Past events at The Raven Bookstore

May 23, 2013

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

April 25, 2013

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

March 28, 2013

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

March 19, 2013

Reading: Kansas City Voices

March 6, 2013

Reading: Louie Galloway, writer and poet

Feb. 28, 2013

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Feb. 8, 2013

Reading: Mike Wehmeyer, author of Good Blood, Bad Blood

Feb. 7, 2013

Reading: Jeff Dobson, author of The Waters of Chaos

Jan. 31, 2013

Book reading: Stuart Levine, "Killing in Okaraygua,"

Jan. 24, 2013

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Dec. 6, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Oct. 30, 2012

TRILOGY AWARENESS EVENT: Martha Kehr, author of THE ADVENTURES OF MARCY AND SARA books

Oct. 25, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Oct. 16, 2012

Reading & Signing: Diane Bailey, author of MURDER A CAPELLA

Oct. 11, 2012

Reading & Signing: William Levitan, author of ABELARD & HELOISE: THE LETTERS AND OTHER WRITING

Oct. 10, 2012

Reading: KANSAS CITY NOIR, featuring Steve Paul, with contributors Grace Suh, Philip Stephe

Oct. 8, 2012

Tina Connolly, author of IRONSKIN

Oct. 4, 2012

Reading & Signing: Robert Collins, author of KANSAS, 1874

Sept. 27, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Sept. 27, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Sept. 25, 2012

Reading: KC Voices, Volume 9

Sept. 25, 2012

Reading: KC Voices, Volume 9

Sept. 21, 2012

Poetry Reading: Gary Lechlighter and Al Ortolani

Sept. 18, 2012

Reading & Signing: Kij Johnson, author of AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER OF BEES

Sept. 12, 2012

A Conversation about Gender, Race, Space, and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Sept. 7, 2012

Reading & Signing: Kelly Barth, author of My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus, A Memoir

Aug. 30, 2012

READING AND SIGNING: Maggie Koerth-Baker, author of Before the Lights Go Out

Aug. 30, 2012

Reading & Signing: Maggie Koerth-Baker, author of BEFORE THE LIGHTS GO OUT

Aug. 23, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Aug. 21, 2012

Reading & Signing: Eleanor Sullivan, author of Cover Her Body

Aug. 9, 2012

Reading & Signing: Ian Hall, author of OPPORTUNITIES: JAMIE LEITH IN DARIEN

Aug. 4, 2012

Reading & Signing: Kory Kaul, author of JURY RIG

July 26, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

June 28, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

June 27, 2012

Reading: Sue Westwind, author of Lunacy Lost

June 27, 2012

Reading & Signing: Sue Westwind, author of LUNACY LOST: A MEMOIR OF GREEN MENTAL HEALTH

June 14, 2012

Reading & Signing: Julianne Buchsbaum, author of a new book of poetry, THE APOTHECARY'S HEIR

June 11, 2012

Reading & Signing: James Peters, author of ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY: SHRINE TO AMERICA'S HEROES

June 7, 2012

Reading & Signing: David Hann, author of RIVER MEMOIR

June 6, 2012

Reading & Signing: Benjamin Busch, author of Dust to Dust

June 1, 2012

Reading & Signing: Alex Grecian, author of The Yard

May 31, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

May 19, 2012

Reading & Signing: Linda Rodriguez, author of Every Last Secret

May 11, 2012

Reading & Signing: Robert Fraga, author of The Greening of Oz

April 27, 2012

Rock 'n' Reading

April 26, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

April 21, 2012

Reading & Signing: Dockery, Mirriam-Goldberg and Steele

April 14, 2012

Reading & Signing: Lea Graham and Timothy Bradford

April 13, 2012

Reading & Signing: Louise Krug author of Louise: Amended

April 12, 2012

Reading & Signing: Andrea Warren, author of Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

