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The BABEL season ends with The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store author, jazz musician and screenwriter James McBride! Combining music and storytelling, McBride will reflect on the power of communities to rise above fear & hardship. Click the link in bio to get your tickets 🎟

Poem of the Week: TOUCHED by Molly Peacock ✨ justbuffalo.org/molly-peacock-… 📸: Candice Ferreira Poem of the Week is curated by R.D. Pohl

Molly Peacock, who was born and raised in Buffalo, returns here to read at the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection on April 9 at 6 pm, co-sponsored by Just Buffalo Literary Center and Talking Leaves Books. Here's a poem from her latest collection.

Join us for Game Poetry tomorrow at 4:30pm! Whether it’s Scrabble, Guess Who, Monopoly, or any other board game, this playful workshop centers around exploring different games for poetic inspiration. For youth 12-18. Click the link in bio to learn more and sign up 🔗✨

Teachers are Writers happens next week on April 10th at 6:30pm! Join us for a happy hour-style writing workshop for educators that meets every month at the JBWC. ⁠ ⁠ Click the link in bio for more information 🔗✍️

Meet us at the JBWC next week for a Fiction Writing Meetup with Ben Brindise and a BABEL Student Reading Group on upcoming BABEL author James McBride’s The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store with Kerry Reynolds! For youth 12-18. Click the link in bio to learn more and sign up 🔗✨

Poem of the Week: Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones by Hoa Nguyen ✨ justbuffalo.org/hoa-nguyen-202… Poem of the Week is curated by R.D. Pohl

EVENT NEWS "An Evening with James McBride" Wed., Apr. 30 Kleinhans Music Hall Just Buffalo Literary Center hosts author James McBride to talk about his novel "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store". For more info.: justbuffalo.org/events/babel-j… 🦬

Honored today to have the privilege of sharing one of the poems from Hoa Nguyen's A THOUSAND TIMES YOU LOSE YOUR TREASURE (Wave Books, 2021) as this week's Just Buffalo Literary Center Poem of the Week. Hoa will be reading at Fitz Books in Buffalo on April 17.

Open Hours is back next week! Open Hours provides a dedicated time and place for you to focus on your writing while enjoying the company of other writers in one of Buffalo’s most beautiful downtown locations. Click the link in bio to learn more 🔗✍️

April has been kind in some ways. It was a pleasure to give 3 sessions of Speak, Poet for the 2025 Challenge to Change conference (multiple local highschools) & hear Hy-Deia Elwadi give the keynote speech The day before, a stellar YA-led Fiction Meet Up at Just Buffalo Literary Center

Enjoy an evening where music meets meaning featuring a musical performance and discussion with Sabu Adeyola, Colter Harper, and Alex McArthur and moderated by Naomi Thompson. Click the link in bio for more information 🔗

Poem of the Week: A sonnet by David Hadbawnik ✨ justbuffalo.org/david-hadbawni… Poem of the Week is curated by R.D. Pohl

David Hadbawnik will join poets Hoa Nguyen, Dale Martin Smith, and Buffalo's own Aaron Lowinger in the first major group reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 17 at the new location of Fitz Books and Waffles on 1462 Main St. in Buffalo.

The BABEL season finale happens in two weeks! Experience an evening with The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store author James McBride. Click the link in bio to get your tickets 🎟✨ P.S. Season finale attendees are the first to know the line up for the new season! Any guesses? 👀

The JWBC is back next week with Prism and BABEL Student Reading Group! Come read and write with us 📚✍️✨ For youth 12-18. Click the link in bio to learn more and sign up 🔗✨

Poem of the Week: ORIGIN STORY by Steven Duong ✨ justbuffalo.org/steven-duong-2… Poem of the Week is curated by R.D. Pohl