Notable Online: 1/17–1/23

Notable Online: 1/17–1/23

Sunday 1/17: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Desiree C. Bailey, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Max S. Gordon, Sara Lippmann, Gloria Nixon-John, Samantha So Lamb, and Alex Torres join host Stacy Parker Le Melle and the First Person Plural Reading Series to honor the memory of Anthony Veasna So. Zoom, 6 p.m. EST, free.

Monday 1/18: Cate Marvin and Lawrence Joseph join the KGB Monday Night Poetry series. Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Tuesday 1/19: Janice P. Nimura and Emily Silverman discuss The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women—and Women to Medicine. Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom, 7:30 p.m. EST, free.

E. J. Koh talks with Alexander Chee about The Magical Language of Others. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PST, free.

Jon Wesick joins the Cobalt Poets reading series. Zoom, 7:30 p.m. PST, free.

Jack Estes presents Searching for Gurney. Annie Bloom’s Books via Zoom, 10 p.m. EST, free.

Matt Coyle talks with Gary Phillips about Blind Vigil. Vroman’s Bookstore via CrowdCast, 6 p.m. PST, free.

Jenny Offill presents Weather. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EST, $3.

Matthew Salesses talks with Brandon Taylor about Craft in the Real World. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Wednesday 1/20: Anne Harding Woodworth, Hayes Davis, and Hiram Larew join Café Muse for Poets vs. The Pandemic. Online, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Tyler Stovall presents White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EST, $3.

Emma Copley Eisenberg presents The Third Rainbow Girl with Sarah Marshall. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Terrance Hayes, Sharon Olds, and Jihyun Yung, and host Jiordan Castle join the Pigeon Pages reading series. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 8:30 p.m. EST, free.

George Saunders presents A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. Left Bank Books Online, 7 p.m. CST, signed book purchase required.

Emily Rapp Black presents Sanctuary with Sarah Sentilles. Skylight Books via CrowdCast, 6:30 p.m. PST, free.

Thursday 1/21: Terry Tempest Williams and Lauret Savoy discuss Erosion: Essays of Undoing. Loyalty Bookstores via CrowdCast, 8 p.m. EST, free.

Eric Freeze joins the Readings by Writers series. Zoom, 5 p.m. PST, free.

Kevin Barry presents That Old Country Music: Stories and talks with Peter Orner. Harvard Bookstore via CrowdCast, 7 p.m. EST, $3.

Michael Farris Smith discuss Nick with Patti Callahan Henry. A Cappella Books via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Judith R. Robinson, Kristofer Collins, Michael Wurster, and Stuart Sheppard honor the life of Dr. Gene Hirsch with poetry. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Bryan Washington presents Memorial. Zoom, 5 p.m. EST, free.

Friday 1/22: Candace Jane Opper presents Certain and Impossible Events with Sarah Minor and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Safia Jama presents mindfulness for poets. The Resort LIC via Zoom, 12 p.m. EST, $15.

Ladee Hubbard presents The Rib King with Gabriel Bump. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

Saturday 1/23: Susan Shapiro presents The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology with Kenan Trebincevic, Alison Singh Gee, Emillio Mesa, Kate Walter, and Sharisse Tracey. The Strand via Zoom, 5 p.m. EST, $5.

Mónica de la Torre and Joan Retallack join the Segue Series. Zoom, 5 p.m. EST, free.

Lisa Summe presents Say It Hurts from YesYes Books with Sara Watson, Jari Bradley, Michaela Corn, and Diannely Antigua. White Whale Bookstore via Zoom, 7 p.m. EST, free.

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Ian MacAllen’s fiction has appeared in 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere and nonfiction has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, The Negatives, Electric Literature, Fiction Advocate, and elsewhere. He is the Deputy Editor of The Rumpus, holds an MA in English from Rutgers University, tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →