
Join us for online presentations featuring acclaimed literary critics, historians, and other scholars.
• Watch past programs
• Sign up for invitations to future online events and monthly LOA news
Please note: A complete listing of LOA’s Lift Every Voice events centered on African American poetry can be found at africanamericanpoetry.org.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
With David W. Blight
Wednesday, February 15
6–7 p.m. ET
Frederick Douglass’s first recorded speech, “I Have Come to Tell You Something About Slavery,” inaugurated a five-decade career as the fiery, eloquent champion of abolition and emancipation, equal rights and human dignity. Join David W. Blight, Douglass’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and editor of a revelatory new LOA collection, for an exploration of the genius of an extraordinary man who escaped slavery to become one of the greatest orators and writers in American history.
Click here to register.
Back to the Future Is Female!
Tuesday, March 14
6–7 p.m. ET
For Women’s History Month, discover the visionary science fiction writers who broke the genre’s gender barrier. With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Pamela Sargent, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Lisa Yaszek. Registration link to come.
Small Miracles: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
Thursday, April 20
6–7 p.m. ET
Acclaimed short-story writers Tobias Wolff and Nicole Krauss join LOA Live for a master class in one of Bernard Malamud’s greatest stories, with Malamud’s biographer Philip Davis. Registration link to come.
‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis
Wednesday, May 17
6–7 p.m. ET
With Roy Blount Jr., Ian Frazier, Mary Roach, Paul Theroux, Ed Park, Calvin Trillin, and special guests. Registration link to come.
2023 • | 2022 • | 2021 • | 2020 |
January 18, 2023
2022
The Unknown KerouacNovember 14, 2022
October 20, 2022
September 15, 2022
July 20, 2022
June 29, 2022
June 1, 2022
May 18, 2022
May 3, 2022
March 16, 2022
February 24, 2022
January 25, 2022
2021
American Christmas StoriesDecember 15, 2021
November 22, 2021
October 28, 2021
October 6, 2021
July 14, 2021
June 17, 2021
May 19, 2021
April 22, 2021
April 15, 2021
March 30, 2021
March 18, 2021
March 3, 2021
February 18, 2021
January 27, 2021
2020
Peanuts at 70December 16, 2020
December 2, 2020
![]() |
November 19, 2020 (video not available)
October 29, 2020
October 13, 2020
September 23, 2020
September 10, 2020
August 26, 2020
August 6, 2020
July 28, 2020
July 16, 2020
June 25, 2020
June 16, 2020
June 4, 2020