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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Earth Day Flower Market @ BSB
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books for an Earth Day celebration! We’ll have a children’s story hour\, pollinator crafts\, a free plant cutting swap\, and more!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/earth-day-flower-market-bsb/
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:20250419T160000
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SUMMARY:Culinary History of the Finger Lakes - A Tasting
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the release of the newly edited “Culinary History of the Finger Lakes\,” join Buffalo Street Books for an incredible evening with sommelier\, Laura Winter Falk\, and Hazelnut Kitchen Chef\, Matt Hummel!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/culinary-history-of-the-finger-lakes-a-tasting/
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:20250418T170000
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SUMMARY:Buzz Kill - J. Robert Lennon with Alexandra Kleeman
DESCRIPTION:Join J. Robert Lennon for a reading and conversation with Alexandra Kleeman on his new book\, Buzz Kill. \nAbout the Book:  When the shadowy circumstances of a relative’s death are brought to light\, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. \nThe Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home\, if unequal\, PI enterprise. But then Lila receives a shocking piece of news from an old friend of their Aunt Ruth’s: their aunt’s suicide more than a decade earlier might not have been what it seemed. A lawyer\, she had represented a disgraced chemist working on a dangerous synthetic opioid. But once the client\, Travis Nutt\, was poised to lose\, he went rogue and unleashed the adulterant as a street drug\, in conjunction with a shadowy cartel. Can the twins solve the mystery of their aunt’s death and bring this cultlike billionaire to justice? Meanwhile\, Jane has been invited to attend a writers’ conference\, an outlet she relishes until her dangerously confessional prose is seen by the wrong eyes. Her teenage daughter\, Chloe\, becomes the victim of a deepfake video while campaigning for class president and aggressively pursues the instigators\, unaware of the muscle behind them. And old Harry\, Jane’s father\, has stumbled upon a piece of unknown history that opens an unexpected door. \nBuzz Kill is a rambunctious\, kinetic\, elastically braided narrative of a ride that shows J. Robert Lennon is at the height of his powers. \nAbout the Author:  J. Robert Lennon is the author of two story collections\, Pieces For The Left Hand and See You in Paradise\, and eight novels\, including Mailman\, Castle\, Familiar\, Broken River\, and most recently\, Hard Girls. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana\, and has published short fiction in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Playboy\, Granta\, The Paris Review\, Electric Literature\, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, The Guardian\, and The London Review of Books\, and he lives in Ithaca\, New York\, where he teaches writing at Cornell University.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/buzz-kill-j-robert-lennon-with-alexandra-kleeman/
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:Climate Literature Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Talk with others in our community about climate change\, seen through contemporary fiction and non-fiction books. \nAbout the Books:  \nThe Annual Migration of Clouds –  \nA novella set in post-climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community. The world is nothing like it once was: climate disasters have wracked the continent\, causing food shortages\, ending industry\, and leaving little behind. Then came Cad\, mysterious mind-altering fungi that invade the bodies of the now scattered citizenry. Reid\, a young woman who carries this parasite\, has been given a chance to get away — to move to one of the last remnants of pre-disaster society — but she can’t bring herself to abandon her mother and the community that relies on her. When she’s offered a coveted place on a dangerous and profitable mission\, she jumps at the opportunity to set her family up for life\, but how can Reid ask people to put their trust in her when she can’t even trust her own mind? With keen insight and biting prose\, Premee Mohamed delivers a deeply personal tale in this post-apocalyptic hopepunk novella that reflects on the meaning of community and asks what we owe to those who have lifted us up. \nOn the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America –  \nA vivid\, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible. Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration\, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind\, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly. Abrahm Lustgarten’s On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows\, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding in coastal regions; extreme heat and humidity in the South; and droughts that will make farming all but impossible across much of the nation. Reporting from the front lines of climate migration\, Lustgarten explains how a pattern of shortsighted policies encouraged millions to settle in vulnerable parts of the country\, and introduces us to homeowners in California\, insurance customers in Florida\, and ranchers in Colorado who are being forced to make the agonizing choice of when\, not whether\, to leave. Employing the most current climate data and predictive models\, he shows how America’s population will be squeezed northward into a shrinking triangle of land stretching from Tennessee to Maine to the Great Lakes. The places many of us now call home are at risk\, and On the Move reveals how we’ll deal with the consequences.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T160000
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SUMMARY:Poems by QWERTY - A Reading and Workshop with Carolyn Clark
DESCRIPTION:Poems by QWERTY\, Carolyn Clark’s latest book\, expands on her passion of composing lyric poems on an antique typewriter. The reading followed by a small workshop wherein anyone who would like to try their hand at spontaneous poem composition can have the opportunity. Bring your own typewriter if you wish\, but another one or two will be available. The goal is to familiarize the local community of Ithaca with the merits of typewriter poetry. Each poem in this delightful new book is from a carbon copy – an artifact of something composed primarily at Ithaca Farmers Markets between in 2023 and 2024. Locally minted at our amazing resource\, WordPro of Ithaca.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/poems-by-qwerty-a-reading-and-workshop-with-carolyn-clark/
