Join chef, cookbook author and host Dustin Harder for a book signing of his new book, The Simply Vegan Cookbook Thursday February 8th from 6:30-8pm at the Busboys and Poets 5th and K location. Dustin has traveled the world filming his series The Vegan Roadie, the plant based version of Diners, Drive Ins and Dives promoting (more…)

Please join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome local author Teodrose Fikre for a conversation about race and identity in America.Teodrose Fikre is the founder and editor of the Ghion Journal. A first generation immigrant from Ethiopia. Teodrose Fikre is a visionary author who is passionate about justice for all irrespective of our differences. Teodorse (more…)

Please join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome journalist Harmon Leon and political cartoonist Ted Rall to Takoma.Legendary infiltration journalist HARMON LEON is at it again, this time teaming up with ferocious political cartoonist TED RALL to answer the question most of America has been asking: “What the hell happened in 2016?” In their (more…)

Please join Busboys and Poets Books for an evening with Dr. Noliwe M. Rooks. Noliwe is the director of American studies at Cornell University and was for ten years the associate director of African American studies at Princeton University. A cultural critic whose work has appeared in TIME Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The (more…)

Join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome author Jean R. Freedman to discuss her recent biography, Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics. Reviewers have called the book “consummately researched and engagingly readable” and “a true miracle.” Peggy Seeger has been a leading voice in the British and American folk revivals since the 1950s. (more…)

Please join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome poet ELIZABETH ACEVEDO to 5th and K to read from her new book, Poet X. Elizabeth Acevedo was born and raised in New York City and her poetry is infused with Dominican bolero and her beloved city’s tough grit. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington (more…)

Please join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome author Natalie Hopkinson to 14th and V to present her new book A Mouth Is Always Muzzled. A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is a dazzling analysis of the insistent role of art in contemporary politics and life. In crafted, well-honed prose, Howard University professor and former editor of (more…)

Please join Busboys and Poets Books in collaboration with Crude Accountability to examine and discuss the role of art and the artist in oppressive regimes and the power of art as an instrument for contemporary advocacy. Batyr Berdyev is a victim of enforced disappearances in Turkmenistan. A former diplomat and then Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was (more…)

Please join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome author Howard Jones to discuss his book “My Lai: Vietnam, 1968 and the Descent into Darkness.”On the morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company entered the hamlet of My Lai in Vietnam. The Tet Offensive had occurred in the same (more…)