Brookline Booksmith
2024-08-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline, MA, 024462908

Daniel Johnson, Partridge Boswell, and Ann Bookman
2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Grolier Poetry Book Store, 6 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Come out to the nation’s oldest poetry bookstore in Cambridge, MA for an inspired evening of poetry featuring three poets.

Amanda Uhle reads from "Destroy This House" at Harvard Book Store
2025-09-11 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Following Amanda’s reading from her powerful, hilarious, gripping memoir Destroy This House, I’ll join Amanda in conversation about the book. Please come out and support my good friend Amanda, buy her book, and join me for what promises to be an inspired evening at Harvard Book Store.
About the author:
Amanda Uhle is Executive Director and Publisher of McSweeney’s, known for its award-winning quarterly literary journal, humor website and eclectic book publishing program, along with The Believer and Illustoria, an art and storytelling magazine for readers ages 6 to 11. She is co-founder, with Dave Eggers, of The International Congress of Youth Voices and co-editor of the I, Witness series of first-person stories by youth activists, published by Norton for Young Readers. She’s the occasional host of the author interview radio program and podcast, Living Writers. For more than 11 years, Uhle was executive director of 826michigan, a nonprofit tutoring and writing center for school-aged students in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Ypsilanti. Uhle is deeply involved with numerous youth writing organizations, as documented in Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire, and serves on the board of Young Authors Greenhouse in Louisville, Kentucky and Three Part Harmony Farm in Brandywine, Maryland. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, Newsweek, ThinkProgress, The Boston Globe, Delacorte Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir, Destroy This House, is published by Simon & Schuster/Summit Books.

10/10 Performance with Dr. Ebele Okpokwasili-Johnson at Just Bookish
2025-10-10 18:45 - 20:00 | Just Bookish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA, United States
Join me and my wife Dr. Ebele Okpokwasili-Johnson as we perform a multimedia tribute to journalist James Foley on Friday, October 10th at 6:45 PM. Ebele and I will share original work from Shadow Act, including choral readings, song, photography, and video clips of James Foley’s war reporting. This is likely the last time we’ll be performing this piece in Boston, so we hope to see you there!

Reading with Regie Gibson and January Gil O'Neill at MassArt
2025-12-03 18:30 - 20:00 | MA
I’ll be reading at MassArt with poets January Gil O’Neill and Regie Gibson, who was recently named the inaugural Massachusetts Poet Laureate. We’ll also be discussing our respective work building literary communities during a discussion immediately following. Join us for an inspired evening of poetry and conversation.
