Word Up welcomes Jacqueline Jimenez Polanco to celebrate the launch of Honoring Sappho: A Lesbian Poetry book and Sappho en Santo Domingo: Un poemario lésbico.
Diverse Books + Banter: "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison Join the Inwood Library to discuss: "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison. This is an IN-PERSON event only -- register online to secure your seat. You may reserve a physical copy of this book to pick up at a library branch. Open to Adults 18+
Word Up welcomes award-winning professor Seth Michelson to discuss his new book Hope on the Border: Immigration, Incarceration, and the Power of Poetry, a humanizing story of immigration shown through the lens of undocumented, unaccompanied children and the poems they write.
Word Up welcomes activist and author Iris Morales and translator Angel Antonio Ruiz-Laboy to share their book A Flag's Journey, now available in Spanish!
Join us at Word Up for a celebratory reading and panel conversation for Creative Stillness Anthology, a collective work of poetry and essays honoring the spaces where creativity is shaped, restored, and reclaimed, curated by Dhayana Alejandrina.
Word Up welcomes mental health advocate and storyteller Leah 수진 Kim to discuss her new book, Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood, a deeply personal examination of the dire state of our maternal and postpartum care for mothers. In conversation with Kim will be Frederick Joseph, author of This Thing of Ours and Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood.
