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SUMMARY:LET’S READ + TALK ABOUT CLIMATE - CLIMATE LITERATURE DISCUSSION
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books for community-led conversations about climate change\, seen through fiction and non-fiction books. The Climate Literature Book Club meets every third Wednesday of the month! Parable of the Talents as well as The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming are the books featured in this week’s discussion \nShop with us for 10% off these titles!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/lets-read-talk-about-climate-climate-literature-discussion/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Make Me a Monster - Kalynn Bayron
DESCRIPTION:“Sometimes the dead don’t stay dead” \nJoin us at Buffalo Street Books with author Kalynn Bayron for a reading from her newest novel\, Make Me a Monster
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/make-me-a-monster-kalynn-bayron/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:READING TOGETHER - Katarzyna Bartoszynska
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books for Katarzyna Bartoszynska in conversation with Alexis Becker as we celebrate the release of Reading Together \nAbout the Author:  Local author Katarzyna Bartoszynska is a professor in English and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Ithaca College\, and is also a writer\, translator\, and avid reader.  \nAbout the Book: Reading Together is a memoir-essay about book clubs and different ways we read with different people; how books create community.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-together-katarzyna-bartoszynska/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T150000
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SUMMARY:ALMANAC: A MURMURATION - Christine Gelineau
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books with local author Christine Gelineau for observations on the intersections between real life\, stories\, and the natural world in this contemplative memoir as she reads from her new book\, ALMANAC: A Murmuration \nAbout the Author: Christine Gelineau is past Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University and teaches creative nonfiction and poetry at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University\, a program she helped to found. She is the prize-winning author of three books of poetry: Crave\, Appetite for the Divine\, and Remorseless Loyalty; and editor\, with Jack B. Bedell\, of the anthology French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets. \nAlmanac: A Murmuration is a memoir that is stitched through with a thread of autobiography and by a thread about the nature of language and narrative: the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves\, the stories we fashion about how we matter as a nation\, and stories we weave about our relationships with other-than-human animals and with the endangered natural world we are a part of.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/almanac-a-murmuration-christine-gelineau/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T173000
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SUMMARY:POETRY AS SPELLCASTING - POETRY FOR PALESTINE
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books for Poetry as Spellcasting – A Reading For Palestine \n There will be a collection of Author Readings\, as well as Zines\, Broadsides\, and Performances
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/poetry-as-spellcasting-poetry-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T180000
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SUMMARY:QUEER HORROR BOOK CLUB - CHLORINE
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books with author Jade Song\, and our staff member Anamarie\, in a book club discussion of Chlorine! A book about a ravenous swimmer and her longing to become a mermaid\, by any means necessary.  \nJade Song is a writer and artist whose debut novel Chlorine was published by William Morrow. Awarded the American Library Association Alex Award and the Writer’s Center First Novel Prize\, Chlorine was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and will be translated into French\, Chinese\, Italian\, and other languages. Their second novel\, I Love You Don’t Die\, and debut short story collection\, Ox Ghost Snake Demon\, are forthcoming from William Morrow in March 2026 and 2027. Song has received support and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Black List\, which selected her adapted screenplay of Chlorine for its annual Writers Lab. She is based in Brooklyn\, where they pole dance and live with too many books. \nInterested in other horrifying reads? Check out our Queer Horror Book Club page to get content warnings\, meeting times\, book titles\, and more!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queer-horror-book-club-chlorine/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T190000
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SUMMARY:BIPOC Rom. Book Club - Love Is a War Song