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:20250410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T000749
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SUMMARY:State of the Free Press - Mickey Huff
DESCRIPTION:Join Mickey Huff for a conversation on State of the Free Press 2025 with Carolina Cedraschi and Elle Wilcox. \nAbout the Book: In their new book\, Project Censored highlights the vital stories that corporate media underreported\, exposes rampant news abuse\, and tracks emerging threats against the press from financial and political powers. \nEvery year\, Project Censored publishes its State of the Free Press\, which takes the pulse of the media and shares the 25 most important but underreported stories of the past year. In STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2025 (The Censored Press & Seven Stories Press\, December 3\, 2024\, paperback)\, editors Mickey Huff\, Shealeigh Voitl\, and Andy Lee Roth look back on a year in which significant news stories lost out to coverage of celebrities and non-events. Tragically\, 2024 also stands out as the year that the corporate media failed to adequately cover Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and the threat it poses to the whole world. With their gaze trained elsewhere\, the powerful got a pass from the very institution that should hold them to account. \nState of the Free Press 2025 comes at a time when trust in the media is at an all-time low. A 2024 Pew Research Poll found that a remarkable 73 percent of adult Americans believe a free press is either extremely or very important to the well-being of society—though only a third of those polled believe that US media are completely free to report news. Half of those surveyed believe that US news organizations are influenced a great deal by corporate/financial or government/political interests. Reporters Without Borders gave the US a score of 66.59 out of a possible 100 points in their 2024 World Press Freedom Index—a drop of nearly five points from 2023. Last year\, the organization labeled US press freedom “satisfactory;” in 2024\, they called it “problematic.” \nMICKEY HUFF is director of Project Censored and president of the Media Freedom Foundation. To date\, he has coedited sixteen volumes of Project Censored’s annual book and contributed numerous chapters to these works dating back to 2008. He is coauthor with Nolan Higdon of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) [City Lights Books\, 2019]; and Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication\, Conflict Management\, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge\, 2022). He has taught social science\, history\, and journalism at Diablo Valley College since 2000. In 2019\, Huff received the Beverly Kees Educator Award as part of the James Madison Freedom of Information Award from the Society for Professional Journalists\, Northern California. He is also the executive producer and host of The Project Censored Show\, the weekly syndicated public affairs program that airs on more than 50 stations around the U.S. and originates from KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley\, CA. Along with his work with Project Censored\, Huff is the new Distinguished Director of the Park Center of Independent Media at Ithaca College and Professor of Journalism at the college’s Roy H. Park School of Communication
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/state-of-the-free-press-mickey-huff/
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:20250330T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T163000
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SUMMARY:"In My Boots" - Amanda K. Jaros
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail with local author Amanda K. Jaros.  \nAbout the Book: When Amanda K. Jaros learns about the 2\,160-mile Appalachian Trail after college\, she walks away from a sheltered life dominated by an angry and volatile father and does something unexpected: spends six months backpacking. Alone. She expects to pass the time in the solitary and peaceful wilderness\, reflecting on her life’s direction. Instead\, she finds herself part of a community ripe with stinky socks\, buckets of ice cream\, and trail magic. What matters on the trail is not a hiker’s past or parents\, her fears or failures\, but rather\, what matters is the connections we make with each other. \nIn My Boots recounts a challenging physical journey following the trail over the windy balds of the South\, through snowstorms in the Smoky Mountain National Park\, and above the tree line to the alpine zones of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The journey is also emotionally transformative as this twenty-three-year-old leaves behind the compliant and scared girl she once was. With each step away from her damaged childhood\, each new friend\, each stop in another rural trail town\, she comes to understand that to succeed on the trail\, and in life\, it turns out\, the path she walks must be her own. \nAbout the Author: Amanda K. Jaros is the editor of Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology and author of 100 Things to Do in Ithaca Before You Die. Her essays on nature and family have appeared in Flyway\, Appalachia\, Terrain.org\, Stone Canoe\, and elsewhere. When not writing\, she can be found on a trail somewhere\, and has hiked the Inca Trail in Peru\, several trails in Australia\, and is currently working toward completing hikes of the 46 High Peaks in the Adirondacks. She lives in Ithaca\, New York\, with her husband and son\, where she recently took up kayaking and serves her community as a county legislator. Learn more at amandakjaros.com and Instagram @amandajaroschampion.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/in-my-boots-amanda-k-jaros/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T140000
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SUMMARY:Drag Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:Parents and kiddos – our queens Ms. Cordata and Ms. Chardonay are back for Drag Story Hour! Sit in our beautiful butterfly room and enjoy a reading from two of Ithaca’s very best storytellers.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/drag-story-hour-2/
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:20250329T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T170000
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SUMMARY:Faerie Market!
DESCRIPTION:Happy Faerie Fest\, Ithaca! Join us for a day of crafts\, festivities\, and goods from your favorite local makers! \nWith: Julian Plum Illustration\, The Mushroom Circle\, Snail Boat Studio\, Mycelia Herbals\, Guppy Moss\, Priscilla Dahl Pottery\, Pam’s Arts and Crafts\, Fleece & Thank Ewe Fiber Worx\, John Vorstadt Ceramics\, Heath & Hollow\, Viva Acres\, Lunaria\, The Grey  Moon\, Kosha Studio\, Gorges Wire Design\, & Sheepy Hollow.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/faerie-market/
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:20250328T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T193000
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SUMMARY:“Baking with Baddies” Zine Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Via Carpenter’s zine – Baking with Baddies: How to Succeed in Business\, from a Multidimensional Cookie Creative. There’ll be cookies\, of course! \nAbout the Author: Via Carpenter is an activist\, baker\, public speaker\, entrepreneur\, and artist. She founded her company\, Via’s Cookies\, from the ground up in college and has grown it into a smooth Ithaca NY based operation that gives to struggling university students across the U.S. She stresses honoring your passions\, fighting for the collective\, and taking advantage of life’s pleasures- such as cookies and dismantling capitalism. \nAbout the Zine:  \nFor bakers\, business owners\, and budding entrepreneurs\, this zine gives you a step-by-step guide to small business success. Based on the author’s experience starting her own cookie company and giving back to her community\, this zine is full of sound advice that can be applied to all kinds of small business and start-up situations. From refining your mission to networking\, getting tax help to dealing with burnout and discrimination\, this zine is jam-packed with tools\, examples\, suggestions\, and strategies for building a true-to-you business that thrives.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/baking-with-baddies-zine-launch-party/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T143000
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SUMMARY:The Octogenarian Tour - Ketu Oladuwa
DESCRIPTION:The OctoGenarian Tour: Celebrating Poetry that Liberates Community-Building Dialogue.  \nJoin us for a conversation with Dr. Nia Nunn\, Lushima Lumumba\, and Ketu Oladuwa. \nFrom Ketu Oladuwa: \n“Join the celebration of 80 cycles around the sun by getting back to our human rootz with poetry\, music\, and engagement with artists and their communities. \nPoetry is more than words on a page; it’s a catalyst for transformation\, a bridge between personal healing and collective liberation. I’m Omowalé-Kétu Oladuwa\, a Poet\, cultural worker\, and lifelong learner. My OctoGenarian Tour celebrates Connection\, employing poetry\, storytelling\, and communal gathering.  \nEmerging from a journey of survival\, resistance\, and self-discovery—including five years on death row for a murder I did not commit—I found liberation through poetry in death’s house. My work testifies to the resilience of the hueman spirit\, and the power of art to heal and lift consciousness to face our inhibiting traumas\, and confront the institutions that threaten to erase us.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-octogenarian-tour-ketu-oladuwa/
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:20250304T170000
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SUMMARY:"The Shah of Texas" - Charlie Green
DESCRIPTION:Join Charlie Green as he launches his first novel! The Shah of Texas is a broad political satire of the Iraq War\, the Abu Ghraib scandal\, American propaganda\, and even novels. Imagine George Orwell’s 1984 and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove mashed together\, with a little bit of Airplane! and Jonathan Swift. \nAbout the Author: Charlie Green is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. His collection of poems\, Feral Ornamentals\, was published in 2021\, and his writing has appeared in Image\, The Southeast Review\, and other venues. \nAlex Gilvarry is the author of the novels From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant and Eastman Was Here. He is a visiting professor at Cornell University.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-shah-of-texas-charlie-green/
