National Poetry Month Celebration

Join the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP) at an event on Friday, April 25 to celebrate National Poetry Month.

For more about National Poetry Month, visit the Academy of American Poets website (opens in a new tab) .

You are invited to perform/read a poem in translation, your own translation of a poem, an original poem, or share a poetic work in another way.

Where: Binghamton University, Library North 2200
When: Friday, April 25; 6 pm

This event is open to all at Binghamton University and in the greater Binghamton area. Please share!

Contact: Erin Riddle, eriddle@binghamton.edu (opens in a new tab)

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The Binghamton Center for Writers is pleased to present the Distinguished Writers Series with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, which will include a reading and conversation with the novelist and nonfiction writer. The author of the novels Savage Tongues, Call Me Zebra, and Fra Keeler, Oloomi has received a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award and is the 2023-2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fiction Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. Born in Los Angeles, she spent her childhood in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Spain, and she speaks Farsi, Italian, and Spanish. Oloomi is the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Your $20.50 purchase includes:

-A copy of the book. ‘Willis Sharpe Kilmer: Thoroughbred Owner and Breeder’ by Bill Orzell

-Meet the author and book signing

-Invite to the Press Conference *If you would like only one book, but would like to bring a plus one to the event, please text 607.205.3223 with your name and plus one’s name.

Our morning will begin at 11:30am with a Press Conference announcing the induction of ‘Exterminator’ into the ‘Greater Binghamton Sports Hall of Fame,’ class of 2024, and the release of ‘Willis Sharpe Kilmer: Thoroughbred Owner and Breeder.’ Please join us for the press conference, a private reception with refreshments, and booking signing to follow.

Continue Celebrating with us!

4/25 – Screening of ‘Old Bones: The Story of Exterminator’ by WSKG filmmaker Brian Frey

4/29 – Induction Dinner – Greater Binghamton Sports Hall of Fame at Double Tree

5/4 – Kentucky Derby Viewing & Party at Kilmer Mansion

Mark your calendars for the first annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair on May 4 and 5, 2024 in Binghamton, co-hosted by PM Press and Riot Act Books.

In celebration of International Workers’ Day, the two-day fair will feature book/zine vendors, a warehouse sale, community organizations, two full days of panels, live music from the loading dock, and much more. For locals who fondly remember the old Penguin/Putnam book sale, we will have thousands of titles at an affordable price from mass market James Patterson to rare niche titles from independent publishers like us!

We’re still booking vendors & workshops, etc, so please reach out at upstateanarchistbookfair.com

Why an Upstate Anarchist Book Fair in Binghamton, NY?

The practical reason: PM Press bought a 17,000 square ft warehouse in Binghamton in 2021. We also purchased a used bookstore – Autumn Leaves – in Ithaca. Over the last year-and-a-half, we’ve filled the warehouse with racks on racks of literature (both PM Press and other other publishers). We also have a big parking lot, a developing event space, and connections to a local DIY community with the skills to put together a fun, productive, and thoughtful event.

The Southern Tier Actors Read (STAR) presents a staged reading of A.R. Gurney’s play, “The Wayside Motor Inn,” at the Phelps Mansion Museum.

The reading, directed by Judy McMahon, features five stories of ten strangers whose problematic lives all lead them to an old inn outside Boston. Each tale explores various ideas about life, love, and trust as told through the struggles the characters must face.

“Lively and Humorous” – The New Yorker

The play begins at 7:30pm on August 26th and27th and 3:00pm on the 28th. Tickets cost $15/person.

Date and Time

Friday Aug 26th- 730-pm $15.00 USDSaturday Aug 27th–730pm $15.00 USDSunday August 28th- 3pm $15.00 USD