Week 10 Events & Deadlines: One Book, One Chicago + MMLA + Application Reminders!

Happy Week 10, everyone! Scroll down for a few reminders of upcoming events and deadlines for the week ahead (including our One Book, One Chicago announcement for Gabrielle Zevin’s author visit). [The dates to mark down are this Wednesday (13th), this Friday (15th), and this Saturday (16th)!] 1. One Book, One Chicago’s banned book: Tomorrow…Continue reading Week 10 Events & Deadlines: One Book, One Chicago + MMLA + Application Reminders!

Anxious About Climate Change? Take Solace In Art At THE DEAD ZOO Poem-Film and Conversation!

Join us at The Dead Zoo film and reading on Tuesday, October 22, from 6:30 – 7:30, at DePaul’s Cortelyou Commons (2324 N. Fremont Street), for DePaul’s Sustainability Month! A 20-minute film based on Prof. Chris Green’s sonnet crown The Dead Zoo (poems from the perspective of endangered or extinct animals, plants, and places) will play silently while other poets help him read…Continue reading Anxious About Climate Change? Take Solace In Art At THE DEAD ZOO Poem-Film and Conversation!

Tune in to Watch Francesca Royster in Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Friday, February 17, 2023 – 7:30pm to 8:30pm

This is a virtual event hosted on crowdcast. Charis welcomes Francesca Royster in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs for a discussion of Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance. A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides. Follow the link for more info.…Continue reading Tune in to Watch Francesca Royster in Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Friday, February 17, 2023 – 7:30pm to 8:30pm