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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Seth Michelson's HOPE ON THE BORDER with David C. Baluarte
DESCRIPTION: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. In conversation with Michelson will be David C. Baluarte\, an immigration attorney and CUNY law professor. \n\n“Heartfelt . . . a surprisingly uplifting call to reform an unjust system.” -Publishers Weekly \n\nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees for this event are encouraged to stay masked. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn heart-wrenching prose\, Seth Michelson faces the U.S. immigration crisis head on-by learning and sharing the stories of migrating people fleeing violence and poverty\, and by leading workshops for minors held inside a maximum-security detention center. Highlighting the experiences of people desperate for safety\, Michelson tirelessly fights for justice and their freedom. Guided through the powerful medium of poetry\, the children share their pasts\, struggles\, hopes\, and dreams. Among them\, Carlitos\, a 13-year-old boy who escaped a gang to try to make a safe and honest life on his own after his mother’s death\, and Karla\, a teenager whose family begged her to flee for safety after she was shot. Remarkably\, they and other children from similar circumstances express themselves with honesty\, passion\, and optimism for a better future. \nMichelson also introduces us to migrating people at the border\, including a woman who was chased from her home amid violence\, and a dedicated father who was arrested and beaten while searching for work to make a more secure life for his wife and daughter. \nWhether relating experiences in a Mexican refugee camp or a U.S. immigration detention center\, Michelson’s prose is brisk and gripping\, offering hard-earned insights into ways we might create a better immigration system that treats all people with dignity. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSeth Michelson is an award-winning professor who has gained recognition from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. He is the author of academic articles\, book introductions\, film and book reviews\, and fourteen books of poetry and poetry in translation. His work has been published in English and Spanish in Argentina\, Mexico\, England\, and Italy\, among other countries. He currently teaches at Washington and Lee University in Virginia where he is the chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He lives in Charlottesville\, Virginia. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nDavid C. Baluarte (he/él) joined CUNY School of Law as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law in January 2024. Baluarte is an advocate\, teacher\, and scholar in the areas of immigration\, refugee and statelessness protection\, and international human rights. He has written numerous journal articles\, academic studies\, human rights reports\, and participated in various grant-funded projects and high-profile impact litigation initiatives in these areas.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art/Culture/Performance,Music,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Inwood Library: Diverse Books + Banter - "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison
DESCRIPTION:Diverse Books + Banter: “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison \nJoin the Inwood Library  to discuss:  “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison. \nThis is an IN-PERSON event only. You can register online to secure your seat.  You may reserve a physical copy of this book to pick up at a library branch. \nCopies of the book are currently available for borrowing at the Inwood Library. While supplies last! \nOpen to Adults 18+
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-library-diverse-books-banter-recitatif-by-toni-morrison/
LOCATION:Inwood Library\, 4790 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco's HONORING SAPPHO & SAPPHO EN SANTO DOMINGO
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th. \nABOUT HONORING SAPPHO\nThis poetry book compiles original poems written by the author\, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco\, and her personal creative expansion of several Sappho’s fragments. The book has been written to honor Sappho and express the author’s admiration for Sappho’s extraordinary life during which she nurtured a genuine lesbian romance with Atthis and built a diverse lesbian community with women she mentored to write and sing poetry for love\, leisure\, companionship\, support\, and visibility. This book is a tribute to Sappho’s rich and unique poetic work and a token of gratitude to the first and grand lesbian Muse in the history of humanity. \nSOBRE SAPPHO EN SANTO DOMINGO\nHe conversado en sueños con Sappho. Ella me cuenta los desafíos de su relación con Atthis\, sus proezas para verla y estar juntas\, sus anhelos no realizados\, las lágrimas derramadas y la alegría de vivir felices en Santo Domingo luego de tanto pesar. De esa conversación nace mi inspiración para este libro de poesía lésbica que escribo con gran emoción en honor a Sappho\, la gran Musa lésbica de la historia de la humanidad. En este poemario\, la lectora se deleitará con una prosa cotidiana de una estética excelsa sobre la isla caribeña\, su gente\, su arte\, sus costumbres\, el erotismo lésbico y una reflexión profunda sobre tradiciones que limitan el lesbianismo en su más auténtica expresión. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nJacqueline Jiménez Polanco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a Ph.D. in political science and sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a concentration in political changes in contemporary democracies. Dr. Jiménez Polanco is the author of Los partidos políticos en la República Dominicana: Actividad electoral y desarrollo organizativo and Corrupción y cartelización de la política en la República Dominicana and co-editor of Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change. She was granted a PSC-CUNY Award in 2023.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bruce’s Garden: Summer Readings!
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the eleventh year of Bruce’s Garden Summer Readings! \nAll Readings are on Wednesdays and start at 7 P.M. with refreshments starting at 6:30. \nMAY 20 ROBERT SNYDER will read from When the City Stopped Stories from New York’s Essential Workers (Cornell University Press\, 2025) \nA warm welcome back to Rob who read from Crossing Broadway (Cornell University Press\, 2014) in 2015. His new book\, When the City Stopped\, preserves for future generations what it was like to be in New York when it was at the center of the COVID pandemic. The story is told through the words of health care workers\, grocery clerks\, transit workers\, and community activists who recount their experiences in poems\, first-person narratives\, and interviews. \nJUNE 24 WRITING NEW YORK STORIES From the Nineteenth through Twenty-First Centuries \nAward-winning Gotham Center Blogger and Online Editor of the Urban History Journal\, KATIE UVA https://www.katieuva.com/ will join editor GEOFF WISNER https://www.geoffwisner.com/ to discuss writing about life in the city. Geoff’s book George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries\, (Library of America\, 2026) and Katie’s blog posts should be the sources of a lively discussion. \nJULY 22 LESLIE DAY River–A Hudson Memoir (Cornell University Press\, 2025) \nWe are honored to have Leslie Day https://www.leslieday.nyc/ as this year’s Sid Horenstein Memorial Reader. Dr. Day is an accomplished and prolific writer about the natural world\, particularly in New York City. She will read from and discuss her latest book\, River–A Hudson Memoir\, a unique look at life on and of the Hudson River. It is a love letter to New York City\, its famous waterway\, as well as the environment around us and the people who shape it.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/bruces-garden-summer-readings-5/
LOCATION:Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden\, Across from 10 Park Terrace EAST\, near W. 215 St.\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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SUMMARY:Word Up: No Name Variety Show (May 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Eric Vetter\, No Name is a “workout show\,” wherein talented performers are encouraged to play and try out new comedic or storytelling material. The audience is invited to hang out afterward to share feedback\, shoot the breeze\, and get on the mic themselves. Every third Tuesday of the month. \nNo Name Super Storytellers Party is hosted every first Tuesday of the month.  \nAdmission is FREE\, donations welcomed. Masks are required. \nWord Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A\, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St\, turn left\, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue).
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/no-name-variety/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fort Washington Library: Neighborhood Book Club 'Lake Effect' by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:Reading keeps us connected. Join us for a neighborhood book club at the Fort Washington Branch! \nThe New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community. This book club will take place IN PERSON at the Fort Washington Branch. \nThe April title is Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s Lake Effect – a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. \nIt’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester\, New York\, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and\, for some\, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend\, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child\, Clara\, is falling in love for the first time\, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a prominent neighbor brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible—but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara’s world\, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood. \nYears later\, Clara\, now a successful food stylist in New York City\, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons\, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down. Written with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature humor and insight\, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire\, mothers and daughters\, loss and grief\, and what we owe the people we love most.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/fort-washington-library-neighborhood-book-club-lake-effect-by-cynthia-daprix-sweeney/
LOCATION:Fort Washington Library\, 535 West 179th Street (Between St. Nicholas & Audubon)\, New York\, NY\, 10033
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park Nature Center: Nature Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Inwood Hill Park Nature Book Club \nJoin the Urban Park Rangers for a monthly discussion of a nature-themed book. This month’s book will be Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. Please have the book read before the meeting! \nRegistration not required. Program will be at Nature Center.\nWest 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-nature-center-nature-book-club/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park Nature Center\, 218th St and Indian Rd. Entrance\, walk north\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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SUMMARY:No Name Super Storyteller Party (May 2026)
