Category — events

Tomorrow at the Athenaeum, a group of writers will be reading from the anthology Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana. Writers attending the reading include co-editor Carol Bonomo (Ahearn) Albright and contributors Ann Hood, Mary Caponegro, Peter Covino, Christine Palamidessi Moore, and Christina Bevilacqua. Just the thing to rev one up for Saint Joseph’s Day, possibly my favorite food-related holiday, which is less than two weeks away.

Tangential story: during college, I used to work at the Warwick Mall with Ann Hood’s aunt, who was kind of mean and swore more than I had ever heard any old lady swear before (or since.) We got along really well, though, I think because I wasn’t a girl and could count money without making a big fuss about it.

Providence Athenaeum
251 Benefit St.
5-7 PM
Free

Gillian Kiley and Michael Carr will be reading at Ada Books tonight as part of the delightful Publicly Complex series.

About them:
Gillian Kiley’s work has appeared in various publications including the Colorado Review and American Letters & Commentary, and is forthcoming in Keyhole and in the Fence magazine and From the Fishouse anthologies. She is a fan of Pessoa and his heteronyms. She has taught literature and writing at the University of Iowa and the University of Rhode Island, coddled artists and writers at an artists’ colony, and now just enjoys living among artists and sort of enjoys working for Brown. There is a video of her dancing in a sheep costume to promote the annual party Woolly Fair. This video won’t go away no matter how hard she wishes it would.

Michael Carr is the author of Out Another, recently published by Petrichord Books. His other chapbooks include Softer White (House Press, 2007) and Platinum Blonde (Fewer & Further, 2006).  He edited A Book of Prophecies by John Wieners, and is an editor of Katalanche Press.  Cambridge, MA is where he lives.

Ada Books
717 Westminster St
6 pm
Free

New Art For The People, the winter fundraiser for Not About The Buildings, wraps up tomorrow.  Stop by Uptown Top Rankin from 10-4 for your last chance to see work by ten local artists:

Jen Corace
Jean Cozzens
Jyll Ethier-Mullen
Shawn Gilheeney
Corey Greyhorse
Delia Kovac
Alec Thibodeau
Jason Tranchida
Neal Walsh
Tom West

At our opening we raised enough money to plan events for the next few months, and any day now we’ll be announcing the first ones (including this blog, which I’ve yet to formally tell anybody about.)

Tonight at 6:30, the Theta Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will be reading from a selection of books about notable African-Americans.  It’s free, and kids are encouraged to attend.

Providence Public Library
South Providence Branch
441 Prairie Avenue
Providence, RI 02907