Classes & Trips | Politics and Prose Bookstore

CLASSES at Politics and Prose:

Our in-person classes are postponed. Classes are now being offered online. Please see the Classes webage for listings.

For direct class inquires please email: classes@politics-prose.com

BOOK GROUPS:

All in-person book group meetings are suspended. Please check the individual book group webpages for online meeting information.

For direct inquires please email: bookgroups@politics-prose.com

TRIPS:

All day trips have been postponed with new dates pending to come.

Thank you for your support at this time.

Featured Classes

ONLINE CLASS: Childhood Memoirs: Marjane Satrapi and Trevor Noah (2093)

This class brings together two must-read memoirs about politics, nation, childhood, and belonging: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime. These coming of age stories are brimming with joy, humor, and sadness, depicting worlds where children are forced to grow up all too quickly. Two Wednesdays: September 23 and 30, from 11 am to 1 pm. Online Class.

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ONLINE CLASS: Passing through the Veil: Black Characters and White-passing from the Antebellum Period to the Jim Crow Era (20107)

“Who are your people?” A simple question to ask, but often a difficult one to answer if you consider that we are all a heterogenous mixture of cultures, ethnicities, and categories. These readings will prompt us to probe the history of race and identity in the United States and the ways in which that history continues to live on. Four Wednesdays: October 7, 14, 21, 28, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Online Class.

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ONLINE CLASS: Deep Poetry: Reading Audre Lorde and Sylvia Plath (2095)

Join poet Annie Finch for a deep reading of Audre Lorde and Slyvia Plath, two of the most monumental and fascinating poets of the twentieth century, with attention to gender, iconography, meter, sexuality, race, and rhetoric. Six Thursdays: October 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Online Class.

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