The Slash Pine Writers Festival will take place this weekend in various venues across Tuscaloosa. The first event, taking place on Friday at 2:30 p.m., will be the book launch of “Out of This Stony Rubbish: An Anthology of Trash Poems” in 301 Morgan Hall. Another event, SplashPOP, will take place on the same day at 7 p.m. at Green Bar. More readings will be held Saturday, including a poetry hike at 10 a.m. at the UA Arboretum, an afternoon reading at 3 p.m. at Green Bar and an evening reading at 7:30 p.m. at the Jemison van de Graaff Mansion. For more information, visit slashpinepress.com.
Compiled by Francie Johnson