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April 2022

Wednesday
April 6
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm PT
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Statewide Policy Approaches to Sustaining and Strengthening Local and Ethnic Media

Digital Event
Saturday
April 9
11:00 am – 9:00 pm ET
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[VIRTUAL] Adoptee Literary Festival

Digital Event
Tuesday
April 12
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm ET
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Poetry and the Carceral State: Launching Christopher Soto’s Diaries of a Terrorist

Digital Event
Wednesday
April 13
12:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET

Ukrainian Poetry in Translation Reading

Digital Event
Wednesday
April 13
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm ET
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Industry 101: Writer → Screenwriter

Digital Event
Monday
April 18
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm ET
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The Magic City Poetry Festival: An Evening With Taylor Byas

Digital Event
Wednesday
April 20
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm ET

Your Options on Options

Digital Event
Thursday
April 21
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm ET
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Remembering Reinaldo Arenas and a Vigil for Detained Artists in Cuba

Father Duffy Square
Friday
April 22
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm ET
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A Citywide Poetic Celebration of Earth Day

Astoria Bookshop (Queens)
Saturday
April 23
11:00 am – 12:00 pm PT

PEN America: Fact v. Fiction: Journalism Confronts Disinformation

Ray Stark Family Theatre at USC
Wednesday
April 27
11:00 am – 12:15 pm ET
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[VIRTUAL] Freedom to Write Index 2021: Tracking Jailed Writers and Public Intellectuals Around the World

Digital Event
Saturday
April 30
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CT
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Independent Bookstore Day: A Conversation With Kalani Pickhart and Jennifer Croft

Magic City Books

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Academy Award winning actor and UN Ambassador to Peace Michael Douglas join us at #PENgala to present this year's PEN/Barbey #FreedomToWrite Award to Vladyslav Yesypenko. Tune in now: https://youtu.be/yImyr9NUWf4

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