We don’t expect our manifestos, our documents of rebellion or revolution—in society in general or in the arts—to be penned by 73-year-olds. But then Steve Katz, an innovator in fiction writing who has been strenuously recreating his art since the mid 1960s, is not one’s typical 73-year-old.

This year’s Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, which took place last month, was more evidence, if one needed any, that Buffalo remains a hotbed of small press activity. The spirit of the book fair lives on this week through two sets of events: Just Buffalo’s Small Press Poetry Series, and the UB Poetics sponsored Small Press Poet/Publisher Symposium.

Chilean-American novelist Isabel Allende is the last speaker in this year’s season of Babel, the wildly successful speaker series conceived by Just Buffalo Literary Center and realized with the help of an ever-growing list of sponsors.

Lit City is presented by Just Buffalo (www.justbuffalo.org)