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\,  May 5\,  2026  No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter and host Michele Carlo bring New York’s best established and emerging authors and storytellers including: Rachel Parenta\, Kelli Dunham\, Calvin Cato and Alexander Scott to the Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights @ 7pm. for its monthly series “No Name at Word Up Super Story Party. \nThe show will also include a “Magic Hat Open-Mic” where audience members can signup for a chance at four minutes of stage time to share their own stories. \nAdmission is FREE\, donations welcomed. Masks and proof of vaccination may be required. Word Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A\, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St\, turn left\, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue). \nFor additional information\, go to wordupbooks.com or call (347) 688-4456.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/no-name-super-storyteller-party-2/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Spoken Word,Unique Events,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Community Potluck (Independent Bookstore Day)
DESCRIPTION:Community Potluck with Caroline Choe (Independent Bookstore Day) \nIn an attempt to remind folks there is still love\, life\, and safety in our community spaces\, especially in such a turbulent time\, chef Caroline Choe\, author of Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious\, Shareable Sides\, is hosting a community potluck at Recirculation. \nAttendees are encouraged to bring their favorite dish and celebrate cherished third spaces on Independent Bookstore Day! \nPlease register in advance.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-recirculation-community-potluck-independent-bookstore-day/
LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Unique Events,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Recirculation Word Up: Stuart Schrader's BLUE POWER with Philip V. McHarris
DESCRIPTION:Word Up welcomes historian Stuart Schrader to discuss his new book  Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (out April 14\, 2026)\, a history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. In conversation with Schrader will be Philip V. McHarris\, author of Beyond Policing.  \n“Stuart Schrader’s sweeping history of the political mobilization of the police makes clear just how historically distinctive the role of the police in our society is today. Blue Power chronicles the rise of the police as a political force\, and the lobbying strategies\, rhetorical campaigns\, and legal gambits police unions and associations have deployed to protect the power and autonomy of their members. This has indelibly shaped not only American cities and criminal justice policies\, but our society and politics as a whole. The book is a remarkable achievement.”—Kim Phillips-Fein\, author of Fear City
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/recirculation-word-up-stuart-schraders-blue-power-with-philip-v-mcharris/
LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Book Signing with Jonnie Park: SPIT
DESCRIPTION:Word Up welcomes Jonnie Park–better known by his rap moniker\, Dumbfoundead– for a signing for his raw and electrifying memoir\, SPIT. Jonnie Park rose from an unruly childhood in Los Angeles’s iconic Koreatown to international rap stardom is as unlikely as it is exhilarating\, and tells it all in his memoir. \nAttendees must preorder the featured book ahead of the signing at WordUpBooks.com. The signing ends at 1:30pm. \nBorn in Argentina to Korean parents and smuggled by a coyote across the US-Mexico border at age three\, Park grew up in L.A. amid cultural dislocation\, his father’s violent alcoholism\, and the turbulent protests and riots of the early 1990s. \nSearching for belonging\, he found salvation in the highly competitive underground world of battle rap\, where he was among the only successful Asian American battle rappers. He honed his freestyle superpowers at Project Blowed\, the legendary South Central L.A. open-mic venue\, amid a motley crew of characters who took him in as one of their own. \nTold through the lens of his life’s greatest battles–his father’s rage\, racist stereotypes\, the “model minority” myth\, the pressures of fame\, and his own addictions–Park tells his story with his trademark humor\, lyrical style\, and unflinching honesty. \nLike Eminem’s 8 Mile\, SPIT charts the author’s course from high-school dropout to cultural pioneer\, one verse at a time. Featuring a dozen vivid graphic novel-style illustrations that bring his journey to life\, SPIT visualizes the inner demons and outer adversaries Park faced along the way. From open-mics in South Central to freestyle cyphers in Seoul to music festivals across the globe\, Park’s memoir is a testament to creativity\, grit\, and the power of speaking your truth–even when the world isn’t ready to hear it. \nMore than just a chronicle of an artist’s path to success\, SPIT is a groundbreaking story of identity\, resilience\, and reinvention. It is also the story of an American outsider who turned life’s challenges into his stage and battled his way to triumph. \n 
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-book-signing-with-jonnie-park-spit/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T140000
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Story Time -- Apolonia Valiente's "The Words Will Come"
DESCRIPTION:Word Up welcomes children’s book author Apolonia Valiente for an interactive weekend storytime featuring The Words Will Come\, a picture book for ages 3–7 that celebrates all the ways children communicate. \nKids will engage through movement\, observation\, and choice\, making the storytime welcoming for every communication style. Caregivers will leave with ideas to support and celebrate their children’s voices. \nThis storytime is especially meaningful during Autism Awareness Month (April) and Speech & Language Development Month\, highlighting inclusion\, empathy\, and understanding for young learners. \nBring your curiosity\, your questions\, and your joy — this storytime is for every child and caregiver ready to explore connection\, patience\, and the power of listening.  Learn more at open_in_newwww.avstorytime.com and follow @av_storytime on Instagram. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-story-time-apolonia-valientes-the-words-will-come/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T170000