April 6, 2012

Reading & Signing: Megan Kaminski author of Desiring Map

April 6, 2012

Poetry Reading & Book Signing: Megan Kaminski

April 5, 2012

Reading & Signing: George Gurley, author of George & Hilly

March 29, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

March 23, 2012

Talk on women's suffrage

Feb. 25, 2012

Reading: Midwestern Gothic

Feb. 22, 2012

Harriet Lerner: Author Talk and Discussion

Jan. 27, 2012

Reading and Signing: Jo McDougall and Al Ortolani

Jan. 26, 2012

BIG TENT: Stories & Poems in Three Acts

Jan. 21, 2012

Release Party: Blue Island Review 2011

Dec. 16, 2011

Parcel Launch and Holiday Party

Dec. 9, 2011

Book signing: "The Paradise Cafe and Bakery Cookbook" by Missy McCoy

Nov. 11, 2011

Readings by The Great Plains Writing Group

Oct. 27, 2011

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

Oct. 24, 2011

Girls Got Guts Reading and Food Day Celebration

Oct. 10, 2011

Pregnancy Poetry Reading

June 23, 2011

BIG TENT: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

June 16, 2011

Poets Sonnet L’Abbé and Karen Ohnesorge read

June 2, 2011

Reading of "Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office"

May 19, 2011

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

May 17, 2011

Mariko Nagai, author of "Georgic: Stories,"

May 13, 2011

Tasha Haas and Mary Wharff read at The Raven

May 12, 2011

Wyatt Townley and Roderick Townley read at The Raven

April 26, 2011

Readings by William J. Harris and Stanley Lombardo

March 17, 2011

Authors to read at The Raven

March 4, 2011

Book release celebration, new memoirs by Deb Olin Unferth and Joseph Harrington

Feb. 24, 2011

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

Oct. 30, 2010

Coal City Review issue #27 launch party

Oct. 28, 2010

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

Oct. 22, 2010

"Wild Joy: Ruminations" author Paul Goldman

Oct. 15, 2010

Author Antonya Nelson

Oct. 15, 2010

Antonya Nelson reading

Oct. 14, 2010

Reading by author Abayomi Animashaun

Oct. 14, 2010

Poet Abayomi Animashaun reading

Sept. 29, 2010

Reading and signing with Barbara Stuber, author of "Crossing the Tracks"

Aug. 14, 2010

Discussion and book signing with Susan Zuber-Chall

July 17, 2010

David Taylor speaks

June 25, 2010

Sophie Hannah reading

June 24, 2010

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

May 27, 2010

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

May 27, 2010

Big Tent Thursdays

April 19, 2010

An Actual Kansas Reading Series

March 25, 2010

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

March 5, 2010

Kenneth Irby poetry reading

March 5, 2010

Kenneth Irby reading

Feb. 25, 2010

Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts

Feb. 19, 2010

Reading by Kansas City poets Phyllis Becker, Silvia Kofler and Pat Lawson

Feb. 12, 2010

Stan Lombardo reads from Dante's "Inferno"

Feb. 12, 2010

KU Classic professor Stanley Lombardo reads from "The Inferno"

Dec. 20, 2009

John C. Ralston book signing for "The Secret of Invisibility"

Dec. 19, 2009

Drakkar Sauna Christmas Show

Oct. 23, 2009

"The Moon For Its Citizens," book release and reading by Wallace Cochran

Sept. 4, 2009

Book reading and signing: Timothy Hallinan’s “Breathing Water”

Aug. 27, 2009

Big Tent Reading

June 25, 2009

"Big Tent: Stories & Poems in Three Acts"

June 24, 2009

Garret Tufte book signing

April 23, 2009

"Big Tent: Stories and Poems in Three Acts"

April 2, 2009

Kelly McMasters public reading

March 26, 2009

"Big Tent" reading series

Nov. 15, 2008

Poetry reading: "Poetry for the Changing Light"

Nov. 8, 2008

Book signing: "Where the Wind Blew" author Bob Sommer

Nov. 7, 2008

Book reading: "Baby Jesus Pawn Shop" author Lucia Orth

Oct. 21, 2008

Sandy Gladfelter booksigning

Oct. 17, 2008

Deb Olin Unferth "Vacation" Reading

July 19, 2008

"Wild Women (W)Rite!: A Display of Poetic Fireworks in the Dead of Summer"

May 8, 2008

PoetryNow! reading

Oct. 30, 2005

Halloween stories from Priscilla Howe