Private event in the Giovanni room. To plan your event, complete our online form HERE (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…)
Private event in the Giovanni room. To plan your event, complete our online form HERE (more…)
Private event in the Barry room. To plan your event, complete our online form HERE (more…)
Diasporic Influences in the Art of Lázaro Batista with Carol Rhodes-DysonA Conversation with Lázaro Batista, Carmen Torruella-Quander (Artist), and Willard Taylor (Travel Consultant)Lázaro Batista is a Cuban-born painter. “My work looks at how you get to a place and how you feel once you get there. It is a journey into how art allows you to share who you have (more…)
Join us to celebrate the ending of Hispanic heritage Month with a fun night of Cuban music at our Columbia location.The event is from 6pm to 10pm. If you come earlier you can eat downstairs and join us upstair at 6pm.Dinner and drinks available upstairs starting at 6pm. Complimentary dance lessons by Stephen Jackson from 6:30pm-7:30pmMusic (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 Helen (more…)
Private event in the Robeson room. To plan your event, complete our online form HERE (more…)
Join the American Friends Service Committee and Palestinian authors from Gaza to celebrate the publication of the new book anthology Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire. Hear from Asmaa Abumezied, Dorgham Abusalim, Jehad Abusalim, and Yousef Aljamal who contributed writings on imagining a liberated Palestinian future beyond blockade, occupation, and apartheid (more…)
Busboys and Poets Books Welcomes Emilio Cueto to the Nicolas Guillen room to discuss his book “Delivering Cuba through the Mail: Cuba’s Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes”In 1899, after Cuba had become separated from Spain and was under US occupation, the first set of Cuban stamps were printed in the US. Cuba was beginning (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by MeccamorphosisMecca Verdell is a Baltimore based poet and performer of Dewmore Baltimore. When she started her poetry career in 2016, Mecca won Brave New Voices, an international youth poetry slam. She’s also been a Radio show host for two Baltimore based radio stations, interviewing nationally and (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Jonathan B. Tucker (JBT)JBT is a writer, educator, performer, poet, curator, program coordinator, and DJ. Sharing his work at schools, theaters, and venues around the world, he has performed in Cape Town, Boston, London, New York City, Stockholm, Seattle, the Kennedy Center, and the South African (more…)