The Poetry Pour x Symposium Books present Poetry Club

Schedule

Fri Jul 31 2026 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00
Location

Symposium Books | Providence, RI

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Poetry Pour returns to Symposium Books, and this time we're discussing "Depression & Other Magic Tricks"
About this Event

Join us on July 31st from 7:30-8:30pm as we host poetry book club with The Poetry Pour. This month, we're reading Sabrina Benaim's Depression & Other Magic Tricks. Copies of the book are available to purchase in-store or online at symposiumbooks.com

About the book:

2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up
Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Andrea Gibson, author of Lord of the Butterflies writes "I read this book on a day I couldn't get out of bed and it made me feel like I had a friend in the world...Simply put, this book disappears loneliness.

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Symposium Books, 240 Westminster Street, Providence, United States

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