Renowned poet and Hillsborough resident Jeffery Beam will bring his latest collection of riveting, passionate poems to Internationalist Books! "The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969-2007" brings together more than three decades of lyrical, metaphysical Gay poetry from native North Carolinian Jeffery Beam. The vast majority of these poems are unpublished in any of his previously published books, but were originally published in many of the most important gay magazines & anthologies of the latter half of the 20th century.

If you like your synth-pop raw and your performers theatrical, then you are not going to want to miss Snowglobe Explosion on Nov. 15. They've been stealing the show recently at venues in Carrboro and Chapel Hill, and their appearance at Internationalist Books promises to be no exception.

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A young African-American man deals with racial alienation from within his own community in this powerful short film that has been named an official selection for both the Eugene International Film Festival and the San Diego Black Film Festival, among others. "Trouble In The Water" deals with complex subjects like self-mockery and racial identity in a sensitive and localized manner, but still forces viewers to think about the issue on a larger scale. The film has been aired locally on PBS' Carolina Visions and Time-Warner's Second Cinema.