DTSTAMP:20260326T184726Z
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SUMMARY:Fort Washington Library: Book Club "A Guardian and a Thief" by Megha Majumdar
DESCRIPTION:The New York Public Library continues partnering with WNYC to present a book club experience! Each month\, we will read a new title leading up to a live conversation\, in-person or online\, with the author and All of It host Alison Stewart. \nThis book club will take place IN PERSON at the Fort Washington Library. \nThe March title is Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief – an electrifying new novel in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other in a city ravaged by climate change and food scarcity. \nIn a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine\, Ma\, her two-year-old daughter\, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate\, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse\, containing their treasured immigration documents\, has been stolen. \nSet over the course of one week\, A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma’s frantic search for the thief while keeping hunger at bay during a worsening food shortage; and the story of Boomba\, the thief\, whose desperation to care for his family drives him to commit a series of escalating crimes whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command\, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families\, each operating from a place of ferocious love and undefeated hope\, each discovering how far they will go to secure their children’s future as they stave off encroaching catastrophe. \nA masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation. \n 
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/fort-washington-library/
LOCATION:Fort Washington Library\, 535 West 179th Street (Between St. Nicholas & Audubon)\, New York\, NY\, 10033
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260401T170000
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park Nature Center: Nature Book Club "The Light Eaters" by Zoe Schlanger
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club \nJoin the Urban Park Rangers for a monthly discussion of a nature-themed book. This month’s book will be The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger. Please have the book read before the meeting! Registration not required. Program will be at Nature Center. \nLocation: West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-nature-center-nature-book-club-the-light-eaters-by-zoe-schlanger/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park Nature Center\, 218th St and Indian Rd. Entrance\, walk north\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Natural History,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T183000
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SUMMARY:Inwood Library: Book Discussion/Diverse Books+Banter: "The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"
DESCRIPTION:Book Discussion Group: Diverse Books + Banter: \nJoin the Inwood Library  to discuss “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid.  This is an IN-PERSON event only. You can register online to secure your seat. \nYou may reserve a physical copy of this book to pick up at a library branch.Copies of the book are currently available for borrowing at the Inwood Library. While supplies last! \nOpen to Adults 18+
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-library-book-discussion-diverse-booksbanter-the-7-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo/
LOCATION:Inwood Library\, 4790 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T170000
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SUMMARY:Washington Heights Library: Book Discussion -- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
DESCRIPTION:Book Discussion Series: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms \nA century before A Game of Thrones\, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros. We will follow their adventures and discuss A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. \nWhether you are an avid George R.R. Martin fan\, read all of A Song of Ice and Fire\, watched House of the Dragon on screen or are completely new to Westeros\, join us for a series of discussions\, coffee and tea and community.  We will begin by discussing the first novella. \nNo registration is required. Following dates to be announced. \nHeights Library\, call for more information or reserve your copy online at nypl.org
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/washington-heights-library-book-discussion-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms/
LOCATION:Washington Heights Library\, 1000 St Nicholas avenue\, NEW YORK\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T183000
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SUMMARY:Inwood Library: Diverse Books + Banter--"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
DESCRIPTION:Diverse Books + Banter: “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury\nJoin the Inwood Library on Thursday\, March 26th from 5:30 – 6:30 PM to discuss: “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. \nThis is an IN-PERSON event only. You can register online to secure your seat. \nYou may reserve a physical copy of this book to pick up at a library branch. Copies of the book are currently available for borrowing at the Inwood Library. While supplies last! \nOpen to Adults 18+
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-library-diverse-books-banter-fahrenheit-451-by-ray-bradbury/
LOCATION:Inwood Library\, 4790 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T140000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T005358Z
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SUMMARY:Fountain Bookshop: Bird Talk and Bird Walk
DESCRIPTION:Author Ryan Goldberg is joining us at the Fountain Bookshop for a discussion about his book and a bird walk in Fort Tryon Park to follow!
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/fountain-bookshop-bird-talk-and-bird-walk/
LOCATION:Fountain Bookshop\, 803 West 187th Street (Between Pinehurst & Fort Washington)\, New York\, NY\, 10040\, United States
CATEGORIES:Natural History,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260308T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260308T170000
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SUMMARY:Recirculation Word Up: Book Swap (A Paging Through the City Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow nyc readers for a book swap hosted at Recirculation\, a project of Word Up! \n​Please bring new or gently used books you are willing to pass along\, and find new-to-you books to take home!  Bring any books—we will have sections set up for different genres to drop off books and look through! \n​This event is ticketed and is pay-what-you-can ($5 minimum). All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Word Up Community to help continue their mission to serve the community in Washington Heights and beyond! \n 
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/recirculation-word-up-book-swap-a-paging-through-the-city-event/
LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Unique Events,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T200000
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Howard Steinberg discussion of his memoir "Confessions of a Problem Seeker"
DESCRIPTION:Word Up welcomes author Howard Steinberg to read and discuss his memoir\, Confessions of a Problem Seeker: My Lifetime Journey From Busy Brain To Loving Heart. \nConfessions of a Problem Seeker is a raw and unflinchingly honest memoir of one man’s midlife reckoning and search to find his soul. As a childhood shaped by trauma and illness gave way to an illusion of adult success and purpose-marriage\, fatherhood\, entrepreneurial achievement-the author finds himself grappling with the unshakable feeling that he has lived a life shaped more by fear and survival instincts than by inner truth. Triggered by divorce\, professional loss\, and a deep inner emptiness\, his search for peace leads him to psychedelics and a spiritual awakening as he begins to heal old wounds\, including the lingering shadows of his Holocaust-survivor parents. He offers a compassionate invitation for others\, particularly those in the second half of life\, to question who they really are beneath their busy identities and to reclaim the joy and stillness of an authentic\, present life. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-howard-steinberg-discussion-of-his-memoir-confessions-of-a-problem-seeker/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T200000
DTSTAMP:20260228T192555Z
CREATED:20260228T192507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260228T192555Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to Screenwriting: 1-Hour Workshop for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nTurn your ideas into scripts. Learn story structure\, free tools\, and your next step. No experience needed. Washington Heights\, NYC. \n\n\n\n\nUPTOWN NYC\, YOUR STORY WON’T WRITE ITSELF \nHave you ever said: \n– “I’ve been meaning to write something…” \n– “I don’t know where to start.” \n– “I have ideas but they live in my head.” \n– “I’m scared I won’t finish.” \nIf any of these sound familiar\, this workshop is for you.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/intro-to-screenwriting-1-hour-workshop-for-beginners/
LOCATION:NoMAA Gallery\, 4140 Broadway (Between 175 & 176 Streets)\, New York\, NY\, 10033\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T200000
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Book Discussion\, Seth Michelson’s HOPE ON THE BORDER
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn conversation with Michelson will be David C. Baluarte\, an immigration attorney and CUNY law professor.  “Heartfelt . . . a surprisingly uplifting call to reform an unjust system.” -Publishers Weekly \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/wordup-recirculation-book-discussion-seth-michelsons-hope-on-the-border/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park - Kids Week: Meet the Critters
DESCRIPTION:Kids Week: Meet the Critters\n\nMonday\, February 16\, 2026\n1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. \n\n\nEven when school’s out\, our parks are still the city’s natural classroom! Bring your kids to parks throughout the city for Kids Week during Mid-Winter Recess. With programs led by our Urban Park Rangers\, kids will get to experience nature in a hands-on and fun way. From stick bugs to snakes\, meet the animals that call the center their home. \n\n\n\nLocation\n\nWest 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park\n\nManhattan\n\nDirections to this location \n\nCost\nFree
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-critters/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park\, 218th St. Entrance\, 600 West 218th St\, New Yok\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Kids Activities,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260214T210000
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Aster(ix)'s This Woman's Work: A Listening Session Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Aster(ix) Journal presents in collaboration with Critical Minded: This Woman’s Work: A Listening Session\nAster(ix) Journal’s upcoming issue is an ode to the women behind the sounds and scene of hip hop and reggaeton. Join us for a reading and dance party to celebrate the launch! \nFeaturing: Carina del Valle Schorske\, Danielle Jackson\, Miles Marshall Lewis\, Sheila Maldonado\, Shamira Ibrahim\, Joseph Earl Thomas\, and guest DJ Christian Mártir \nDoors open 5:30pm | reception 6-9pm | RSVP required  \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-recirculation-asterixs-this-womans-work-a-listening-session-launch-party/
LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T200000
