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Word Up Recirculation: de ir sé que vine: Mell Rivera Díaz in conversation with Gabriel Carle

Thursday, July 11, 2024 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032

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Author & musician Mell Rivera Diaz will read from his poetry book, de ir sé que vine, featuring poems in Spanish and English. The reading will be accompanied by original music, performed by the author. In conversation with Rivera Diaz will be prize-winning author Gabriel Carle.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance. 

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.

Recirculation, 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.

Mell Rivera Díaz (1994, San Juan, Puerto Rico) es poeta, compositor, y estudiante doctoral de Spanish en la Universidad de California, Irvine. Mientras escribe sobre la literatura de la diáspora puertorriqueña para su tesis doctoral, lleva una vida de migración circular entre Irvine, California y Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Gabriel Carle (b. San Juan, 1993) is a writer and academic researching queerness, race, migration, and the environment in Caribbean literatures and cultures. They completed a BA in Escritura Creativa at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University. They are based in New York City.

This project was supported in part by the University of California Office of the President MRPI funding M22PS5863.

Bruce’s Garden Summer Reading Series: Geoff Wisner Reading “A Year of Birds”

Bruce’s Garden Summer Reading Series begins on Wednesday, June 26 at 6:30 when noted Thoreau scholar, Geoff Wisner will read from his newest  book, A Year of Birds. Geoff has researched Thoreau’s careful observations of the natural world for many years. In this book he thoughtfully arranged selections of Henry David Thoreau’s writings on birds by days within year, emphasizing the relationship of birds with their environment and the spiritual significance of the seasons.

The book begins with a foreword by celebrated naturalist Peter Alden, the author of numerous Audubon Field Guides and includes 150 color illustrations by renowned bird artist Barry Van Dusen.

Each year the reading series dedicates a talk to the memory of the noted geologist Sid Horestein (1938-2018). Geoff’s book on Thoreau’s close observations of nature is in keeping with Sid’s insights into our neighborhood’s geological wonders.

UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Mary Annaïse Heglar’s TROUBLED WATERS at Word Up Recirculation

Join us for a reading with Mary Annaïse Heglar for her debut novel Troubled Waters, an intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother coming to terms with what it means to be family, Black women, and alive in a world on fire. In conversation with Heglar will be Kendra Pierre-Louis, an award-winning climate reporter.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.