BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CalDiscovery//caldiscovery//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH DESCRIPTION:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscover y.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fro m CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. SOURCE:https://caldiscovery.com/buffalo-ny/literary.ics X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-CALDESC:Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https://caldiscove ry.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains information fr om CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - buffalo-ny (literary) BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buffalo Art: All I ever wanted was a place - A Centennial Celebrat ion of Robert Creeley DTSTART:20260906T140000Z DTEND:20260906T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260905T062702Z UID:10045131-1788688800-1788717600@thebuffalohive.com CATEGORIES:arts,literary,music DESCRIPTION:On view May 21 through December 7\, 2026. A special installati on marking the centennial of poet Robert Creeley’s birth\, celebrating h is more than forty-year connection to the museum and thirty years living a nd teaching in Buffalo\, in partnership with UB’s Poetics Program\, UB A rt Galleries\, Just Buffalo Literary Center\, and Black Rock Arts. \n  \n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry Today symposium for The Buffalo Festival o f the Arts Today\, March 5\, 1965\, in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Audit orium. From left: David Posner (moderator)\, Robert Graves\, William D. Sn odgrass\, and Robert Creeley. Image courtesy of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum Archives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWest Corridor\, Knox Building\nCelebrated Amer ican poet Robert Creeley (1926–2005) had a connection to the Albright-Kn ox Art Gallery (now the Buffalo AKG Art Museum) that spanned more than fo rty years\, from speaking to artist collaborations. His first engagement with the museum was in March 1965\, when he took part in the Poetry Today symposium for The Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today. The sixteen-day eve nt attracted more than 300\,000 guests and received nationwide acclaim. Du ring the symposium\, Creeley stated\, “Whatever provokes in me this resp onse to the innate rhythm of a poem\, whatever it is\, one singly follows one’s own answer\,” expressing his deeply felt and responsive style. \ nThe poet collaborated with some of the most celebrated contemporary artis ts\, forming lasting relationships with them before the actual “work” took place. Artist Alex Katz\, a collaborator on Edges\, stated\, “Worki ng with Bob makes me feel bright.” In May 1972\, Marisol wrote a letter to Creeley after receiving the text for Presences: A Text for Marisol (197 6)\, “It is really amazing how you could do something so close to me fro m seeing me so few times.” Creeley mirrored Marisol’s sculptural proce ss in his prose\, creating what he called an “active complement.” \n “All I ever wanted was a place\,” Creeley writes\, in a 1988 collabora tion with artists Robert Therrien and Michel Butor. The poet arrived in Bu ffalo in 1966\, teaching at the University at Buffalo for more than thir ty years. He was the inspiration behind Just Buffalo Literary Center and went on to co-found UB’s Poetics Program. In his later years\, he was of ten called “the man in Black Rock.” On this centennial of his birth\, we celebrate the indelible mark Creeley made on the literary and artistic life of this place. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Creeley Centenary (2026)\n\nThi s year marks a century since Robert Creeley’s birth. On May 21 and 22\, join us in commemorating his life and work in Buffalo\, where he lived for more than thirty years\, in partnership with the University at Buffalo Po etics Program\, the University at Buffalo Art Galleries\, Just Buffalo Lit erary Center\, and Black Rock Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nHom e\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuffalo AKG Art Museum\n1285 Elmwood Avenue\nBuffalo\, New York 14222\nNow Open LAST-MODIFIED:20260905T062702Z LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, Buffalo\, NY\, United States URL:https://thebuffalohive.com/event/buffalo-art-all-i-ever-wanted-was-a-p lace-a-centennial-celebration-of-robert-creeley-3/2026-09-06/ X-SOURCE-NAME:PAST EVENTS: 2025 Summer Concert Guide for Buffalo & WNY! X-SOURCE-URL:https://thebuffalohive.com/2025-summer-concert-guide END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BABEL | Sigrid Nunez DTSTART:20261014T233000Z DTEND:20261015T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260730T062505Z UID:10474-1792006200-1792006200@kleinhansbuffalo.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Just Buffalo Literary Center presents\nBABEL featuring Sigrid Nunez\nWednesday\, October 14\, 2026\n7:30 pm\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m.\nAu thor Reception for Premium Access ticketholders starts at 6:30pm \nJoin Ju st Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Sig rid Nunez.\n \nSigrid Nunez is the author of nine novels\, including the c ritically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel\, The Friend\, which was listed on The New York Times “100 Best Books of the 21st Century\, ” and What Are You Going Through\, a novel about the surprising ways one person can help another through hardship and friendship\, especially towa rd the end of life. What Are You Going Through was recently adapted into a film by Pedro Almodóvar\, titled The Room Next Door\, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. Other books include The Vulnerables\; Sempre Sus an: A Memoir of Susan Sontag\; A Feather on the Breath of God\; and For Ro uenna among others. \nWith her sincere\, clever\, and witty voice\, Sigrid Nunez has won many honors and awards\, including the National Book Award\ , the Whiting Award\, a Berlin Prize Fellowship\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\ , and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Her work has been translated into thirty-f ive languages. In her honest and compelling talks\, she speaks to audience s about her craft and her path to a career in writing. LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T062505Z LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201 \, United States URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/sigrid-nunez/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Kleinhans Music Hall X-SOURCE-URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BABEL | Kaveh Akbar DTSTART:20261120T003000Z DTEND:20261120T023000Z DTSTAMP:20260730T062505Z UID:10476-1795116600-1795116600@kleinhansbuffalo.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Just Buffalo Literary Center presents\nBABEL featuring Kaveh A kbar\nThursday\, November 19\, 2026\n7:30 pm\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m.\nAut hor Reception for Premium Access ticketholders starts at 6:30pm \nJoin Jus t Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Kave h Akbar. \nKaveh Akbar is an acclaimed poet\, novelist\, and editor whose work grapples with questions of faith\, addiction\, belonging\, and the se arch for meaning. His highly anticipated debut novel\, Martyr!\, became an instant New York Times bestseller and was named a TIME Must-Read Book of the Year. Praised by literary luminaries including Tommy Orange\, Lauren G roff\, John Green\, and Roxane Gay\, Martyr! tells the story of Cyrus Sham s\, a newly sober son of Iranian immigrants navigating addiction\, grief\, and a family mystery that carries him from the battlefields of Iran to th e art galleries of Brooklyn. Electrifying\, funny\, and deeply humane\, th e novel heralds the arrival of a vital new voice in contemporary fiction. \nIn his talks\, Akbar brings the same searching intelligence\, vulnerabil ity\, and lyric precision that define his writing. He speaks powerfully on the subjects of creativity\, spirituality\, identity\, and recovery\, wea ving together personal narrative with broader cultural and historical cont ext. His  lecture and staged conversation offers audiences profound refle ctions on art as a tool for survival\, how language shapes belonging\, and the universal human desire for transcendence. \nBorn in Tehran and raised in the Midwest\, Akbar is the Roy J. Carver Professor of English at the U niversity of Iowa. LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T062505Z LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201 \, United States URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/kaveh-akbar/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Kleinhans Music Hall X-SOURCE-URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Pirate's Life: Lisa Briggs | National Geographic Live DTSTART:20270316T230000Z DTEND:20270317T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260730T062505Z UID:10446-1805223600-1805223600@kleinhansbuffalo.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Early Bird Season Subscriptions Now Available! Subscribe and save 15% for a limited time. Click the link or call the Box Office at (716 )885-5000 to reserve your tickets today. \nVIP tickets include complimenta ry beverages\, beer and wine along with light hors d’oeurves\, cheese\, and cracker plates\, and some sweets. \nPirates might be reduced to a Hall oween costume for some people\, but they are a year-round fascination for archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer Lisa Briggs. We go on assig nment with her to the Mediterranean Sea to explore how pirating shaped anc ient cities. We also meet the icons of the Golden Age of Piracy\, explore the “pirate code\,” and then follow Lisa to the wreck of the most famo us renegade\, Blackbeard. \nAbout Lisa Briggs:  \nLisa Briggs is an under water archaeologist\, archaeological scientist\, and documentary filmmaker . She is best known for her work excavating shipwrecks and conducting scie ntific analysis on artifacts recovered from some of the world’s most imp ortant underwater archaeological sites including Blackbeard’s flagship\, the Queen Anne’s Revenge\, the Bronze Age Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya s hipwrecks of Turkey\, the Hellenistic era Kyrenia ship of Cyprus\, the Cla ssical age Mazotos shipwreck\, Cyprus\, and the Renaissance period Gnalic shipwreck of Croatia. Her scientific research focuses on ancient biomolecu les recovered from shipwrecks\, including waterlogged grape seeds\, olive stones\, resins\, and the invisible residues trapped inside of ceramic jar s. Through her DNA analysis of shipwreck plant materials\, Briggs attempts to trace the domestication and trade of important crops species throughou t time. LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T062505Z LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201 \, United States URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/pirates/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Kleinhans Music Hall X-SOURCE-URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BABEL | Amor Towles DTSTART:20270318T233000Z DTEND:20270319T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260730T062505Z UID:10479-1805398200-1805398200@kleinhansbuffalo.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Just Buffalo Literary Center presents\nBABEL featuring Amor To wles\nThursday\, March 18\, 2027\n7:30 pm\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m.\nAuthor Reception for Premium Access ticketholders starts at 6:30pm \nJoin Just B uffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Amor To wles. \nBorn and raised in the Boston area\, Amor Towles graduated from Yale and received an MA in English from Stanford. After working as an inve stment professional for over twenty years he now devotes himself full tim e to writing. His novels Rules of Civility\, A Gentleman in Moscow\, and T he Lincoln Highway\, and his collection of shorter fiction Table for Two h ave all been New York Times bestsellers. His books have collectively sold more than eight million copies and been translated into more than forty la nguages. A Gentleman in Moscow has made numerous “Best of” book lists including President Barack Obama’s annual book recommendations and was r ecently adapted as a limited series starring Ewan McGregor. LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T062505Z LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201 \, United States URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/amor-towles/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Kleinhans Music Hall X-SOURCE-URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BABEL | Tayari Jones DTSTART:20270429T233000Z DTEND:20270430T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260730T062505Z UID:10481-1809027000-1809027000@kleinhansbuffalo.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:Just Buffalo Literary Center presents\nBABEL featuring Tayari Jones\nThursday\, April 29\, 2027\n7:30 pm\nDoors open at 6:30 p.m.\nAutho r Reception for Premium Access ticketholders starts at 6:30pm \nJoin Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Tayari Jones. \nOver the course of her award-winning career\, Tayari Jones’s n ovels and essays have explored the vagaries of birth and fate\, the bitter ness of injustice\, and the persistent power of love. From her debut\, Lea ving Atlanta\, to her latest novel\, the Oprah Book Club Selection and New York Times bestseller Kin\, Jones brings warmth and wisdom to themes of f amily\, friendship\, and what it means to be a girl and a woman in the Ame rican South. Hailed as “one of the most important voices of her generati on” by Essence and as “a bard of the modern South” by the Los Angele s Times\, her vivid characters\, trademark humor\, and gorgeous prose have won her acclaim from readers and critics alike. \nPrevious books include An American Marriage—which was also an Oprah’s Book Club Selection—S ilver Sparrow and The Unteling. \nJones is a graduate of Spelman College\, University of Iowa\, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. Wh ite Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candle r Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University. LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T062505Z LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle \, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201 \, United States URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/tayari-jones/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Kleinhans Music Hall X-SOURCE-URL:https://kleinhansbuffalo.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR