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Jazz Poetry 2026: Poet-Vocalist Erika Denae J’s “In the Mood For” (Book Launch & Album Teaser)
Thu., May 21, 7-9 p.m. 2026
City of Asylum @ Alphabet City 40 W. North Ave, Pittsburgh North Side
Jazz Poetry 2026: Spanish Pianist Marta Sánchez’s “For the Space You Left” & Poems by City of Asylum Writers-in-Residence
Thu., May 14, 7-9 p.m. 2026
Jazz Poetry 2026: The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
Thu., May 7, 7-9 p.m. 2026
Story Club PGH Presents: Story Slam! (Unraveled)
Tue., May 5, 7-8:30 p.m. 2026
World Literature: Amara Lakhous’s “The Fertility of Evil” (Algeria/Italy)
Sun., April 19, 3-4 p.m. 2026
Queer Iranian Shorts Program
Tue., April 14, 7-9 p.m. 2026
Thursday Night Jazz: John Shannon Trio’s “A Day in Tarifa” (Vinyl Release)
Thu., April 9, 7-8:30 p.m. 2026
Story Club PGH Presents: Story Slam! (Unfinished Business)
Tue., Dec. 2, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
Thursday Night Jazz: Thomas Wendt’s Jazz at the Philharmonic (Norman Granz, the Jazz Jam Session & the Struggle for Equality)
Thu., Nov. 20, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
On Topic: George Packer’s “The Emergency” (Imperial Collapse & Humanity)
Mon., Nov. 17, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
Thursday Night Jazz: Dwayne Dolphin Fo’tet’s “Let the Music Play” (Album Launch)
Thu., Nov. 13, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
Reel Q Presents: An International Queer Film Screening
Tue., Nov. 11, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
World Literature: Carlos Manuel Àlvarez’s “False War” (with Translator Natasha Wimmer)
Sun., Nov. 9, 3-4 p.m. 2025
Thursday Night Jazz: Paul Thompson Quintet’s Tribute to Pat Metheny
Thu., Nov. 6, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
Story Club PGH Presents: Story Slam! (Home)
Tue., Nov. 4, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
Writer-in-Residence: Anouar Rahmani’s “The End of the Third World” (Book Preview)
Sun., Nov. 2, 3:30-5 p.m. 2025
Thursday Night Jazz: Lou Stellute Quartet’s Jazz Standards (plus Spontaneous, Beautiful & Funky Improvisations)
Thu., Oct. 30, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
Drue Heinz Literature Prize Presents: 45th Anniversary Reading with Prizewinners Bill Gaythwaite, Caroline Kim & Kelly Sather
Tue., Oct. 28, 7-8 p.m. 2025
Thursday Night Jazz: Randy Napoleon, Jeff Pedraz & Thomas Wendt’s Celebration of Detroit, Philly & Pittsburgh Jazz
Thu., Oct. 23, 7-8 p.m. 2025
PGHwrites: Andrew Swensen & Yan Pang’s “Shelter” (Musical Theatre Showcase)
Wed., Oct. 22, 7-8 p.m. 2025
Writer-in-Residence: Olena Boryshpolets’s “New Calypso” with Christopher Rivas & Lesya Verba (Book Launch)
Tue., Oct. 21, 7-8 p.m. 2025
Indigenous Language Acts with Erin Marie Lynch, Julian Talamantez Brolaski & Layli Long Soldier
Sun., Oct. 19, 1-2 p.m. 2025
LitFest 2025: Bringing Chinese Literature to America with Editor Han Zhang (Riverhead Books) & Translator Jeremy Tiang
Sun., Oct. 19, 2:30-3:30 p.m. 2025
LitFest 2025: Poetry, Comedy & Storytelling in American Sign Language with NuNu Davis & Lisa McBee
Sun., Oct. 19, 4:30-6 p.m. 2025
LitFest 2025: Love & Family, India & America, Tradition & Modernity with Booker Prize Winner Kiran Desai (“The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”)
Sun., Oct. 19, 7-8 p.m. 2025
OCT 18: LitFest 2025: Books From My Country You Should Know with Olena Boryshpolets (Ukraine), Bertony Louis (Haiti), Anouar Rahmani (Algeria) & Mukhtar Shehata (Egypt)
Sat., Oct. 18, 2:30-3:30 p.m. 2025
Translation Slam with Author Volodymyr Rafeyenko & Translators Mark Andryczyk & Dominique Hoffman
Sat., Oct. 18, 4:30-6 p.m. 2025
LitFest 2025: Bringing the Classics to Today with MacArthur Genius Anne Carson
Sat., Oct. 18, 7-9 p.m. 2025
Thursday Night Jazz: Roger Humphries + The RH Factor
Thu., Oct. 16, 7-8:30 p.m. 2025
Creative Hive
Tue., Sept. 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 2025
