Get ready to dance! 💃🕺 Join us for an unforgettable Latin Dance Night at Busboys and Poets in Columbia, MD, on Saturday, October 17th, from 7 PM–11 PM! Enjoy an evening filled with Latin rhythms, great music, dancing, and amazing vibes. Dance the night away with a special dance lesson by Shannon Ward, hosted by (more…)
Thao Ha, author of “Love Letters from the Dirty South” will be in Conversation with Paula Roark and Tino Dinh — the conversation will revolve around first love, Vietnamese Refugee Life, Incarceration, Loss, and the Long Road Back to a Love that Survived Across Space and Time. (more…)
Eatonville Food & Folklore Series: A Celebration of Zora Neale Hurston Special Guest: Gwen McKinney Join us for an evening at a DC classic – Eatonville Restaurant. Enjoy a curated southern-inspired menu. Limited seating available. Eatonville Food & Folklore Series continues with special guest, Gwen McKinney, Honoring Zora Neale Hurston and the Enduring Legacy of (more…)
The essential primer on colorism and how each of us has a role in dismantling skin tone bias. Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another societal ill hiding in racism’s shadow: colorism. Colorism is (more…)
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA’s use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou’s memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Angelique PalmerAngelique Palmer is a poetry slam doyen, a finalist in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam and a member of The Beltway Poetry Slam Team in 2017. The Creative Writing graduate from Florida State University now calls northern Virginia home. She’s penned more (more…)
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 6 PMBusboys and Poets, Brookland: 625 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC 20017 Join us for a screening of France’s Children, presented in partnership with Drop Site and followed by a Q&A with director Aida Alami, moderated by Ryan Grim. March 2017: five years after her brother Amine was killed by a (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Drew AndersonA science teacher turned teaching artist, poet turned parodist, and marathon runner turned motivational speaker, Drew Anderson is founder and co-host of Spit Dat (the longest-running open mic in DC) and co-creator of the critically-acclaimed stage production From Gumbo to Mumbo (nominated for the 2020 (more…)
Monthly Jazz Jam session led by DC based saxophonist Elijah Balbed!Clarice Presents’ Jazz Jams, in partnership with Busboys and Poets, brings D.C.-based saxophonist Elijah Jamal Balbed to perform and lead a community-wide jam! Elijah’s band will play a set starting at 7:30PM. Bring your instrument! After enjoying their set, you’ll have a chance to call (more…)
WEDNESDAY NIGHT OPEN MIC!! Come join us for our Open Mic! For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, and musicians. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by the D.O.P.E – CHARITY BLACKWELLCharity Blackwell (She/Hers) is a spoken word artist, host, emcee, and poetry specialist who has spent several years contributing to the arts scene in DC and across national platforms. She is a Trinity University graduate, where she received her B.A and M.A, for (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by E-babyEric “E-Baby” Smith began writing poetry in July 2000; since then, he’s opened for R&B artists Musiq Soul Child, Me’Shell N’degeOcello, & Lyfe Jennings to name a few. After joining Jus Wiggin Entertainment in 2002 [agent: Tracy Wiggs], his “1 Poet Poetical Tour” reached over 150 (more…)