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Author Next Door Series | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


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    Jun 28, 2026
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us to nourish your mind and soul with stories of identity and healing from local authors illuminating new paths toward recoveryOn Sunday, June 28th at Busboys and Poets Hyattsville, join us for Author Next Door: Food for Your Mind and Soul, the next installment in our rotating DMV-wide celebration of community storytellers.This self-help and (more…)

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ON MINDFUL DEMOCRACY | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


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    Jul 1, 2026
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us to draw on mindfulness and modern wisdom to cultivate resilience, healthy engagement, and skillful presence in turbulent times as we approach the US’s 250 year anniversary250 years after the US Declaration of Independence, this incisive Declaration of Interdependence is a timely, tender, and transformative guide for citizens who care deeply about the world (more…)

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Author Talk & Book Signing | Rev. Dr. Sheila Harvey


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    Jul 2, 2026
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Now more than ever, we need messages of hope to unite us.This book calls upon readers to be hopeful, even amid despair. In a world filled with hopelessness, consider filling your hearts and minds with messages of hope. Now more than ever, we need messages of hope to unite us. This book calls upon readers (more…)

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Book Launch


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    Jul 7, 2026
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

What if elderhood could be the most meaningful, expansive and fun time of life? Psychedelics and the Counterculture of Aging describes how intentional use of psychedelics in older age can support profound healing, personal exploration, meaning making, spiritual deepening, joy, and resolution in the face of death. Part informational resource and part compendium of personal (more…)

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VENEZUELA IN CRISIS | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


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    Jul 8, 2026
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country (more…)

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CAPITAL LOVE: Writing Workshop | WWPH and Busboys and Poets Books


  • Jul 13, 2026
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us to celebrate love in all its enormity and engage in a writing workshop with WWPH editors and authors. Capital Love is the Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s new anthology of poetry and prose about power of love in these divided times. 55 writers are featured in 56 works that honor the diversity of human (more…)

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ENLIGHTENED BOTTOM LINE | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


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    Jul 20, 2026
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

What if business and investing could be rooted in the deepest values of the human spirit?In her best selling book, Enlightened Bottom Line, Jenna Nicholas explores the powerful intersection of spirituality, business, and investing—an intersection too often overlooked in a world driven by profit alone. Drawing on moving stories of entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders who are living out (more…)

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FIGHTING FOR A FOOTHOLD | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


  • Jul 26, 2026
    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us to learn how government and markets undermine Black middle-class suburbia Prince George’s County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Black middle-class residents in the United States. As such, it is well positioned to overcome White domination and anti-Black racism and (more…)

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Author Next Door: Booklovers and Book Lovers | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


  • Aug 9, 2026
    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us to celebrate books that make us believe in love with local authors bringing unforgettable characters and romance to life! On Sunday, August 9th at Busboys and Poets Hyattsville, join us for Author Next Door: Booklovers and Book Lovers, the next installment in our rotating celebration of community storytellers from across the DMV. This (more…)

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THE PEOPLE’S HISTORIAN | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


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    Aug 13, 2026
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us to learn more about progressive icon and thought leader Howard Zinn through the stories that shaped him as well as the USAA biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as (more…)

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DÈY w/ Edwidge Danticat | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation


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    Aug 27, 2026
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Celebrate one of Danticat’s most powerful and deeply affecting works yet, told with her signature “unfaltering voice and evocative beauty”From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught (more…)

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Bullsh!t without Borders Book Launch Event


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    Oct 15, 2026
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

RSVP HERE: https://luma.com/3jd25sj4October 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Come celebrate with a lively book event launching “Bullshit without Borders: Let’s Change the Way We Change the World” by Susan M. Davis; published by Ripples Media.About the book (available for e-book pre-sale now):For the next generation of changemakers who care too much to settle for just good (more…)