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:20250228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T190000
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Garcia & Matthew Morris – A Reading and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Buffalo Street Books is excited to host Benjamin Garcia and Matthew Morris for a reading from their books Thrown in the Throat and The Tilling.  \nAbout the Books: \nWith language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous\, Thrown in the Throat  shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. “Sometimes even a diamond was once alive” writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says “has deadly superpowers.” And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers\, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex\, unabashed\, and needed as survival. Garcia’s debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive. \n“The tragic mulatto\,” wrote the African American poet Sterling Allen Brown in a 1933 meditation on stereotype\, “is a victim of a divided inheritance”: pulled this way and that\, belonging nowhere. In 10 lyric essays shifting keys from Virginia\, where he grew up\, to Tucson\, his first home as a young man\, Matthew Morris sounds the depths of that embodied cliché: its fracturing simplifications\, its (partial\, mixed) truths. The light-skinned son of an African American father and a white mother\, he asks after the skin-housed present by way of the rooted past\, considering his late grandmother\, a painter whose grandparents left Due West\, South Carolina for Evanston\, Illinois in the decades before her birth; the twice-made film Imitation of Life\, which in its first iteration starred the light-skinned actor Fredi Washington; and the quiet gradations of color in an untitled Rothko print. Ever-searching\, The Tilling is an excavation of identity and a reflection on the beginnings of life and love—a (sometimes soft\, others chippy) biracial coming of age. The Tilling was chosen for the Seneca Review Books’ 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. \nAbout the Authors: \nBenjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems\, Thrown in the Throat\, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow\, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place\, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets 2018\, Crazyhorse\, Kenyon Review\, The Missouri Review\, and New England Review. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York. \nSon of an African American father and a white mother\, Matthew Morris writes through questions of race\, identity\, family history\, and love. His nonfiction has been published in Seneca Review\, Fourth Genre via the Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize\, and Mid-American Review through the AWP Intro Journals Project\, and he has received a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His essay “Tidal Wave\,” published in apt\, was cited as “notable” in Best American Essays 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona MFA program and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Missouri –Columbia.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/benjamin-garcia-matthew-morris-a-reading-and-conversation/
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:Red Ear Marketing Open Hours @ BSB
DESCRIPTION:Come speak with Lincoln Weinstock of Red Ear Marketing – Tuesdays at 3 PM at Buffalo Street Books.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/red-ear-marketing-open-hours-bsb/2025-02-25/
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:20250223T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T160000
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SUMMARY:So You Want To Write A...
