Wednesday, April 18 @ 7PM | Housing Works Bookstore Café
Don’t miss a night of extraordinary storytelling at one of the best literary spots in NYC!
National Poetry Slam Champion, Elizabeth Acevedo will read from her debut novel, The Poet X, along with readings by PEN Open Book Award nominee, Jade Sharma, and 2017 Prairie Schooner Prize Winner, Sara Batkie…
Wednesday, May 2 6-8PM | POETS HOUSE
Join award-winning poets and educators, Rachel Zucker and Kaveh Akbar in an exploration of the perils and responsibilities of writing about violence and oppression as it is experienced by others. Kaveh’s poem, “Heritage,” about a young Iranian woman hanged in 2014 for killing her attempted rapist…
Wednesday May, 23 @7PM | KGB Bar
Celebrate the newly published anthology, Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism with four contributing poets. Lauren Clark, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Ruth Irupe Sanabria, and Wendy Xu will bring feminist fire to the East Village on what is sure to be an evening to remember.
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism is “a collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender…