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SUMMARY:Intro to Screenwriting: 1-Hour Workshop for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nTurn your ideas into scripts. Learn story structure\, free tools\, and your next step. No experience needed. Washington Heights\, NYC. \n\n\n\n\nUPTOWN NYC\, YOUR STORY WON’T WRITE ITSELF \nHave you ever said: \n– “I’ve been meaning to write something…” \n– “I don’t know where to start.” \n– “I have ideas but they live in my head.” \n– “I’m scared I won’t finish.” \nIf any of these sound familiar\, this workshop is for you.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/nomaa-intro-to-screenwriting-1-hour-workshop-for-beginners/
LOCATION:NoMAA Gallery\, 4140 Broadway (Between 175 & 176 Streets)\, New York\, NY\, 10033\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Fort Washington Library: WNYC Book Club 'The Emperor of Gladness' by Ocean Vuong IN PERSON
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a neighborhood book club IN PERSON at Fort Washington Branch.  The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community. \nThe January title is Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness\, a novel about chosen family\, unexpected friendship\, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. \nOne late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness\, Connecticut\, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain\, ready to jump\, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina\, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia\, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options\, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year\, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond\, one built on empathy\, spiritual reckoning\, and heartbreak\, with the power to transform Hai’s relationship to himself\, his family\, and a community on the brink. \nFollowing the cycles of history\, memory\, and time\, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love\, labor\, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing—formal innovation\, syntactic dexterity\, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss\, hope\, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. \nJoin our neighborhood book club. Here’s how it works: \nGET THE BOOK Borrow: NYPL Catalog E-Books: Check out this title—and even more NYPL e-books—on your favorite device. Learn more: nypl.org/ebookhelp
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LOCATION:Fort Washington Library\, 535 West 179th Street (Between St. Nicholas & Audubon)\, New York\, NY\, 10033
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation - Barnard Center for Research on Women: The Elsewhere is Black
DESCRIPTION:Join BCRW for an exciting book salon honoring Marisa Solomon’s \nThe Elsewhere is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life! \nJoin us for an exciting book salon in celebration of Barnard Assistant Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies Marisa Solomon’s The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life with J.T. Roane (Geography\, Rutgers) and Mon M.\, moderated by C. Riley Snorton (English & Comparative Literature and ISSG\, Columbia). \nIn The Elsewhere Is Black\, Solomon examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. Tracing the flow of trash and waste across Black spaces\, from Brooklyn’s historically Black Bedford-Stuyvesant to the post-plantation towns of Virginia’s Tidewater\, Solomon contends that waste infrastructures concentrate environmental risk in an elsewhere that is routinely Black. \nShe theorizes the relationship between the devaluation of land and Black and more-than-human life to reveal how the risks of poisoning\, police violence\, dispossession\, and poverty hold Black life captive. Highlighting the creativity and resilience that emerge amid these conditions\, Solomon\, Roane and Monhapatra will invite us to consider collaborative conversations across new eco-political possibilities that center the book’s fundamental ask: What forms of environmentalism arise when Black un/freedom has always been entangled with waste? \nAdditional information is available on the BCRW event page.\nMarisa Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College\, Columbia University\, where she teaches courses in feminist intersectional science studies\, abolitionist ecologies\, Black geographies\, feminist theory and queer of color critique. Her new book\, The Elsewhere is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life (Duke University Press 2025)\, which received Duke University Press’s Scholar of Color First Book Award\, considers ecological politics from the position of criminalized Black dispossession. In so doing\, The Elsewhere Is Black examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism in the U.S. Locating Black survival as a site from which alternative eco-political imaginations spring\, she foregrounds how people live and dream amidst waste’s daily accumulation. Solomon opens new ecological horizons to ask: What forms of environmentalism emerge when Black un/freedom has never been distant from waste? \nShe has written a number of articles on the relationship between waste and Black life including “The Ghetto is a Gold Mine” for the Journal of Labor and Working-Class History and “Ecologies Elsewhere” for GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies\, and “Living with Harm” forthcoming in Scholar and Feminist Online. Her work also appears in a number of edited volumes\, including Waste as Critique (Oxford University Press)\, Black Environmentalisms (forthcoming with Duke University Press)\, The Politics of Disposability: Discard Studies in an Era of Devaluation (also forthcoming with Duke) as well as in a compilation of essays for the 2023 Venice Biennial on Everlasting Plastics. She is currently the director of Barnard’s interdisciplinary Race and Ethnic Studies Minor (ICORE/MORE)\, an editorial board member of Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) and Scholar and Feminist Online and the former co-director of the