DESCRIPTION:A book club focused on BIPOC authors that write romance and fantasy based on central-america\, meso-america and indigenous cultures!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bipoc-rom-book-club-love-is-a-war-song/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250921T160000
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SUMMARY:ECODEVIANCE: A GENERATIVE WRITING CLASS
DESCRIPTION:With nicole v. basta. ECODEVIANCE is a term borrowed from the poet CA Conrad. Here\, we will use the idea (“subversive syllabus for a queer ecopoetics”) to practice presence with our words and with the earth outside the typical constraints of our society and our minds. Through extensive multi-step prompts\, you will be asked to burrow forward without turning back (i.e. keep your pen moving in a way that allows your mind to slip out of its linear grip). This is a generative creative writing class where we will use the cycles of nature and the vastness of time (starting back in pre-human times) to explore unconventional ways to approach a page and emerge more potent writers. We will reject time and question what it means to be in touch with “nature” in a world constantly distancing itself/ exploiting nature. We will also borrow inspiration from queer revolutionaries and resistors. This class is meant for all types of creatives\, all people.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ecodeviance-a-generative-writing-class/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000
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SUMMARY:ZALAZNICK READING SERIES: KEVIN YOUNG
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 18\, 5pm \nLOCATION: Rhodes-Rawling Auditorium\, Klarman Hall KG70 \nThe Fall 2025 Zalaznick Reading Series kicks off with a reading by Kevin Young\nKevin Young is the poetry editor of The New Yorker\, where he hosts the poetry podcast\, and is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation. He was the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 2008 – 2016\, and served as Curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library—a 75\,000-volume collection of rare and modern poetry housed at Emory University – from 2005 – 2016.\nHe is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose\, including Brown (Knopf\, 2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf\, 2016)\, longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours (Knopf\, 2014)\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry; and Stones (Knopf\, 2021) a Library Journal Top Ten poetry titles of 2021\, and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.\nYoung is the editor of ten other volumes\, including The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton\, 1965- 2010 (BOA Editions\, 2012)\, The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (Bloomsbury\, 2012)\, and African American Poetry 1770–2020: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America\, October 2020). He is series editor and wrote the introduction and forward for Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition. Most recently he was editor for A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 (Knopf\, February 4\, 2025).\nHe is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. In 2021 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and elected as a Fellow of the Society of American Historians. In 2024 he received the Harvard Arts Medal. \nReception and book signing to follow in the English Lounge\, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/zalaznick-reading-series-kevin-young/
LOCATION:Cornell University\, 232 East Ave\, Ithaca\, 14853
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000
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SUMMARY:Return of The Lost Son - Christopher Gonzales
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books with author Christopher Gonzales to celebrate the release of Return of The Lost Son. The memoir is set primarily in the Ithaca of the 60’s as the author explores his fathers past\, and his own heritage.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/return-of-the-lost-son-christopher-gonzales/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T183000
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SUMMARY:CLIMATE LIT. DISCUSSION - LET'S READ + TALK ABOUT CLIMATE
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books for community discussions about climate change\, seen through fiction and non-fiction books!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/climate-lit-discussion-lets-read-talk-about-climate/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250907T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250907T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Club - Neither Wolf Nor Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books with author Kent Nerburn for a book club discussion of Neither Wolf Nor Dog!   \nBook club titles are 10% off at BSB!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-club-neither-wolf-nor-dog/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T170000
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SUMMARY:CHILD OF LIGHT - JESI BENDER
