Lit Top 5: November 2017

1
Bearden’s Odyssey
(Poetry Foundation)
Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda and the nineteenth U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey read from “Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden” and discuss the artist’s work.
November 27, 7pm

2
Gwendolyn Brooks: The Golden Shovel
(Gallery Guichard)
The Chicago Humanities Festival partners with poets from “The Golden Shovel Anthology” to celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks’ centennial, featuring Brenda Cárdenas, Reginald Gibbons, Janice Harrington and Peter Kahn.
November 3, 6pm

3
Isabel Allende and Luis Urrea
(Senn High School Auditorium)
Luis Urrea interviews Isabel Allende about her new novel “In the Midst of Winter.”
November 2, 7pm

4
Danez Smith and Eve Ewing
(Women and Children First Bookstore)
Danez Smith, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, reads from “Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems” and Eve L. Ewing reads from “Electric Arches.”
November 4, 7:30pm

5
Liesl Olson: Chicago Renaissance
 (American Writers Museum)
Liesl Olson traces Chicago’s literature and art during the first half of the twentieth century.
November 16, 5pm