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SUMMARY:8/25: Poetry Event with Claire Weiner\, John Freeman\, & Richard Tillinghast
DESCRIPTION:8/25: Poetry Event with Claire Weiner\, John Freeman\, & Richard Tillinghast \nJoin us at Booksweet for a poetry reading event! We will have readings\, author Q&A\, and light refreshments! \nYour RSVP through Eventrbite helps us with planning. \nAbout For a Chance to Walk on Streets of Gold by Claire Weiner: \nFor a Chance to Walk on Streets of Gold is a personal history that weaves deftly across time\, place\, and generations. It moves from Poland and Russia where the poet’s grandparents were born and escaped persecution\, to Chicago and its suburbs\, where the poet grew up\, to Florida\, where her parents retired. Without sentimentality\, but with respect and tenderness\, these poems speak of a family’s vulnerabilities as well as joys. The reader experiences a deep sense of empathy for suffering and an equal ability to celebrate success. \nAbout Claire Weiner: \nClaire Weiner’s work has been published in After Hours Press\, Burningwood Literary Review\, Michigan Jewish History Society\, Peninsula Poets and others. She spent her non-writing career as a clinical social worker helping people make more sense of their life stories. She splits her time between Ann Arbor\, and Tucson grateful to be in both places. \nAbout Richard Tillinghast: \nNight Train to Memphis\, 2025\, is the most recent of Richard Tillinghast’s many books of poetry. He has also published five works of creative nonfiction including literary travel books on Istanbul and Ireland and a critical biography of the poet Robert Lowell\, with whom he studied writing at Harvard. Tillinghast has received a number of awards and honors\, including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Amy Lowell Trust\, the NEA\, the Irish Arts Council\, and the British Council. He has taught at Harvard\, the University of California at Berkeley\, Sewanee\, the college program at San Quentin Prison\, Trinity College Dublin\, and the University of Michigan\, where he is now an emeritus professor. His work has been published in The New Yorker\, Paris Review\, the Atlantic\, The New Republic\, Best American Poetry and elsewhere. A native of Memphis who has traveled widely and lived abroad\, including six years in Ireland\, Richard now makes his home in Hawaii and spends his summers in Sewanee\, Tennessee. \nAbout Cal Freeman: \nCal Freeman (he/him) is the author of the books Fight Songs (Eyewear 2017) and Poolside at the Dearborn Inn (R&R Press 2022). His writing has appeared in many journals including Atticus Review\, Image\, The Poetry Review\, Verse Daily\, Under a Warm Green Linden\, North American Review\, Panoply\, Oxford American\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, and Advanced Leisure. He is a recipient of the Devine Poetry Fellowship (judged by Terrance Hayes)\, winner of Passages North’s Neutrino Prize\, and a finalist for the River Styx International Poetry Prize. Born and raised in Detroit\, he teaches at Oakland University and serves as Writer-In-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Detroit. His chapbook of poems\, Yelping the Tegmine\, has just been released\, and his hybrid full-length collection\, The Weather of Our Names is due out this year from Cornerstone Press.
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LOCATION:Booksweet\, 1729 Plymouth Road\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48105\, United States
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SUMMARY:8/22: Social Justice Poetry Reading and Discussion at Booksweet
DESCRIPTION:8/22: Social Justice Poetry Reading and Disussion at Booksweet \nBooksweet is thriled to welcome authors Sunu P. Chandy\, Minal Hajratwala\, Dr. LeConté Dill\, & Isabella Morena to read from their works and discuss their writing in celebration of the launch of Sunu P. Chandy’s My Dear Comrades. We will also have audience Q&A\, book signings\, and light refreshments! \nYour RSVP through Eventbrite helps us with planning. \nAbout the Book \nIn this poetry collection\, Sunu P. Chandy includes stories about her experiences as a woman\, civil rights attorney\, parent\, partner\, daughter of South Asian immigrants\, and member of the LGBTQ community. These poems cover themes ranging from immigration\, social justice activism\, friendship loss\, fertility challenges\, adoption\, caregiving\, and life during a pandemic. Sunu’s poems provide some resolve\, some peace\, some community\, amidst the competing notions of how we are expected to be in the world\, especially when facing a range of barriers. Sunu’s poems provide company for many who may be experiencing isolation through any one of these experiences and remind us that we are not\, in fact\, going it alone. Whether the experience is being disregarded as a woman of color attorney\, being rejected for being queer\, losing a most treasured friendship\, doubting one’s romantic partner or any other form of heartbreak\, Sunu’s poems highlight the human requirement of continually starting anew. These poems remind us that we can\, and we will\, rebuild. \nAbout the Authors \nSunu P. Chandy (she/her) is a social justice activist including through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney. She’s the daughter of immigrants from Kerala\, India\, a queer woman of color\, and lives in Washington\, D.C. with her family. Her award-winning collection of poems\, My Dear Comrades\, was published by Regal House. Sunu’s creative work can also be found in Asian American Literary Review\, Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, Poets on Adoption\, Split this Rock’s online social justice database\, The Quarry\, and in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets\, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. Sunu is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward. Sunu has worked for many years as a civil rights attorney\, including as a litigator with EEOC for 15 years. Sunu was also the Legal Director of the National Women’s Law Center for six years until August 2023. Sunu earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies/Women’s Studies from Earlham College\, her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law and her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Queens College/The City University of New York in 2013. Sunu is on the board of the Transgender Law Center\, and was included as one the Washington Blade’s Queer Women of Washington and one of Go Magazine’s 100 Women We Love. Sunu is delighted to