DESCRIPTION:esi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York.  She is the author of two novels\, Child of Light and The Book of the Last Word\, the play Kinderkrankenhaus\, and a poetry collection Dangerous Women.  In her free time\, she runs KERNPUNKT Press\, a home for experimental writing. www.jesibender.com  \nSynopsis – Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged from her family. After a series of financial failures\, they reunite in upstate NY in the Spring of 1896. Together in the new house but basically strangers\, Ambrétte endeavors to connect to her parents through their interests: Spiritualism for her Maman and electricity for her Papa.  In her pursuit\, Ambrétte is drawn into a deep abyss of the unknown as she learns more about both death and the invisible pulse of the human spirit. \nThis event will be a reading and conversation with moderator Jen Savran Kelly.  We will discuss experimental literature\, upstate New York history\, Spiritualism\, and the beginnings of electrical engineering.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/child-of-light-jesi-bender/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T180000
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SUMMARY:ERICA ROSE EBERHART - DIMINISHED
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Erica Rose Eberhart in conversation with Wren Cotrone for the release of her novel Diminished \nAuthor bio:\nErica Rose Eberhart is a neurodivergent\, disabled writer of queer characters\, dragons\, girls who grow feathers\, and boys who become trees. She resides in the Finger Lakes of New York with her partner and child\, and has sampled landscape inspiration from her time living near mountain ranges of New York\, Pennsylvania\, and Virginia. Having written stories since she could string a sentence together\, she now focuses primarily on young adult and adult fantasy\, as well as whimsical personal essays.\nErica dabbles in many creative pursuits such as embroidery\, crochet\, painting and baking\, but writing is her first love. She has a BA and MA in English\, as well as a copyediting certification. Erica has worked with words her entire life\, whether at libraries\, bookstores\, or as a communications and technical editor for the federal government\, periodicals\, and novels. Her writing has appeared in Bella Grace Magazine and her debut novel\, Tarnished\, released in January 2025. The Elder Tree Trilogy is her first trilogy. \nSynopsis:\nA queen haunted by ghosts. A dragon cursed in human skin. A kingdom on the brink of war.  \nIn the aftermath of her father’s death\, Queen Greer stands at the edge of grief and revelation. Magic—once forbidden—has returned to Wimleigh\, but so have enemies. When a prophetic funeral warns of rising death\, it sets into motion a chain of events that will test the mettle of queens\, heirs\, and warriors alike.\nAs Greer grapples with panic attacks and the vengeful ghost of her father\, her sister\, Caitriona\, struggles under the weight of monstrous expectations. Bearing horns\, scales\, and the voice of a dragon in her mind\, Caitriona must lead a secret mission with Ailith MacCree—now a royal guard—north to find a lost prince who could stop a war—if he’s willing to fight.\nBut treachery weaves through the forests\, poisons creep in\, and fae assassins lurk in the shadows. With kingdoms falling to darkness\, an ancient tree bleeding out its final life\, and bonds shattered by betrayal\, Wimleigh’s hope rests on a dragon no longer afraid to rise. \nWhen magic is reborn and monsters wear crowns\, who dares to lead the charge?
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/erica-rose-eberhart-diminished/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
CREATED:20250721T152633Z
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SUMMARY:THE PARTS OF HIM I KEPT: THE GIFTS OF MY FATHERS MADNESS
DESCRIPTION:Join Natasha Williams with Sandra Sorensen (Executive Director of NAMI Finger Lakes) for a conversation on the power of storytelling to help make sense of caring for those with mental illness \nTHE PARTS OF HIM I KEPT: The Gifts of My Father’s Madness\, is an intimate account of a daughter’s coming of age in the face of her father’s schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member.  \nIn the tradition of Michael Greenberg’s Hurry Down Sunshine and Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road\, The parts of Him I Kept asks us to consider the ways mental illness is as much a social issue as it is a biological condition.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-parts-of-him-i-kept-the-gifts-of-my-fathers-madness/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250727T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250727T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
CREATED:20250721T152611Z
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SUMMARY:FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGY CRAFT FAIR
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books for the Future Archaeology Craft Fair \nJuly 27th: 11AM – 5PM \nPresented by Buffalo Street Books\, Show Pony Studios\, & The Paleontological Research Institution – and featuring special guest Museum of the Earth
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/future-archaeology-craft-fair/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250629T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
