PBS Books is a multi-platform initiative celebrating the love of reading. Through social and digital engagement and live coverage of important literary events across the country, PBS Books celebrates books and writers and works to foster a passion for reading among public media viewers and listeners.
Date: April 12, 2024
Time: 8 p.m. ET | 5 p.m. PT
Free Virtual Event
Shantell Martin’s work has entranced audiences around the world in its intuitive energy, skill and bravura. With her highly personalized language of characters, faces, creatures, and messages, Martin invites viewers to actively engage in the creative process. Using drawing as a physical stream-of-consciousness, her work is characterized by a unique freedom, expressed through the possibilities of her chosen ‘canvas’ – whether a piece of paper or textile, a sculptural surface, wall or screen.
Date: April 19, 2024
Time: 8 p.m. ET | 5 p.m. PT
Free Virtual Event
The 35th Contemporary American Authors Lecture features Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, former poet laureate of the United States, and professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard.
Date: April 24, 2024
Time: 8 p.m. ET | 5 p.m. PT
Free Virtual Event
Join the PBS Books Readers Club as we plumb the depths of Scott Alexander Howard’s debut novel, The Other Valley. Fans of the PBS series A Brief History Of The Future and books like Never Let Me Go and The Giver will enjoy this book about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future. The Other Valley tells the story of Odile, an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil.
As part of its Wright Conversations series, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents Nikki Giovanni, one of this country’s most widely read poets and one of America’s most renowned poets worldwide. Her poem, “Knoxville, Tennessee,” is arguably the single literary work most often associated with that city.
As part of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, this special program will showcase a curated selection of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s short films, followed by a conversation. Filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson will join remotely, and curator Julia Yezbick will interview her from the Michigan Theater’s stage.
PBS Books is thrilled to celebrate Poetry Month and Earth Month with Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laurette of the United States. National Director of PBS Books, Heather-Marie Montilla and Ada Limón discuss her recently published anthology You Are Here: Poetry In The Natural World, a collection of fifty poems that reflect on our relationship to the natural world by contemporary writers.
