Join us for an intimate and powerful evening to celebrate “Belonging, On Self: Poems on Dominirican Healing” by Cynthia Roman Cabrera. This collection of poems invites you on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing within the context of the Dominirican experience. Let yourself be captivated as the author reads excerpts, providing insights into the layers of healing explored in the collection, followed by a signing.

Meet other creatives, engage in meaningful conversations, and gain a deeper understanding of the creative process. Enjoy light refreshments, and vegetarian and chicken pastelitos. Don’t miss this literary celebration filled with words, flavors, y comunidad.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside.

Word 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.

ABOUT THE BOOK

belonging, on self: poems on dominirican healing is a collection of poems to heal the inner child of a Dominirican body. It explores the journey toward self-actualization as each poem break open themes of abandonment and abuse, homelessness, coming out, surviving poverty, finding joy, and discovering the self despite the circumstances. At once, the poems are glimpses into one of many New York-born immigrants making sense out of family generational traumas, traversing language barriers, and creating a second skin of island folk tales in new lands. Using vivid place and space as characters, belonging, on self walks with a delicate evolution of self through community with infinite compassion and intimacy. The collection spans across communities in remembrance of the past, its pains, and passes the baton for others to explore healing fuelled by joy and radical self-love.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cynthia Roman Cabrera is a Dominican and Puerto Rican native of New York City. She is a storyteller, essayist, and poet exploring culture and identity, cityscape, familismo, and the healing of her inner child. She has been published in Brooklyn Poets, changing womxn collective, HerStry, Breadcrumbs, Moko Magazine, Spanglish Voces, and the Bronx Magazine.