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Word Up Community Bookshop: Jacqueline Jimenez Polanco’s SAPPHO EN SANTO DOMINGO

Word Up welcomes Jacqueline Jimenez Polanco to read and discuss Sappho en Santo Domingo: Un poemario lésbico.

Please register in advance.

SOBRE SAPPHO EN SANTO DOMINGO
He 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco is a Full Professor of Sociology at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She holds a Ph.D cum laude in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of several academic books, including Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians, and Los Partidos Políticos en la República Dominicana. She is also the editor of Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century, Divagaciones bajo la luna: Voces e imágenes de lesbianas dominicanas, Divagaciones II: Una antología de mujeres dominicanas lesbianas, bisexuales y queer, y Sexualidades: Entre lo personal y lo político.

Word Up Community Bookshop: Book Talk “SOUP THROWERS AND SUPER GLUERS”

SOUP THROWERS AND SUPER GLUERS – Inside Europe’s Climate Uprising. Four Voices. One Conversation.

Join four European climate activists from the A22 Network for an in-person conversation about direct action, civil resistance, and the future of the climate movement, followed by a workshop. This event is in partnership with the Center for Nonviolent Conflict Research and Sunrise NYC.  The featured book  will be available for purchase and signing.

FEATURING
Carla Hinrichs (climate activist, co-founder and spokesperson for Letzte Generation, Germany)

Henning Jeschke (Climate activist and co-founder of Letzte Generation, Germany)

Chloé Bertini (climate activist from Ultima Generazione, Italy)

Thibaut Cantet (climate activist and co-founder of Dernière Rénovation, France)

ABOUT THE BOOK
The book tells the inside story of the rise of the Last Generation climate movements across Europe, written collectively by the frontline organizers and activists themselves. It takes readers behind the scenes of hunger strikes, motorway blockades, stage and pitch invasions, and media storms: the late-night planning sessions, the internal debates, the moments of doubt, and the decisions that shaped some of the most audacious climate actions of recent years. Drawing on first-hand accounts from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, it is at once a gripping narrative, a strategic reflection, and a deeply human portrait of what it takes—and what it costs—to confront systemic inaction.

Hispanic Society: Feria de Libros with Word Up Community Bookshop

Feria de Libros with Word Up Community Bookshop
Find your next Spanish-language read at the Hispanic Society!

Whether you’re looking for children’s books, YA literature, poetry, or non-fiction, Word Up has it all.

Note: This book fair will take place indoors in our Sorolla Gallery.

Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria is a multilingual, collectively operated bookshop and arts space in Washington Heights, committed to co-creating a place where residents support each other to live informed and expressive lives. Embracing cooperative practices, we champion books and storytelling in all forms to build and sustain a more just world where people can live with dignity and autonomy. We strive to make our neighborhood a resource-rich site for all to grow, learn, and celebrate our heritages.

Inwood Hill Park: Uptown Kid Lit 2026

Uptown Kid Lit is a one-day children’s literature festival in Inwood Hill Park that showcases the fun and possibilities of literature for kids and their adults! Since 2019, the festive and interactive atmosphere has invited children of all ages and backgrounds to explore books, reading, writing, and art. Meet your favorite and soon-to-be-favorite authors and illustrators, get introduced to local youth programs, pick up books and school supplies, and hang out with your neighbors in the park.

Word Up: Emerging Poet Voices – Identity, Memory, and Digital Life

Join poets Rayne Alarcio, AJ DiBetta, Leelah Holmes, Colleen Bąk, and spencer jude perez for an evening of contemporary poetry exploring identity, intimacy, memory, digital culture, and coming-of-age in the twenty-first century. Through lyric, narrative, and spoken word traditions, these emerging writers offer work that reflects on relationships, belonging, self-discovery, and the stories we tell about ourselves. The event will feature readings from each poet, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

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

ABOUT THE POETS
Rayne Alarcio (they/he) is a Filipino American poet from Los Angeles. They are the author of the chapbook Starving the Wolf (Bottlecap Press), which is housed in the Poets House Permanent Collection. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, failbetter, and elsewhere. They have served as a National Writing Juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Learn more at open_in_newwww.raynealarcio.com.

AJ DiBetta is a trans and queer multi-disciplinary creative and graphic designer. They have their BA in Psychology with a minor in Community Engagement. They are a graduate of Shillington School of Graphic Design.

Leelah Holmes (he/they) lives and writes in Brooklyn, generally getting up to no good. You can find his poems in new words {press}, Chariot Press, The Dewdrop, Beyond Words, Touchstone and elsewhere.

Colleen Bąk is a neurodivergent poet and mom of three, who loves exploring the mysteries and magic of family stories, poetry and Houdini. She spent twenty years living in NYC; where after attending NYU for six years, she began attending births, throughout the city’s boroughs (as a doula and a midwife’s assistant) and tending to Houdini’s grave, as one does when they have loved him since childhood. Colleen’s poetry can be found in various anthologies and her previous chapbook breadcrumbs (2022, Bottlecap Press.)

spencer jude perez is an astrologer & poet from The Bronx. spencer jude has served as the president and literary editor on the student-run magazine Cabbages & Kings and has been published in No, Dear.