CREATED:20250610T210742Z
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SUMMARY:NORTH ROSE 1940 – ALEXANDER SKUTT
DESCRIPTION:If Wayne County seceded from New York to became our 51st state\, only three entire states would surpass it in apple production. In the early part of the 20th century\, North Rose claimed the title of the busiest railroad shipping station for fruit in the country. Hundreds of farmers planted millions of apple trees just inland from Lake Ontario\, one of the Great Lakes. The ability of a huge body of water to moderate winter temperatures created a micro-climate with the perfect temperatures for apple trees to flourish. Some local fruit farms also grew pears\, peaches\, and sour cherries. \nSmall commercial centers grew to provide these farmers\, farm laborers\, and their families with stores to buy food and other supplies\, hardware\, and appliances. They were also a natural location for schools\, churches and community organizations. North Rose was such a commercial center. One of its principal functions was to provide a convenient market for farmers to sell the goods that they grew. \nAfter the railroad passed through North Rose\, fruit warehouses and other enterprises grew along the tracks and brought a population and business boom to the hamlet of North Rose. \nNorth Rose 1940 is an unusually thorough history of the nearly 190 households in North Rose at the time of the 1940 Federal Census. The story of each family is told in complete and entertaining detail. \nAlex Skutt lived in North Rose until he completed second grade. He spent long summers at the Skutt cottage on LeRoy Island. Skutt then moved to Ithaca\, NY\, where he still lives. Alex’s grandfather\, Orin Skutt\, and father\, A. Gray Skutt\, owned and operated O. A. Skutt Co.\, an international dealer in red kidney beans. Alex\, a life-long entrepreneur\, has owned three bookstores\, several video stores\, a game store\, and a book publishing company\, McBooks Press. Jane Flood Skutt was his mother\, and Marilyn Skutt Roberts is his sister. McBooks Press was sold to Rowman & Littlefield on March 15\, 2019. At that time\, Skutt retired.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/north-rose-1940-alexander-skutt/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T160000
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SUMMARY:A READING AND CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN STONE AND JESSICA FEMIANI
DESCRIPTION:About the Books: \nEverybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them is a collection of poems exploring what women hold\, what they keep\, and how they let go— of sorrow\, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer\, Ellen Stone writes poems exploring motherhood and mental illness\, sexual assault\, marriage and parenthood—as well as how loss filters down through family generations. The poems investigate daughters leaving home while trying to carry home within them. The moon is the mother in the book\, waxing and waning\, but always there\, always coming back around. \nThe American Gun is a poem in ten parts delving into the modern phenomenon of mass shootings in the United States. It’s a narrative account of a young teacher in NYC wrestling with the reality of American gun culture. From the classroom to the subway platform\, The American Gun is a meditation on tragedy and what it means to live in a country where domestic terrorism is a constant threat. Femiani’s poetry illuminates what the media cannot: the residuals of monumental loss\, months and years after the fact\, in the face of an unyielding “democracy” unable to protect the lives of its citizenry and its children. \nAbout the Authors: \nEllen Stone grew up on the north branch of the Susquehanna River in the Appalachian Mountains of rural Pennsylvania. She taught in Kansas and Michigan public schools for 35 years while raising three daughters with her husband. Ellen advises a poetry club at Community High School\, co-hosts a monthly poetry series\, Skazat!\, and is a founding editor of Public School Poetry in Ann Arbor\, Michigan.  She is the author of Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them (Mayapple Press\, 2025)\, What Is in the Blood (Mayapple Press\, 2020)\, and The Solid Living World which won the Michigan Writers’ Cooperative Press chapbook prize in 2013. Ellen’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart prize and Best of the Net.  \nJessica Femiani is the granddaughter of immigrants. She received her PhD in English at Binghamton University (SUNY). Her poems and essays have been published in the Paterson Literary Review\, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History\, The Italian American Review\, #MeToo\, Anch’io\, and Mom Egg Review. She lives in Binghamton\, New York\, is an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Oneonta\, where she teaches composition and creative writing.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/a-reading-and-conversation-with-ellen-stone-and-jessica-femiani/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T190000
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ OPEN MIC - LOVE POEMS
