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Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts (THELMA) is a premier venue providing the community with unprecedented access to arts and entertainment and a unique destination for weddings and corporate gatherings. Located in the Arts and Entertainment District in downtown Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, THELMA hosts the Foot of the Lake Reading Series, as well as other literary, music, and art events.
Located in the Village of La Jolla, Warwick’s is the country’s oldest continuously family-owned and operated bookstore. In addition to a highly curated selection of books, Warwick’s regularly hosts author events and signings. Beyond books, Warwick’s is also well known for its extensive, beautiful and unusual selection of gifts, jewelry, stationery, fine pens, leather, office and art supplies.
The Central Library in downtown Los Angeles has been producing literary events for over twenty years, including the popular ALOUD reading series which features writers, artists, and thinkers of all types and backgrounds.
Open six days a week, Sylva’s Jackson County Public Library serves the area’s full-time and seasonal residents with:
San Diego Writers, Ink is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. They offer classes, groups, workshops, readings and other literary events at The Ink Spot and other locations throughout San Diego County. Some of their monthly literary events including Friday Night Liberty Open House, San Diego Memoir Association Meet-Up, Dime Stories: Open Mic Prose Nights, Sunday Author Series, and more.
Founded in the early 1970s, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began as a living room salon in the East Village apartment of writer and poet Miguel Algarin. Today, the cafe is a nonprofit organization that provides a forum for innovative poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy, and theatre from underrepresented artists. Programming includes poetry and prose readings, theatrical and musical performances, and visual art exhibits. The cafe is well-known for a popular weekly Poetry Slam judged by randomly selected audience members.
University of Houston’s MFA Creative Writing program hosts poetry nights, several reading series, and various literary readings by faculty, students, and visiting writers, including the Poetry & Prose, a reading series featuring UH faculty, students, alumni, and other well-known writers, that happens right on campus. Through cultural partnerships, they also sponsor various literary events throughout the city of Houston, including the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, Brazos Bookstore Presents, and more.
The Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program is highly regarded for its rigorous approach to literary instruction and for its faculty of acclaimed writers and editors who are devoted and dedicated teachers. The faculty, the students, and the curriculum represent and foster a full range of artistic and literary diversity. The department also presents several stimulating events, readings, and conversations throughout the year, including the Creative Writing Lecture Series, Nonfiction Dialogues, Poetry Reading Series, and Literary Translation at Columbia.
Since first opening their doors in 1873, the Chicago Public Library has served all Chicagoans with free and open places to gather, learn, connect, read and be transformed. It welcomes and supports all people in their enjoyment of reading and lifelong learning. Working together, they strive to provide equal access to information, ideas and knowledge through books, programs and other resources. They believe in the freedom to read, to learn, to discover. Events include author readings and talks.
The Countee Cullen Branch gives Harlem residents of all ages access to library services delivered in a friendly and effective manner. It is home to the James Weldon Johnson Reference Collection for children, books on the African-American experience, a reference collection including college catalogs and financial aid information, and the African-American/Black Culture reference collection.
