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Word Up Community Bookshop’s Quinceañera

Word Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria turns 15! Please join us to celebrate our Quinceañera.

  • Poetry from Sheila Maldonado, Araceli Flores, and Miriam Flores.
  • Music from DJ Michou, Collective for Arts Music and Dance, and Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer.
  • Face painting, magic, and art activities for children.
  • Dance lessons.

Afterparty at Word Up Community Bookshop with DJ Delaceiba starting at 8pm.

¡La Librería Comunitaria Word Up cumple 15 años! Acompáñanos para celebrar nuestra Quinceañera.

  • Poesía de Sheila Maldonado, Araceli Flores y Miriam Flores.
  • Música a cargo de DJ Michou, Collective for Arts Music and Dance y Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer.
  • Pintura facial, magia y actividades artísticas para niños
  • Clases de baile.

Fiesta posterior en la Librería Comunitaria Word Up con DJ Delaceiba a partir de las 8 p. m.

Word Up Community Quinceañera After Party

Word Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria turns 15! Please join us to celebrate our Quinceañera.

Afterparty at Word Up Community Bookshop with DJ Delaceiba starting at 8pm.

¡La Librería Comunitaria Word Up cumple 15 años! Acompáñanos para celebrar nuestra Quinceañera.

Fiesta posterior en la Librería Comunitaria Word Up con DJ Delaceiba a partir de las 8 p. m.

Word Up Community Bookshop: New Date June 3rd – Leah Kim’s MOM, UNFILTERED with Frederick Joseph

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.

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

ABOUT THE BOOK
For expecting and new parents, too often the care is so focused on a healthy baby that the mother’s physical and mental needs are overlooked. Mothers face intense pressure to have the perfect birth plan, breastfeed with ease, and immediately bond with their baby. Unfortunately, these expectations can lead to anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Mom, Unfiltered is profoundly personal and brutally honest, yet it is ultimately deeply hopeful. It is about survival and growth, an invitation to move beyond our current social, cultural, and familial realities to support mothers in a meaningful way-physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Word Up Community Bookshop: An Interactive Poetics Writing Workshop with Noel Quiñones

An Interactive Poetics Writing Workshop with Noel Quiñones

This workshop will invite participants to create a dynamic poetic form that requires the reader to participate in the poem.

Inspired by my Noel’s debut poetry collection, Orange (CavanKerry Press, 2026), and background in spoken word, this workshop will invite participants to create a dynamic form that requires the reader to participate in the poem. Together we will read examples of interactive poetry, brainstorm new poetic forms, and write our own poems that require a dynamic exchange between writer and reader.

Noel Quiñones is an Emmy award-winning writer of all genres. Noel is the author of the interactive poetry collection Orange (CavanKerry Press, May 2026) and has been published in Poetry, Boston Review, Poem-a-day, and The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT anthology, as well as the Michigan Quarterly Review, for which they won the 2025 Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize. Noel’s short story “This Time and the Next” will be included in The Best Short Stories 2026: The O. Henry Prize Winners. Noel has also written for, narrated, and acted in several films, including the Emmy nominated documentary Takeover, recounting the Young Lords’ 1970 takeover of Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx to fight for better healthcare. A graduate of the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and founder of Project X, a Bronx-based spoken word poetry organization, Noel is currently a Justice for My Sister BIPOC Sci-Fi Screenwriting Lab Fellow working on their first TV show, The Telescope. Follow Noel at www.noelpquinones.com.

Preorder Orange or get a copy at the event.

Word Up: Story Time — Apolonia Valiente’s “The Words Will Come”

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.

Kids 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.

This storytime is especially meaningful during Autism Awareness Month (April) and Speech & Language Development Month, highlighting inclusion, empathy, and understanding for young learners.

Bring 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.

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