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Buffalo Street Books for an open mic night and share queer love poems of any kind (including self-love!) \nWith a reading of “Winter Becomes Us” by Laura Ward\, from Love is For All of Us.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/lgbtq-open-mic-love-poems/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
CREATED:20250605T010754Z
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Fiction Writing Workshop with Elisabeth Nonas
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books for a writing workshop series with incredible local author\, Elisabeth Nonas! \nThis practical workshop will help you develop a work-in-progress or begin a new project in a safe\, encouraging environment!\nThrough discussion of writing exercises and prompts we will cover elements of craft—structure\, character development\, dialogue—as well as process\, deadlines\, critique guidelines\, even writer’s block. \nThree Wednesdays in June from 5 – 7 PM\, starting on June 4th.\nSliding scale $40-$60 for all three classes.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/lgbtq-fiction-writing-workshop-with-elisabeth-nonas/2025-06-18/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250613T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
CREATED:20250609T144435Z
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SUMMARY:A SONG FOR OLAF: A MEMOIR OF SIBLING LOVE AT THE DAWN OF THE HIV-AIDS PANDEMIC
DESCRIPTION:Join Jennifer Boulanger\, in conversation with Elisabeth Nonas\, for a book-talk that highlights the historical and cultural touchstones that weave through this personal narrative. \nAbout the Book: It’s the summer of 1969. And ink on the headlines about the Stonewall Uprising is barely dry when the entire country is mesmerized by a musical revolution rocking Woodstock. Smack dab in the middle of it all is teenage Olaf\, about to leave home for his first year at college in upstate New York. \nGay\, gorgeous and musically gifted\, Olaf is the only son of a close-knit Italian-American family. Ready or not\, he will soon find himself surfing major waves of change empowered by the Gay Rights Movement of the 70s. Unbeknownst to him and his younger sister\, whom he lovingly called Holine\, he’s about to confront the deadly perils of entrenched homophobia and an emerging HIV-AIDS epidemic. \nIn this expansive memoir steeped in historicity\, author Jennifer Boulanger gifts readers with a moving story about truth and lies\, societal upheaval and families in crises\, as seen through the lens of a loving sister and insightful chronicler. \nAbout the Author: Jennifer Boulanger is an activist\, educator\, and freelance journalist\, Professor and Dean Emeritus from a NYS community college. An originator of the Safe Space initiative for local LGBTQ community college students\, she holds a Master of Science degree in literacy from SUNY Cortland and a doctorate in Adult Education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She is an advocate for local refugee resettlement and serves as Vice President of Whitney’s Legacy\, a foundation dedicated to supporting and empowering women.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/a-song-for-olaf-a-memoir-of-sibling-love-at-the-dawn-of-the-hiv-aids-pandemic/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250608T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250608T160000
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SUMMARY:SHOPPING LISTS FOR THE APOCALYPSE – HARVEY WALDMAN
DESCRIPTION:Ithaca’s own Burns Family\, Jeannie and Annie of the Burns Sisters\, and Patrick\, Co-Producer of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”\, will present and moderate a Q and A with Harvey Waldman\, reading from his new book of poems\, Shopping Lists for the Apocalypse; filled with lyric memories\, travel notes\, laughter and tears on a journey over the last 70 years\, one from his childhood in the Bronx\, through a life in Greenwich Village\, the Catskills\, California\, London and Italy. Experiences of nature\, family\, friends\, work\, births\, deaths\, and elections in our times\, recalled with pathos and humor. Employing metaphors from history\, pop culture\, physics\, gardening and the Tarot\, Waldman makes the case for hope and survival. \nHarvey Waldman was born in the Bronx after the Second World War. He fled to Northern California as a teenager in the “Summer of Love”. Street theatre anti-war activist\, dishwasher\, farm worker\, oil refinery boilermaker\, taxi driver\, barista\, librarian\, Santa Claus. Lead actor in 1976 feature film Off the Wall. A father in need of a more sustaining career\, he spent over forty years in film and TV production\, culminating as Producer of the mini series Mildred Pierce for HBO\, Blindspot for NBC\, and Manifest for Netflix. All while poetry lurked\, awaiting its turn — passionate\, unkempt cousin long ignored. He and his wife\, film editor Camilla Toniolo have homes in New York and Northern Italy.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/shopping-lists-for-the-apocalypse-harvey-waldman/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
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SUMMARY:READING WIDELY BOOK CLUB PRESENTS ENDPAPERS WITH JEN SAVRAN KELLY!