DESCRIPTION:Join Buffalo Street Books for a writing workshop with incredible local author\, Elisabeth Nonas! \nNo matter where you are with your project—whether it’s a novel\, short story\, screenplay\, or poetry collection—this practical workshop will help you map the path to completion of the ideas that keep you up at night. \nWe will discuss craft\, theme\, process\, deadlines\, then complete exercises designed to help you determine next steps toward your writing goals. \nGeneral registration is $35\, workbook included. \nTeachers – registration is $25 for Ithaca Loves Teachers week.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/so-you-want-to-write-a/
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:20250220T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T170000
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CREATED:20250210T054056Z
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SUMMARY:Let's Read & Discuss Climate @ BSB
DESCRIPTION:Talk with others in our community about climate change\, seen through contemporary fiction and non-fiction books. \nAbout the Books:  \nThe Water Knife\, a futuristic thriller by Paolo Bacigalupi about criminality in water distribution in a hot and dry Southwest meets A Thirsty Land by Seamus Mc- Graw\, a true account of conflicts over water rights in Texas that pit communities against each other. \nIn Water Wars\, Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming\, mining\, and aquafarming as her lens\, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world’s poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/lets-read-discuss-climate-bsb/
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:20250219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
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CREATED:20250213T191902Z
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SUMMARY:Game Night at BSB!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our February game night! Escape the cold\, warm up with us\, and test out some of the games we sell in store. Let us know if you’re coming and register here 🙂
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/game-night-at-bsb/
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:20250216T140000
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SUMMARY:Denice Peter Karamardian - ODAR Trilogy Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join BSB for a reading and conversation with local author\, Denice Peter Karamardian on her compelling three part series! \nAbout the Books: ODAR (meaning “other” in Armenian) is a three part trilogy that “offers a searing portrait of the immigrant experience\, examines the sense of belonging\, identity\, and heritage that is inherent in every human being…is a thought-provoking work with sharp insights that historical fiction fans will love.” says Lily Andrews for Reader Views. Based on the true story of a local family’s journey to and life in Ithaca\, New York that spans decades and generations. \nAbout the Author: Denice Peter Karamardian owns and operates a regional publication called Finger Lakes Libations for visitors and is at work on several more books. She is retired from a rich tapestry of overlapping careers spanning forty plus years that included instructing voice\, the host/producer of a radio concert broadcast series (called Crossing Borders Live)\, fifty years of music and theater performance\, and freelance columnist and reviewer. She also operated a bed and breakfast for two decades and still lives here\, in her hometown of Ithaca\, New York.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/denice-peter-karamardian-odar-trilogy-reading/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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SUMMARY:Adam Gellings & Nathan Lipps - Poetry Reading & Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Poets Adam Gellings and Nathan Lipps will join us for a reading\, followed by a conversation with Suzanne Richardson. \nAdam J. Gellings is a poet & instructor from Columbus\, Ohio. He received his MFA from Ashland University & his PhD from the State University of New York at Binghamton\, where he was the recipient of a fellowship from the Marion Clayton Link Endowment. His poems have appeared in numerous journals & magazines including the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day\, Copper Nickel\, Salamander\, Southern Humanities Review\, Willow Springs & elsewhere. His debut poetry collection Little Palace was released in fall 2022 by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. \nIn his debut poetry collection Little Palace\, Adam Gellings gives readers a perfect example of that often-repeated but rarely achieved instruction: “show\, don’t tell.” These sophisticated poems wander through the busy streets of Paris\, past quiet courtyards full of flowers\, into a kitchen that smells of fresh-baked bread. This metropolitan yet nostalgic collection brings the reader into new places and experiences while reminding them of familiar truths about human connection\, the fugitive feeling of travel\, and the universality of art. \nNathan Lipps is the author of Built Around the Fire and the chapbook the body as passage. Born and raised along the rural coast of western Michigan\, he currently lives in Ohio and works as an Assistant Professor at Central State University. His work has been published in the Best New Poets\, Colorado Review\, Cleaver\, EcoTheo Review\, North American Review\, TYPO\, and elsewhere. Nathan is the recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship\, an Excellence award in Research (Binghamton University)\, and a Poetry Fellowship (WSU) and was a Suzzanne Wilson Artist-in-Resident (GAAC). \nHis book Built Around the Fire delves into notions of place\, the enveloping wonder and plight of our environment\, and the complexities of rural culture: an examination of hierarchies\, conservatism\, generational religion\, and the perpetuation of patriarchal norms. Such concepts are juxtaposed with a personal narrative: the rise and failure of a relationship\, the deafening silence that arrives within any new vacancy\, and the eventual need to learn to adapt in order to grow. These two themes—the notion of a midwestern place and its ideologies\, and the notion of a failed relationship— work in tandem to speak for a shared struggle. The small family farm is dying out and the personal relationship dies right alongside it. What remains is a chance at rebirth\, change\, a looking outward\, finally\, as much as a looking inward. Though there is brokenness\, and pain\, there is also hope.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/adam-gellings-nathan-lipps-poetry-reading-conversation/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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SUMMARY:Adam Gellings & Nathan Lipps - Poetry Reading and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Poets Adam Gellings and Nathan Lipps will be at Buffalo Street Books for a reading\, followed by a conversation with Suzanne Richardson.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/adam-gellings-nathan-lipps-poetry-reading-and-conversation/
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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