Join us for a poetry night featuring local talent during Banned Books Week! HOSTED BY SU AND LEWIS Su will be reading new poems written for her State Arts Board project called Place Your Unprotected Hands Over Your Eyes (to protect them). These are poems incited by her father witnessing 12 atomic detonations when he […]
For the the first time, Banned Books Week, a campaign launched in 1982 in response to increased numbers of challenges to books in schools, libraries and bookstores, will include Alexandria-area writers and readers at a new local event titled “Let Freedom Read: A Celebration of Banned Books.” The celebration will include short readings from books […]