DESCRIPTION:Join BSB staff for a conversation on Endpapers\, with special guest\, author Jen Savran Kelly! \nBook club titles are 10% off! \nAbout the Book: It’s 2003\, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn’t created anything of her own in years—and with nothing ready to show at her major gallery debut in six weeks\, time is of the essence. What’s more\, although she doesn’t have a word for it yet\, Dawn is genderqueer and she’s struggling to feel safe expressing herself.\nOne day at work\, Dawn discovers something hidden under the endpapers of an old book: the torn-off corner of a 1950s lesbian pulp novel\, with an illustration of a woman looking into a mirror and seeing a man’s face. Even more intriguing is the queer love letter written on the back. Dawn becomes obsessed with tracking down the author of the letter\, convinced the mysterious writer can help her find a place in the world and also solve the trickiest puzzle of all: how she truly wants to live her life.\nA sharply written\, evocative debut\, Endpapers is both a page-turning bookish mystery and an unforgettable story about the journey toward authenticity and the hard conversations we owe ourselves in pursuit of a world where no one has to hide.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-presents-endpapers-with-jen-savran-kelly/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250527T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250527T193000
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SUMMARY:Justin Cox\, Alyssa Perry\, Hilary Plum & Zach Savich - A Reading
DESCRIPTION:Justin Cox\, Alyssa Perry\, Hilary Plum\, and Zach Savich are coming to Ithaca from the midwest\, having written extraordinary books of fiction\, poetry\, and memoir-for-performance. For this genre-blurring event\, our four talented visitors will each read from their new books\, all published within the past year\, and then Tompkins County Poet Laureate Dan Rosenberg will lead a Q&A. \nJustin Cox’s debut collection of poetry\, Stock Pond\, catalogs ecological and social impacts of industrial agriculture in the rural and the remote. Justin teaches at the University of Iowa and has been a fellow at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington\, New Zealand. \nAlyssa Perry is poetry editor at the Cleveland Review of Books and an editor at the small press publisher Rescue Press. Her debut collection of poetry\, Oily Doily\, offers music as intricate and remorseless as its subjects: empire\, centuries of bourgeois kitsch\, 80s flicks\, tech strip-mining our curiosity\, sympathy\, and desire for solidarity. \nHilary Plum\, author of five books of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, including the acclaimed Hole Studies\, will read from her new novel\, State Champ: the lucid\, strange\, and deeply metal story of a woman risking her life and finding her own way to protest the end of abortion rights. \nZach Savich\, author of many award-winning works of poetry and prose\, will read from his new book of memoir-for-performance\, A Field of Telephones. This endlessly surprising book combines fictional lectures\, performance texts\, archival hijinks\, and the personal\, considering how “influence” can offer more than critical ventriloquism and how a “student” is one whose disorientations can reorient the field.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/justin-cox-alyssa-perry-hilary-plum-zach-savich-a-reading/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T180000
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SUMMARY:Mother of Bourbon - Eric Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Mother of Bourbon – Eric Goodman\nMother of Bourbon: The Greatest American Whiskey Story Never Told is the never-before-told story of a pioneering and visionary woman who achieved success in a system designed to suppress her\, and against a government that strived to repress her. Mary’s courage and determination are the hallmarks that live on today in Mary Dowling Whiskey\, as extraordinary and distinctive as the woman whose name it bears. \nEric Goodman is the author of seven previous novels\, including Curveball (2024). Educated at Yale and Stanford\, Goodman lives in Sonoma County and Mecklenburg\, New York. For many years\, he directed the creative writing program at Miami University (Ohio). His previous novels have been named Indies Finalist for General Fiction and Silver Book of the Year for Gay/Lesbian Fiction. He likes his whiskey neat.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/mother-of-bourbon-eric-goodman/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T200000
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SUMMARY:Behooved Book Launch - M. Stevenson with Isabel Sterling
