Please join us Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 for What Happens: A Festival of Poets' Theater (Year 2!) March 1 at 8pm: Sonia Farmer, Morgan Grambo, Andy King, Dakota Parobek, Nora Claire Miller, Stephen Ira, Kiley Reid, Nicole Gabrione, Jorrell Watkins (Writer and Director) March 2 at 7pm: Tracie Morris, Eric Marlin, Bernadette Mayer, Erica Vannon & Bianca Rae Messenger

Christopher Castellani will read from his new novel, Leading Men.  “With echoes of Tender is the Night and The Sun Also Rises, Leading Men tells the extraordinary love story of Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo. Castellani elegantly weaves together Merlo's final days with memories of a dramatic (and delicious) Italian summer in 1953 that changes his world forever. Throw in an aging Swedish actress, Truman Capote, Italian cinema and the staging (and script!) of a lost Williams play and you have...

Please join us for a lecture by Christopher Castellani in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 1st Christopher Castellani is the author of A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love and a book on writing, The Art of Perspective. He is the son of Italian immigrants, a Guggenheim fellow, and the artistic director of Grub Street writing center. He lives in Boston.

Writers’ Workshop graduate Mark Mayer will read from The Aerialists. "A dazzling collection filled with characters who evoke, in their flawed humanity, the strange, sorrowful and ever shimmering world of the circus. Mayer's bittersweet stories are playful, haunting and wonderfully inventive. Read them and be transported." —Mona Awad Mark Mayer’s stories have appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Colorado Review, and Mid-American Review, and a story from The Aerialists is featured in American Short...