Susan Surman will read from and sign copies of her newest novel at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday at Reynolda Manor Branch Library, 2389 Fairlawn Drive.
The Australian Featherweight tells the story of Jiffo, a street criminal in late-19th century Australia, who trains as a boxer and goes to America.
Admission is free. For more information, call 703-2960.
Open-mike poetry reading is scheduled for library
The Word Is Out open-mike poetry reading will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Forsyth County Central Library, 660 W. Fifth St.
Admission is free.
Those interested in poetry and the spoken word may read their own or others' works, or just listen.
Tha Truth, a spoken-word artist, will be the host. The optional theme will be "Determination."
For more information, call 703-3050.
Evening with Gray, Hamel at Village Smith Galleries
Village Smith Galleries in Reynolda Village will present "An Evening with Bowman Gray and Beverly Hamel" from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday.
Admission is free.
Photographs by Gray will be on view, some of them from Hamel's book, Bethania: The Village by the Black Walnut Bottom. Hamel will read from and sign copies of Bethania, which traces the 250-year history of North Carolina's first planned Moravian settlement through autobiographical accounts, letters and images.
For more information, call 723-3653.
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