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Behooved on pub-day! Pre-order now for stickers\, a bookmark\, and a bookplate! \nAbout the Book: A charming slow-burn romantasy featuring a duty-bound noblewoman with a chronic illness\, a prince who would rather be in a library than on a throne\, and a magical ride through a world of cozy enchantment \nBianca knows her duty comes before her heart. So when the threat of war looms\, she agrees to marry the neighboring kingdom’s heir. But not all royal weddings are a fairytale\, and Prince Aric\, Bianca’s betrothed\, is cold\, aloof\, and seems to hate her on sight. \nTo make matters worse\, on their wedding night\, an assassination attempt goes awry—leaving Aric magically transformed into a horse. Bianca does what any bride in this situation would do: she mounts her new husband and rides away to safety. \nSunset returns Aric to human form\, but they soon discover the assassination attempt is part of a larger plot against the throne. Worse\, Bianca has been framed for Aric’s murder\, and she’s now saddled with a husband who is a horse by day and a frustratingly attractive man by night. \nAs an unexpected romance begins galloping away with their hearts\, Bianca and Aric must rely on each other to unravel the curse and save the throne. \nM. Stevenson is a writer\, educator\, and naturalist with degrees from Brown University (B.A.\, Geology-Biology) and the University of Idaho (M.Ed.\, Environmental Education). An avid swing dancer\, she’s often found dancing lindy hop or wandering the woods talking to plants and birds. She is a dual US/Irish citizen and is based in the Fingerlakes region of New York.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/behooved-book-launch-m-stevenson-with-isabel-sterling/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T160000
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SUMMARY:Storytime and Fundraiser with Beverly J. Martin Elementary School
DESCRIPTION:Join BJM principal\, staff\, and caregivers for Story Time on Saturday\, May 17 at 12 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books! \nSupport Beverly J. Martin Elementary School during this special fundraising weekend! 20% of all sales will be donated to BJM for free student programming.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/storytime-and-fundraiser-with-beverly-j-martin-elementary-school/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
CREATED:20250509T191026Z
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SUMMARY:Hover - Liza Flum
DESCRIPTION:Join Liza Flum for her Ithaca launch of Hover. A reading will be followed by a discussion with poet Benjamin Garcia. \nAbout Hover:\nPoems in this collection focus on queer polyamorous families\, considering the ways in which people in radical family structures are both highly visible and erased. From hummingbirds to stars\, historical records\, and cemetery monuments\, Flum searches for images to represent lives and loves like her own and to find lasting traces of queer and chosen family. In the poetic lexicon of Hover\, hummingbirds become emblems of ungraspable survival and vitality\, while records on paper and in stone afford enduring\, though limited\, representations. The book explores sexuality\, love\, reproductive choice\, and infertility in sonnets and expansive prose meditations. \nLiza Flum is a poet and teacher. Her poems have appeared in journals including AGNI\, Narrative\, Poet Lore\, and Washington Square Review. She is a recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant\, and her writing has been supported by fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation\, Vermont Studio Center\, Aspen Summer Words\, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She lives with her family in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Hover (Omnidawn\, 2025) is her first book. \nBenjamin Garcia is a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in poetry. His first collection\, Thrown in the Throat\, was selected for the National Poetry Series\, the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize\, and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He worked for ten years as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in New York’s Finger Lakes region\, where he received the Jill Gonzalez Health Educator Award recognizing contributions to HIV treatment and prevention. A CantoMundo and Lambda Literary fellow\, he serves as core faculty at Alma College’s low-residency MFA program. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in: AGNI\, American Poetry Review\, Indiana Review\, Kenyon Review\, and New England Review.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/hover-liza-flum/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Return to the Sky - Tina Morris
