Lit Top 5: January 2020

E. Patrick Johnson

1
E. Patrick Johnson with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
(Seminary Co-op Bookstore)
E. Patrick Johnson discusses his latest book “Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women” with black feminist scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
January 12

2
An Evening with Edwidge Danticat
(Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University)
Award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat reads and discusses her writing.
January 13

3
Kristiana Rae Colón and Patrick Durgin
(Poetry Foundation Open Door Series)
Kristiana Rae Colón and Patrick Durgin each read with one of their students in the Open Door Series.
January 21

4
Emily Jungmin Yoon
(Poets in the Field, Field Museum)
Poet Emily Jungmin Yoon reads as part of a pop-up poetry reading series.
January 22

5
Billy Lombardo
(Volumes Bookcafe)
Billy Lombardo reads from his novel “Morning Will Come” at Volumes’ Wicker Park location.
January 25

Tara Betts

Newcity Lit Editor Tara Betts is the author of “Break the Habit” and “Arc & Hue.” Her interviews and features have appeared in publications such as Hello Giggles, Mosaic Magazine, NYLON, The Source, Sixty Inches from Center, and Poetry magazine. She also hosts author chats at the Seminary Co-Op bookstores in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood.