The Guide

The one time you won't be shushed at the library - live stand-up comedy!

Join nationally-touring comedian Alex Just for a side-splitting show. He has brought his unique brand of humor to all 50 states and over a dozen countries internationally. His shows have been deemed newsworthy by ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, NPR, and the New Yorker. He has appeared on both A&E and The Travel Channel and is a two-time presenter at the SXSW Festival in Austin.

The show will be PG-13. Your Eventbrite ticket is an RSVP. This event is free and open to the public and will be seated first come, first serve. For more information, please call the library at 702.507.3631or see their event page.

George M. Johnson will read from their book All Boys Aren't Blue. Then, a discussion with BMI Shearing Fellow KB Brookins. They'll talk about the about the craft of writing -- including but not limited to structure, hybrid genre writing (both authors use creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and letters in their work), influence of other Black queer authors, and more.

After the program, books by both writers will be available for purchase and signing. Free. More info at Get Tickets.

Niloufar Talebi’s new book is a bilingual edition of Ahmad Shamlou, one of Iran’s most influential twentieth-century poets. It showcases her skill and dedication as a translator and cultural worker. In Elegies of the Earth, published to mark the poet’s centennial, Talebi brings Shamlou’s revolutionary voice of resistance and modernity to English readers.

Join Maryam Ala Amjadi, Iranian poet, scholar, and City of Asylum Fellow, for a conversation with Talebi on Shamlou’s enduring legacy, the power of poetry as witness, and the craft of translation.

Free. More info at Get Tickets.

This conversation opens a space to celebrate the rich perspectives of Black artists, social change makers, and everyday folks who’ve deepened our capacities to feel, observe, and be present to natural worlds that are often weaponized against us as Black people shaped in various ways by the U.S. south (east/west).

Coming from a range of disciplines and movements—music, poetry, oral history, birding, land stewardship, water protection, sobriety, demilitarization, and more—guests Lazarus Letcher, Erica Vital-Lazare, Claytee D. White, and host Saretta Morgan will reflect on their personal eco-histories and share literature, songs, photos, and ephemera that speak to how they’ve come to understand their sense of place and possibility in ever-shifting and contested geographies.