Black Atlantic Ecologies Working Group at the Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference\, where she was affiliated with the Earth Institute. \nMon M. (they/she) is a spadeworker and propagandist from India\, based in New York City. Mon’s work focuses on challenging and interrupting carceral expansion in the US\, and beyond\, through community and cultural organizing across experiences of gender\, migration\, and disability. Their writing explores internationalist anti-caste and feminist solidarities\, as well as techniques of organizing within and against the scourge of authoritarian violence while resisting reformist and liberal capture. \nC. Riley Snorton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and jointly appointed with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. As a cultural theorist\, his work focuses on racial\, sexual\, and transgender histories and cultural productions in Africa and the Diaspora. He is the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press\, 2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017)\, winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association\, the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association\, the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction\, the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies\, and an honorable mention from the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award Committee. Snorton is a co-editor of Saturation: Race\, Art and the Circulation of Value (MIT Press/New Museum\, 2020) with Hentyle Yapp and The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University Press\, 2024) with Margo Natalie Crawford. He also co-authored the book\, A Black Queer History of the United States (Beacon Press\, 2026) with Darius Bost. Snorton is currently working on his third single-author monograph\, Black Trans Matters\, which extends and proffers theories\, practices\, and material reflections on global black trans life. Working at the conjuncture of Black ecocriticism and trans studies\, Black Trans Matters engages with questions of historicity\, extraction\, representability\, and transformation. \nJ.T. Roane is author of the award winning book Dark Agoras Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU 2023). He is assistant professor of Africana Studies and Geography and co-directs the Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers. Roane serves on the board for an Indigenous and Black led food and environmental justice organization in Virginia’s Tidewater\, Just Harvest. \nCo-sponsored by Barnard’s Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies department.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up: L'heure du conte en français / French Story Time
DESCRIPTION:Word Up Community Bookshop & the French American Academy presents a special story time in French\, led by a FAA teacher. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside. \nWord Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th  St.
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SUMMARY:Sugar Hill Story Hour - Therese Folkes Plair: Once Upon a Winter’s Day…
DESCRIPTION:Therese Folkes Plair: Once Upon a Winter’s Day…\nStep into a snowy world of warm hearts and winter wonders. A snowman with the sniffles\, trees that dream. Music\, fun and a frosty storytelling time. \nSaturday\, January 10th\n11am-12pm
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LOCATION:Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling\, 898 Saint Nicholas Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Robert Snyder's WHEN THE CITY STOPPED with Led Black and Dave Crenshaw
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 6\, 2025 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWord Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria\n2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up welcomes Manhattan Borough Historian Robert W. Snyder to discuss When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers with Uptown civic leaders Led Black and Dave Crenshaw. \n“The real-life experiences of New Yorkers during the COVID-19 outbreak are at the heart of this collection of as-told-to stories. Snyder highlights the actions\, big and small\, that people took to help the city survive\, including medical personnel who collaborated across hospitals to find health-care solutions\, and bus drivers who stayed on their routes.” —The New Yorker \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside. \nWord Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th  St. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn When the City Stopped\, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers\, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months\, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city. New Yorkers were “alone together\,” separated by the protective measures of social distancing and the fundamental inequalities of life and work in New York City. Through their personal accounts\, we see that while many worked from home\, others knowingly exposed themselves to the dangers of the pandemic as they drove buses\, ran subways\, answered 911 calls\, tended to the sick\, and made and delivered meals. \nSnyder builds bridges of knowledge and empathy between those who bore dangerous burdens and those who lived in relative safety. The story is told through the words of health care workers\, grocery clerks\, transit workers\, and community activists who recount their experiences in poems\, first-person narratives\, and interviews. When the City Stopped preserves for future generations what it was like to be in New York when it was at the center of the pandemic. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nRobert W. Snyder is Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University. His books include Crossing Broadway and Transit Talk.
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LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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