News & Events & Meetings

All events are at Boxcar Books and Community Center, unless otherwise noted.

Please see below for regularly scheduled meetings and events.

SEPTEMBER

IlluMENate Book Club

Sunday 9/12 3-5pm

IlluMENate, a group working to create community in Bloomington for gay, bisexual, and transgendered men, will be meeting to discuss Phil Gambone's "Travels in a Gay Nation"

Read more about IlluMENate HERE.

Boxcar Books Presents: William Upski Wimsatt, reading from his new book, Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs

9/13, 7pm

William Upski Wimsatt, author of "No More Prisons," and "Bomb the Suburbs," will be stopping at Boxcar Books and Community Center on September 13th as part of the "All Hands On Deck" national tour. While at this event Wimsatt will be reading from his new book, PLEASE DON'T BOMB THE SUBURBS, the Tour will work with dozens of groups to help organize hundreds of local teams that work the 12 Week Plan to conduct voter registration, ...swing-state trips, local voter guide parties, and Get Out The Vote actions.
 
The event is FREE and open to all. Copies of William Wimsatt's books will be available for purchase.
 
Don't miss this one, folks!

Matt Dellinger reading @ Rachael's

Wednesday 9/15 7pm

Boxcar will be tabling Bloomington native Matt Dellinger's reading and discussion of "Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway", his new book about I-69 and the battles for and against it. Covering not just the state of Indiana but the whole proposed route, from Indianapolis to the Mexican border, Dellinger goes state by state through the issues and arguments on either side of the peoposed NAFTA Superhighway.

Imagine Hatian

Friday 9/24 7-9pm

Lizzie Cooke, founder of www.ImagineHaitian.org will be speaking about her experience working in Haiti, as well as presenting a slide show on sustainable reforestation and the effects of the 2010 earthquake and selling Hatian art. Proceeds from the sale of Haitian arts and crafts will support Imagine Haitian’s reforestation efforts in Haiti. Part of Haitian Awareness Month in Bloomington.

Sentient Souls 9/29 7-9pm

OCTOBER

Julia Story reading 10/16 time tbd

Chris Nealon reading 10/18 time tbd

Christopher Nealon teaches American literature, aesthetic theory (especially the history and theory of poetry), and the history of sexuality at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1997, and taught at UC Berkeley from 1996 to 2008.

He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001), and two books of poems, The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004) and Plummet (Edge Books, 2009).  He recently finished a book called The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (forthcoming Harvard, 2011).

Barry Sanders reading 10/20 9pm

Weekly Meetings:
The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project now meets at 118 S. Rogers Suite #2
Visit: www.pagestoprisoners.org or email: mwpp@pagestoprisoners.org
Book and monetary donations should still be dropped off at Boxcar Books.
Mondays: 7-9pm The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project (during school year)
Thursdays 7-11pm The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
Sundays 2-5pm The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project

Bloomington Writing Project- at Boxcar Books: 

Tuesdays by appointment only.  Thursdays walk-ins welcome 3:30pm-6:30pm.
Free non-fiction writing help for all community members. Open to the public, walk-in’s welcome!

Volunteers at the Bloomington Writing Project come from diverse backgrounds, and offer writing consultation on a range of projects. From memoir-writing to application forms, an essay you've been thinking about to a letter to the editor, we're here to help you think through any form of non-fiction writing.

Visit: http://bloomingtonwritingproject.blogspot.com/

Monthly Meetings:
2nd Tuesday of Every Month: Community Pot Luck hosted by Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary  www.deeprootssanctuary.org

Boxcar Books provides a free meeting room and access to other resources for community,

activist, literary, and special interest groups. The meeting room is separate from the

retail space and may be utilized before, during, and after normal business hours. Please

get in touch with us to make our meeting space more active! To reserve the meeting space

for your group, please contact events@boxcarbooks.org.

Click HERE for more information about the meeting space.