DESCRIPTION:Alone in a vast wildlife refuge with little direction and no experience\, a Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology student found herself responsible for a project of historical importance—to bring the Bald Eagle back from near extinction. \nIn Return to the Sky\, Tina Morris\, one of the first women to engage in a raptor reintroduction program\, shares her remarkable story that is as much about the human spirit as it is about birds of prey. \nIn the spring of 1975\, on the eve of the US Bicentennial\, Tina was selected to reintroduce Bald Eagles into New York State in the hope that the species could eventually repopulate eastern North America. Young and female in a male-dominated field\, Tina was handed an assignment to rehabilitate a population that had been devastated by the effects of DDT. The challenges were prodigious—there was no model to emulate for a bird of the eagle’s size\, for one—but Tina soon found that her own path to self-discovery and confidence-building was deeply connected with the survival of the species she was chosen to protect. Ultimately\, Tina spent two years playing “mother” to seven eaglets at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge\, east of Seneca Falls in New York. Driven by her passion\, she discovered unknown reserves of patience\, determination\, and grit. \nAt a time when the mass extinction of bird species is a critical global topic\, Return to the Sky reminds us how\, with a mix of common sense\, resilience\, and resolve\, humans can be effective stewards of the natural world. \nAbout the Author: Tina received her graduate degree from Cornell University in ornithology and wildlife biology. Her research on Bald Eagle Reintroductions was conducted through the Lab of Ornithology and the project took place in Montezuma refuge\, an hour north of Ithaca. She has presented at Montezuma and the Eaton Birding Society in Nov. 2024 and will be giving talks at the Lab of Ornithology and the Onondaga Library in May 2025 as well as the Rochester Bird Club in Nov.2025. The Bald Eagles she reintroduced in 1976-77 are now thriving throughout the Finger Lakes region and enjoyed by residents of Ithaca every day. TIna’s book tells their story of their disappearance and return\, which all should be excited to hear.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/return-to-the-sky-tina-morris/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T163104
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SUMMARY:At the End of the World There Is a Pond - Steven Duong with Farah Bakaari
DESCRIPTION:Poet and fiction writer Steven Duong will read from his debut poetry collection\, At the End of the World There Is a Pond\, then engage in a lively conversation and moderated Q&A led by Farah Bakaari\, PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University\, and soon-to-be visiting professor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley\, before concluding with a book signing. \nAbout the Book: At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupture—the ruptures of mental illness and addiction\, of migration and displacement\, of violence\, familial conflict\, and ecological catastrophe—and yet the speakers engage with despair and playfulness in equal measure\, always allowing humor\, irony\, and the exuberance of contemporary life to bend darkness toward something like hope. Again and again\, Duong’s writing excavates the unnatural conditions of a seemingly natural world\, asking us to pay studied attention to its inhabitants. His poems force us to keep looking: at the betta fish trapped in its mason jar\, the forest choked by invasive kudzu\, the elephant wounded in a landmine blast. Through its relentless scrutiny and exacting care\, this magisterial debut collection poses an impossible question: how can we reconcile a deep love for the world\, in all its buzzing\, wriggling aliveness\, with an equally deep\, self-destructive desire to leave it behind? \nAbout the Author: Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego. He is the author of the debut poetry collection At the End of the World There Is a Pond (W. W. Norton\, 2025). His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Guernica\, and the Yale Review\, among other publications\, and his short fiction is featured in Catapult\, The Drift\, and The Best American Short Stories 2024. The recipient of fellowships and awards from Kundiman\, the Academy of American Poets\, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is currently a creative writing fellow in poetry at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta. \nFarah Bakaari is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century African literature\, postcolonial studies\, political theory and the novel as well as the relationship between aesthetics and politics. She was born and raised in Somaliland.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/at-the-end-of-the-world-there-is-a-pond-steven-duong-with-farah-bakaari/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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