First Tuesday: John Basinger

Every first Tuesday of the month, Broad Street Books hosts a featured poet and an open mic. Come to March's First Tuesday this Tuesday, March 3rd.

The featured poet this month will be John Basinger. According to Broad Street's Brian Mitchard, "Best known for his performances of Milton's Paradise Lost, John is going to surprise us!"

What: John Basinger as featured poet, and open mic (everyone welcome to read, recite, perform)
When: March 3rd at 7:00pm
Where: Broad Street Books

Broad Street Books Event: Professor Kauanui Reads From "Hawaiian Blood"

Anthropology and American Studies Professor J. Kehaulani Kauanui will read from her book Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity.

Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity is a detailed scholarly account of how blood quantum politics has emerged as a colonial policy of the US government, a history of the contemporary legal definition of what it means to be “native Hawaiian” and how Kanaka Maoli (the Hawaiian people) contest that term, which is incommensurable with indigenous genealogical modes of reckoning identity and degrades Hawaiian sovereignty claims to land and nationhood.

Where: Broad Street Books
When: Tuesday, February 10th at 5:00 PM