Join us for the latest in our monthly series of Political Prisoner Letter Writing night events, as folks gather to write letters and send birthday cards to some of the political prisoners locked up in the US whose birthdays take place in April. Come out and show your support for folks on the inside. Here are some of the prisoners whose birthdays come this month:

*Chuck Sims Africa
*Janet Holloway Africa
*Janine Phillips Africa
*Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald
*Marshal Eddie Conway
*Mumia Abu-Jamal

Paula Keith is a local Chapel Hill activist, a poet, a write-in presidential Candidate, publisher and pilot. She will be reading from her latest collection of poems, A Terse Turn in Chapel Hill, follow-up to her previous collection titled Paula's Pedantic Poetry. She describes herself: "My writing poetry and short stories began in mid-life mostly after the birth of my daughter Alexandra. The poems are current and topical and drawn from a rich variety of life circumstances and jobs. My latest work, 'A Terse Turn in Chapel Hill', is about my home, life, love, politics and pain.

Join us at the Internationalist for an evening of passionate poetry with Raina León!

"Raina León is a fiery and courageous poet. The poems in 'Canticle of Idols', her first collection, are explosions of pain and transcendence, jagged epiphanies, surreal, haunting, erotic and anguished by turns. Whether challenging Catholic orthodoxy or celebrating her Afro-Puerto Rican legacy, remembering the struggles of an addict or the touch of a lover, León's poetry sings hymns to life in the midst of death. Listen."

Paula Keith is a local Chapel Hill activist, a poet, a write-in presidential Candidate, publisher and pilot. She will be reading from her latest collection of poems, A Terse Turn in Chapel Hill, follow-up to her previous collection titled Paula's Pedantic Poetry. She describes herself: "My writing poetry and short storys began in mid-life mostly after the birth of my daughter Alexandra. The poems are current and topical and drawn from a rich variety of life circumstances and jobs.

Join Internationalist Books for an exciting and evocative reading with acclaimed poet William La Riche, as he reads from his latest work, "To the House of Collateral Damage: Centuries of the Civilian Dead."

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.