Literature

thurs. 17
.New-reNEW - Just Buffalo
Literary Center presents an evening of
poetry featuring fiction writer and
playwright Gary Earl Ross and poet
Lisa Forrest, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17,
Impact Artists' Gallery, Tri-Main
Center, Suite 545, 2495 Main St.,
Buffalo; free. 832-5400,
www.just buffalo.org
.Small Press Poetry Reading
- Just Buffalo Literary Center presents
series featuring Peter Conners and Brian

Mornar, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, Rust
Belt Books, 202 Allen St., Buffalo; free.
832-5400, www.justbuffalo.org
sat. 19
.WNY Romance Writers Group
- With Pattie Steele Perkins, of Patti
Steele Perkins Literary Agency, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 19, St. Joseph's Hospital
Community Room, 2605 Harlem Road,
Cheektowaga; free. www.wnyrw.org
sun. 20
.A Poetic Evening - Poet
Robert Pomerhn and other local writers,
7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, Lancaster Opera
House, 21 Central Ave., Lancaster; free.
683-1776, www.lancopera.org