Reading

The Free Association Reading Series returns for this year’s sixth installment of intimate readings. This month’s program features exceptional local writers Richard Hamilton, T.N. Eyer, Inga Lea Schmidt, Christina Fisanick.

Longtime friend of City of Asylum and co-founder of Cave Canem, Toi Derricotte, returns to Alphabet City for a reading featuring all new poems in an exclusive sneak preview of content from her upcoming book.

In this teen-curated reading, City of Asylum celebrates the 2023–2024 Allegheny County Youth Poet Laureate Hallie Dong and 2023–2024 Allegheny County Youth Poet Ambassadors Lilah George, Madeline Ng, Casey Vallecorsa, and Oluwatobiloba Olaore.

In a continuation of our Healthcare and Humanity Reading Series, City of Asylum welcomes author Muhammad Zaman to share his recently released work "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced."

Renowned author Álvaro Enrigue shares a reading from his new novel "You Dreamed of Empires" as part of Anderson Tepper's ongoing "World Literature" series.

The Free Association Reading Series returns for its second installment of 2024. This month’s program features exceptional local writers Lainy Carslaw, Richard Hamilton, Hallie Pritts, Robert Walicki.

Booker nominated & Pulitzer winner Hisham Matar share his brand new novel, "My Friends," in City of Asylum debut.

City of Asylum presents the Hiawatha Project original play “In Our Time: Pandemic Stories from the Frontlines” by Anya Martin.