana Paulino and Kelly Sinnapah Mary. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

7 p.m.— P&P Live! presents Andrea L Rogers - Man Made Monsters - with Editor Nick Thomas. Rogers’ YA novel is grounded in the author’s Cherokee heritage and draws on ancestral stories passed through her family. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

9 p.m.— City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, in conjunction with Alice James Books, presents J. Estanislao Lopez in conversation with Kaveh Akbar. Attendees will discuss We Borrowed Gentleness by author J. Estanislao Lopez. The poetry collection We Borrowed Gentleness explores pain, natural destruction and catastrophe, intimacy and realism, and men’s essential faults. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Friday, October 28

10:30 a.m.— Chicago State University's Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing presents the 24th Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writers' Conference! The theme is We are Each Other's Harvest, a line taken from Gwendolyn Brooks' poem 'Paul Robeson.’ This two-day event will take place over Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Tuesday, November 1

3 p.m.— Barnet Libraries presents: An evening with Icelandic authors Jónína, Quentin & Sólveig with Dr. Jacky Collins. Authors in attendance will be discussing both their books and Icelandic Noir. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Thursday, November 3

1 p.m.— MAKE Literary Productions presents: Lit & Luz: Virtual: Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. This virtual festival will host a diverse cohort of Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets and authors. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.

Tuesday, November 8

12 p.m.— Join Words Without Borders in conjunction with the Academy of American Poets as they host World In Verse: A Virtual Poetry Reading. Tune in to hear a multilingual poetry reading and celebration featuring Arabic, French, Malay, Spanish, and English works. Speakers include Samira Negrouche and translator Marilyn Hacker; Zahid M. Naser and translator Pauline Fan;  Jeannette Clariond and translator Samantha Schnee; and translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Registration is free, and this event will take place online.