January Events at Weller Book Works

EVENTS | JANUARY 2025

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January Events

Visit our events calendar for up-to-date information on all of our events.

Our holiday hours are as follows:

We'll close early on New Year's Eve at about 5PM.

On New Year Day, we will be closed.

Back to regular hours on Thursday, 1/2.

1/14 TUESDAY 10AM — Breakfast Club

Join us for a literary Kaffeeklatsch! Books, coffee, snacks, and chats every Tuesday morning at Moka Meets Boba, located directly across from our first floor entrance.

HELD WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS

1/16 THURSDAY 7PM

An Evening with Jose-Luis Moctezuma

Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a Xicano poet, essayist, and researcher. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. His first full-length book, Place-Discipline, was published by Omnidawn in October 2018. Place-Discipline was selected by Myung Mi Kim as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. His second book, Black Box Syndrome, was published by Omnidawn in December 2023. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

Chengru He and Jamie L. Smith in Conversation

Join us for the launch of I Would Vanish into Its Stronger Existence! Author Chengru He will be in conversation with Jamie L. Smith.

Chengru He is the author of a hybrid collection I Would Vanish into Its Stronger Existence (Wet Cement Press 2024) and a book of poetry M O月 N (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, forthcoming 2025); the translator of two books of translation in Chinese. Her writing, translation, and multi-media work appear or are forthcoming in Alchemy Journal of Translation, Ancient Exchange, Defunct, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Poet Lore, Speculative Nonfiction, Tint Journal, Unlikely Stories, Watershed Review, and elsewhere.

1/21 TUESDAY 10AM — Breakfast Club at Moka Meets Boba

1/22 WEDNESDAY 10AM — Lit Knit

Join Catherine and the crafters of WBW in the store for casual, bookish chinwags. All crafts and crafters welcome.

Lit Knit is held every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.

1/28 TUESDAY 10AM — Breakfast Club at Moka Meets Boba

1/31 FRIDAY 6:30PM — Collectors' Book Salon

Book-lovers and collectors meet in the Rare Book department for the Collectors' Book Salon every final Friday of each month, January through October. We begin casually around 6:30 PM with socializing, light refreshments, and shared bibliolust. At 7:15, an invited bibliophile leads the Collectors' Chat about a topic of her or his particular knowledge and passion. Each Salon, Tony offers a special deal on rare books that is only for Salon guests. In keeping with tradition, the first Collectors Book Salon of the year will be a sharing session. Stay tuned for more details!