Below you will find a catalogue of upcoming area writing and reading events for the week of February 13, 2012. If you would like events from your venue or group included in future weekly forecasts, please contact the author.
All Week
- 12:30pm and 11:00pm - Jim Fleming reads Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald on the Ideas Network of Milwaukee Public Radio through February 17.
Monday, February 13
- 2:00pm - The Big Read event: Mary McDonagh Murphy (Scout, Atticus & Boo) with Milwaukee Rep actor Deborah Staples @ Boswell Book Company.
- 6:00pm - Morton’s List Monday @ People’s Books.
- 7:30pm - Poet's Monday @ Linneman's.
Tuesday, February 14
- 7:30pm - Spoken Word Open Mic @ Miramar Theatre ($2 cover charge).
Wednesday, February 15
- 5:30pm - Black History Month Read-In @ Washington Park Library.
- 6:30pm - Bay View Book Club reads Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell @ Bay View Library.
- 7:00pm - Discussion of Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson @ the Kenosha Civil War Museum ($10/$5). Advance registration required.
- 7:00pm - Dan Vyleta (The Quiet Twin) @ Boswell Book Company.
- 7:00pm - “Art Writers and Their Craft: The Current Climate for Art Writing” by speakers Tom Strini, Peggy Sue Dunigan, and Katherine (Kat) Murrell @ Frederick Layton Gallery.
- 9:00pm - Lone Wolf Open Mic Night @ Riverwest Public House.
Thursday, February 16
- 6:30pm - Urban Echo Poets @ People’s Books.
- 7:00pm - Lauren Fox (Friends Like Us) @ Boswell Book Company.
- 7:00pm - Writer’s Life Lecture Series with Dwight Allen and Michelle Wildgen @ Madison College Downtown Education Center (Room 240).
Friday, February 17
- 10:00am - Black History Month Read-In @ Milwaukee Central Library.
- 6:30pm - Book Release for The Circus and the Cyclone by Sue Lawton @ Cedarburg Cultural Center.
- 7:00pm - Andre Dubus III (Townie) @ Boswell Book Company.
- 7:00pm - The Music of Jane Austen @ Ephraim Moravian Church ($30/$10). Advance reservations required.
- 8:00pm - Spoken Word Open Stage @ The Coffee House ($3.50).
Saturday, February 18
- 8:00pm - Mid-Winter Talent Content: Finals @ The Coffee House ($3.50).
- 8:00pm - Poetry and Music (with Cathryn Cofell and Obvious Dog) @ Cafe Carpe (Fort Atkinson). Call for tickets.
Sunday, February 19
- 2:00pm - Winter Festival of Poetry readings @ Avol's Bookstore (Madison).
- 3:00pm - The Milwaukee Non-Fiction Book Club reads Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford @ Boswell Book Company.
Upcoming
- Sunday, March 4, 10am-1pm - Angled Totality: Using En Plein Air Experiences to Build Inner Landscapes (with Marsha McDonald) workshop @ Woodland Pattern ($25/$20). Register 1-2 weeks in advance.
- Saturday, March 10, 12-3pm - Reanimating Modernism: Revisiting and Making New the Work of the Moderns (with Michael Heller) workshop @ Woodland Pattern ($25/$20). Register 1-2 weeks in advance.
- Thursday, March 15 - Florence Lindemann Humor Contest closes.
- Thursday, March 15 - Al P. Nelson Feature Article Contest closes.
- Weekend of May 4-5 - Wisconsin Writers Association Spring Conference. Register by April 25, 2012.
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