# Event Details - **Event Name**: Lee Bains: Author Reading & Signing - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us for an evening with Hub City Press author Lee Bains, who will be reading from his new poetry collection Work Lunch.About this EventLee Bains will be signing copies of his books after the event.About the BookIn his debut poetry collection, Alabama poet and musician Lee Bains draws on his own experience at the intersection of work and food—the daily ritual of a workday lunch.Lee Bains’s four albums center what Rolling Stone once called “Southern gospel punk.” In Work Lunch, his poems explore the multifaceted and often contradictory nature of Southern culture and values through the lens of food, whether at a meat-and-three or a taquería. In sprawling, long-form poems, Bains mines subjects of family, the often invisible work of service, and the horrors and comforts of fast food chains.A take-out gyro prompts a reflection on religious-nationalist violence, a Cuban sandwich spurs consideration of U.S. imperialism, a hamburger channels into a cry of solidarity with organized labor, and a salad elicits an epic rumination on lineage, class, race, gender, memory, and faith. These poems glimpse sandwiches under shade trees, tables full of boisterous coworkers discussing barbecue, and reflective moments at those dwindling local spots, all fertile ground for investigating Bains’s home places of Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, the systems of power that shape life there, and the ways in which ordinary people survive, connect and fight back.About the AuthorLee Bains is a poet and songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama, who since 2012 has released four studio albums of what Rolling Stone calls “Southern gospel punk," and will publish his debut poetry collection Work Lunch with Hub City Press in 2026 after several of the poems were first published by the New Yorker in 2021. A cult songwriter forged in independent scenes, his work has carried him all over the U.S. and Europe, has received acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, and The Guardian, and has led him to be a supporting musician for other artists like Lonnie Holley, Moor Mother, and Algiers. Lee has lent his work to support striking coal miners, immigrants’ rights groups, abortion funds, and anti-racism organizations. He has performed and read at Emory University, the University of Mississippi, Tulane University, Auburn University, and The Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works between tours as a handyman. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/spartanburg/lee-bains-author-reading-and-signing/100002000206043119 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Music, Sports, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Hub City Bookshop - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Spartanburg - **state**: SC - **country**: United States - **location**: Hub City Bookshop - **lat**: 34.9488918 - **long**: -81.93445529999997 - **full address**: Hub City Bookshop, 186 W Main St, Spartanburg, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Lee Bains: Author Reading & Signing - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/6cb4ede1eb47fa7e00119bb8dad952de10d66b7dc71ae075b7db55dbec780432-rimg-w1200-h600-dcc84838-gmir.jpg?v=1788946383 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Lee Bains: Author Reading & Signing being held? - **A:** Lee Bains: Author Reading & Signing takes place on Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Hub City Bookshop, 186 W Main St, Spartanburg, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Lee Bains: Author Reading & Signing? - **A:** Lee Bains: Author Reading & Signing is organized by Hub City Writers Project. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Lee Bains: Author Reading & Signing", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/6cb4ede1eb47fa7e00119bb8dad952de10d66b7dc71ae075b7db55dbec780432-rimg-w1200-h600-dcc84838-gmir.jpg?v=1788946383", "startDate": "2026-10-15T18:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-10-15T19:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/spartanburg/lee-bains-author-reading-and-signing/100002000206043119", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Hub City Bookshop", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "186 W Main St", "postalCode": "29306", "addressLocality": "Spartanburg", "addressRegion": "SC", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "34.9488918", "longitude": "-81.93445529999997" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for an evening with Hub City Press author Lee Bains, who will be reading from his new poetry collection Work Lunch.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-09", "availabilityEnds": "2026-10-15T19:00:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-09-09", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/spartanburg/lee-bains-author-reading-and-signing/100002000206043119" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-09", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-09", "url": "https://allevents.in/spartanburg/lee-bains-author-reading-and-signing/100002000206043119", "price": 0, "name": "RSVP" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Hub City Writers Project", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/hub-city-writers-project/17625680", "description": "The Hub City Writers Project is a nonprofit organization in Spartanburg, South Carolina, dedicated to cultivating readers and nurturing writers through its independent small press, community bookstore, and diverse literary programming." } ] } ] ```