A LITERARY CELEBRATION! GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (5/11 @ 7:30PM, NY)
Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025-6990

Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer Prize winner of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), Esmeralda Santiago (When I was Puerto Rican), and Kevin Brockmeier (The Illumination) discuss Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece. This event will include a performance of Judah Adashi’s Songs and Dances of Macondo with music by Quintet of the Americas and a reading by Sonia Manzano. $25

CALARTS MFA STUDENTS READ FROM THEIR WORK (5/13 @ 7:30PM, L.A.)
Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Students in the CalArts Master of Fine Arts writing program read from their work. Diana Arterian, Marco Di Domenico, Henry Hoke, Emily Kiernan, and Amanda Montei read. Free.

POETRY FESTIVAL: A CELEBRATION OF LITERARY JOURNALS (5/15 @ 1PM, WEST CALDWELL)
West Caldwell Public Library, 30 Clinton Road, West Caldwell, NJ 07006

In its eighth year, this showcase event displays journals, holds poetry readings, and makes editors available for questions about publication. Free.

LUNADA WRITING WORKSHOP (5/16 @ 6:30PM, SF)
Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th Street (at Bryant), San Francisco, CA 94110

“Coming Home, Making Home” is a writing workshop facilitated by Cathy Arellano, Andrea Serrano, and Michelle Otero, featured poets of the Lunada  Lunada ~ Literary Lounge & Open Mic SPRING SEASON FINALE: “Búrque to The Bay.”  From the Mission District, and Albuquerque New Mexico, the featured poets of the Lunada Spring Season Finale will offer a special writing workshop, open to the general public, to nurture a poetic exchange between writers from the Bay Area and the Southwest ~ Búrque to The Bay! $10-15 sliding scale; no one turned away for lack of funds.