celebrate her collection of poetry\, My Dear Comrades\, alongside the book’s fabulous cover artist\, Ragni Agarwal. \nMinal Hajratwala (they/she) founded the Unicorn Authors Club to guide authors of color (and allies who really mean it!) to finish books. She is currently at work on a book about creative practice\, The Chakra Playbook: For Artists\, Creatives\, and People with Spines\, under contract with Hachette (Spring 2026). Her first book\, Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents\, was called “incomparable” by Alice Walker and “searingly honest” by the Washington Post. It won a Pen USA Award\, an Asian American Writers Workshop Award\, a Lambda Literary Award\, and a California Book Award. Minal is the author of poetry collection\, Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment\, and a travel guidebook\, Moon Fiji. As a journalist\, they were an editor-at-large at Zócalo Public Square\, ran the Sunday Perspective section of the San Jose Mercury News\, and was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University. In 2010-11 she was a Fulbright senior fellow in Mumbai\, where she edited a groundbreaking anthology\, Out! Stories from the New Queer India. She is board vice chair of the Hedgebrook residency for women+ writers. www.unicornauthors.club \nDr. LeConté Dill was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles\, California. She is a poet\, playwright\, educator\, and scholar in and out of classroom and community spaces. She holds degrees from Spelman College\, UCLA\, and UC Berkeley\, was a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop Fellow and a Hurston/Wright Writers Workshop Fellow and has participated in VONA Voices and Cave Canem writing workshops. Currently\, she is the Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. She is also a Certified Mindfulness Instructor. In Dr. Dill’s art\, research\, and activism\, she listens to and shows up for urban Black girls\, in particular\, and works to rigorously document their experiences and strategies of safety\, resilience\, resistance\, and wellness. Her work is critically informed by years of working in partnership with youth and community organizers\, policy advocates\, and health educators at community-based organizations and public health departments across the U.S. and South Africa. Her work has been published in a diverse array of spaces\, such as Poetry Magazine\, Mom Egg Review\, Journal of Poetry Therapy\, the Du Bois Review\, and The Feminist Wire. \nIsabella Moreno (Nonfiction) is a Nuyorican proudly hailing from the Bronx; writing\, gardening and blossoming in Cleveland\, Ohio. Her personal writing explores\, and gives testament to\, memories\, recollections and anecdotes influenced by her multi-generational (multi-hyphenated) familial experiences with an ever-changing historical background. She has 30 years of experience in education from K-12 classrooms to non-profit and college administration. For 15+ years she has created workshops for creatives of color. She is the founder of Illuminating Our Voices. She believes joy can always be found in collective spaces of shared creation. Her two adult children add the magical rhythm to her heart.
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LOCATION:Booksweet\, 1729 Plymouth Road\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48105\, United States
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SUMMARY:8/22: Children's Author Event - Gail Kuhnlein
DESCRIPTION:8/22: Children’s Author Event with Gail Kuhnlein \nGail Kuhnlein\, author of How Happy Is a Lark? and Into the Thicket will be joining us at Booksweet to read a selection from her books and discuss\, then take questions. She will be joined by Into The Thicket’s illustrator John Megahan. \nYour RSVP through Eventbrite helps us with planning! \nAbout the Books \nThe picture book\, How Happy Is a Lark? turns similes upside-down\, finally answering in funny and delightful ways\, timeless questions such as “how wise is an owl?” and “how clever is a fox?” \nThis introduction for young children (ages 3-6) to a fun aspect of language features joyful artwork that will make you smile. How fast is a jackrabbit? A jackrabbit beats a shooting star in a race across the Milky Way! \nThe newest book\, Into The Thicket is based on a real-life adventure when the author’s (then) young son found an injured baby rabbit in the backyard.The fictionalized story follows the journey of young Patrick and the rabbit one springtime in Michigan. The book beautifully portrays an appreciation for wildlife. The universal emotions of compassion\, and loving and letting go are central elements of the boy’s experience.
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LOCATION:Booksweet\, 1729 Plymouth Road\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48105\, United States
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SUMMARY:8/20: Young Adult Book Club
DESCRIPTION:8/20: Young Adult Book Club \nJoin us at Booksweet for a Summer Reading Program event! Bring your map and receive a Port Bookclub Stamp. Read our young adult book selection ahead of time and be ready to join in a reader-led discussion about the book. \nFor our August 20 Middle Grade Book Club from 3pm – 4pm we’ll be reading Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. \nYour RSVP through Eventbrite helps us plan for the event! \nAbout the Book \nFilled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system\, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic. \nAfter her mother dies in an accident\, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. \nA flying demon feeding on human energies. \nA secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. \nAnd a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. \nThe mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died\, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report\, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth\, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. \nShe recruits Nick\, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group\, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming\, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight. \nLegendborn is the first book in The Legendborn Cycle. \nAbout Booksweet Book Clubs \nBooksweet is located in The Courtyard Shops\, filled with AMAZING dining options. We will provide water and light refreshments (including nut-free and gluten-free options). Snacks and drinks are totally welcome. \nWe hope to see you there!
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