https://www.thewordischange.com/events daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://www.thewordischange.com/events/colleen-asper-to-catch-the-sounds-zine-launch monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a573bd16-2e38-40f7-abae-d7ea90830fec/collee+to+catch+the+sounds+cover.jpg Events - Colleen Asper to catch the sounds zine launch - Join Colleen Asper with artists Katherine Behar and Chang Yuchen, composer Julie Harting, and translator C. Luke Soucy for the launch of to catch the sounds that she can then give back with her own voice. This zine was produced as part of Asper’s exhibition at Baruch’s New Media Artspace of a four-part video which remediates a 2021 performance by Colleen Asper and Julie Harting. The title, drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, describes the limitation imposed on the character Echo—to only speak the last words she hears. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/tfic01zmwwk3hfs36uqez39vlm9w07 monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f2e6deb4-b056-442a-85ab-1c7be5439c7f/raw-zero_FC-768x1152.jpg Events - imogen smith raw & zero poetry launch - A book of transition—poetic, political, religious—and its always radical implications. Occupied with trans spirituality, the genocide in Palestine, and the manifold intricacies of queer love and struggle, the poems in imogen smith’s second collection, raw & zero, open up an unabashedly musical incitement. At the heart of this collection lies the tensions between the philosophical and the erotic. Language unspools throughout long form pieces influenced by concrete poetry, as the poet plays with a sense of shape, space, and symbols. With raw & zero, smith charts medical transition, a budding Islamic practice, and civic resistance, felt in the book’s themes of meaning-making, hope, love, lust, identity, and community alongside personal, regional, and global grief. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/cdc9d493-6a75-4b40-9fea-a48bf61309c3/imogen+2026.jpeg Events - imogen smith raw & zero poetry launch - imogen smith is a poet and transsexual. She is the author of raw & zero and stemmy things, both published by Nightboat Books. They believe in a free Palestine, a borderless world, and trans power. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/spirit-of-jericho-x-prison-lives-matter-study-group monthly 0.5 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/b3485736-1759-4476-a50b-7c743d16e87a/spirit+of+jericho.jpg Events - Spirit of Jericho x Prison Lives Matter Study Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/on-loop-black-sonic-politics-in-oakland-with-alex-werth monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e1c4b887-82b8-475b-85a6-0c5794d45d63/On+Loop+Cover.jpg Events - On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland with Alex Werth - How struggles over Black sound have shaped Oakland’s culture, politics, and geography. On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic politics in recurring struggles over race and space in Oakland, California. Insisting on the centrality of sound in everyday social movements—from the mobilization of funk music and boogaloo dance during Black Power to the policing of the Hyphy movement in the 2000s—Alex Werth argues that Black dance music is not merely a soundtrack to or record of urban resistance. Rather, its very sound waves have animated looping clashes over development, dispossession, and Black freedom. Through studies of downtown nightclubs, Lake Merritt, and the Eastmont Mall—geographies rarely considered, yet critical to Oakland’s culture and politics—Werth reveals how the liberatory sonic politics of funk, hip-hop, and hyphy rap have been met with a repetitive "war on nuisance." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/015fe615-cd61-4b0e-9b7c-52ef3bcac880/Alex+Werth+Author+Photo.jpeg Events - On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland with Alex Werth - Alex Werth is a geographer, movement researcher, and DJ. His work exists at the intersection of anti-displacement organizing, policy advocacy, and public culture. While living for over a decade in the Bay Area, he served as a Curatorial Fellow at the Matatu Festival of Stories, Public Imagination Fellow at Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, and co-curator and resident DJ of Oakland’s Good Culture. In 2018, he worked on Belonging in Oakland, the City of Oakland’s first plan for cultural equity and development in 30 years. His essays have appeared in Africa Is a Country, Antipode, City, FIELD, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Sounding Out. His first book, On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland, came out in 2025 with UC Press. With a PhD in Geography from UC Berkeley, Alex now works as a policy and research consultant specializing in tenants’ rights and housing justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/0403de5e-9eac-4bbf-9b32-db230c340600/Brandi+Headshot+3+Web+Use.jpg Events - On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland with Alex Werth - Dr. Brandi Thompson Summers is an Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia in 2024, Dr. Summers was an Associate Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley. Her research examines the relationship between and function of race, space, urban infrastructure, and architecture. She is the author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City(UNC Press, 2019). Born and raised in Oakland, she recently led the Mellon Foundation–funded Archive of Urban Futures in collaboration with Moms 4 Housing, which was featured in the Black Spaces: Reclaim and Remain exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California. Her forthcoming book, Oakland Echoes: Reimagining and Reclaiming a Black City, is under contract with UC Press. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/llps-the-way-disabled-people-love-each-other monthly 0.5 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4a0208d1-9d23-4c87-86a5-a29d7b42cd11/the+way+disabled+people+love+each+other+cover.jpg Events - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: The Way Disabled People Love Each Other - Please join us as we celebrate the publication of the latest poetry collection by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, the award-winning author of Tonguebreaker, Care Work, and The Future Is Disabled. The Way Disabled People Love Each Other is a fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other, in all our complexity. A book that will speak to any kind of griever, but particularly disabled BIPOC queer trans ones sitting with the endless mass grief and possibility of this time, and those with violent family from whom we still yearn to claw out beauty from the trauma rubble. It's a road map for survivors looking for something that's neither a happy Hollywood ending nor a transformative justice fairy tale - not the healing we wished for, but the healing we find anyway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/267cd781-e62a-42d7-ae5b-c671f1f31590/LLPSauthor_BWupdate-2.jpg Events - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: The Way Disabled People Love Each Other - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (they/them) is the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs; Tonguebreaker; Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (all Arsenal Pulp Press); and Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (AK Press), co-edited with Ejeris Dixon. A Disability Futures Fellow, Lambda and Jeanne Cordova Award winner, five-time Publishing Triangle shortlister, and longtime disabled QTBIPOC space maker, they are currently building Living Altars, a cultural space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers. They live in Philadelphia, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c4d6076d-1b80-4acb-9bb9-613a79be5643/C_Johnson-12-1-300x300.jpg Events - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: The Way Disabled People Love Each Other - Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet from Piscataway, New Jersey. He is the author of SLINGSHOT, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and WATCHNIGHT, winner of the 2023 James Laughlin Award by the Academy of American Poets. Johnson was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and served as the inaugural poet-in-residence at the Brooklyn Public Library. He is a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/soham-patel-the-daughter-industry monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/548349e2-0bed-4e59-a06a-ec249433c1fd/Daughter-Industry_FC-768x1187.jpg Events - Soham Patel The Daughter Industry - The Daughter Industry: A Hauntological Confession, Alternative History, Speculative Autopoetics in Three Acts with Seven Players We are excited to welcome Soham Patel as they launch their new collection (Nightboat), a genre-defying blend of poetry, performance, and political awakening that confronts the transnational crisis of sex-selective elimination. “Poet Soham Patel joins the lineage of Shange, Lorde, and Anzaldúa in creating and naming a new form for womanist truth-telling. And like Zami, Borderlands, or For Colored Girls…this book cuts a new shape, ever-shifting. The Daughter Industry is funny, and swooningly beautiful to read aloud. It’s always surprising: hot, messy, breathing, erotic, laughing/sobbing—fully and fiercely alive in brilliant, heartbreaking realness.”—Brenda Shaughnessy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f32321b7-3fb1-4192-b4e9-0e4a7a35905d/Soham-Patel-March-2017-photo-by-Chuck-Stebelton-scaled.jpg Events - Soham Patel The Daughter Industry - About the authors Soham Patel is the author of The Daughter Industry (Nightboat, 2026), as well as all one in the end/water— (2022), ever really hear it (2018), winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar (2018). They live in Blacksburg, Virginia where they teach at the MFA at Virginia Tech. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5ce9ef43-f93c-4b9c-8e66-099aeb9a4be4/211028_Dawn-193-1.jpg Events - Soham Patel The Daughter Industry - Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of five books of poems: Instructions for The Lovers, Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering, and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, and Best American Essays 2019 and 2021. Martin was the first person to hold the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh where she co-founded and directed the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. She is currently working on memoir titled When a Person Goes Missing, forthcoming from Pantheon Books. She is Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/remakingdemocracy monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/b8761396-9ebc-46eb-acdf-fa1fd6325eda/Screenshot+2026-03-23+at+9.44.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want with Danielle Chynoweth & Elizabeth Adams - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4e4ddb99-03ab-4854-a5ee-c4496b13ee5f/Screenshot+2026-03-23+at+9.43.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want with Danielle Chynoweth & Elizabeth Adams - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/the-long-war-on-iran-with-behrooz-ghamari monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4255e8e5-d72a-41e0-ac89-930d874c3b9a/The+Long+War+on+Iran+CVF+%282%29.jpeg Events - The Long War on Iran with Behrooz Ghamari - In this moment of crisis we are thrilled to welcome Behrooz Ghamari, Iranian historian and scholar who spent three years on death row in the Evin Prison in Iran on Wednesday March 18th at 7pm. In his new book, The Long War on Iran (O/R) Ghamari draws on two decades of political analysis to explore the history of US intervention in the region, focusing on the enduring sanctions imposed on Iran and the persistent perception of the Islamic Republic as a major obstacle to American power. Despite the repressive policies of the state, Iran has remained a vibrant society with active intellectual, cultural, and social justice movements. The book examines these internal changes and shifts in Iranian politics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1cf9378a-3c1e-4940-b7a1-39f6b3e117d1/behroozghamari-author-photo-bw.jpg Events - The Long War on Iran with Behrooz Ghamari - Behrooz Ghamari is affiliated with the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University from 2020 to 2024. He is the author of three books on different aspects and historical context of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and its aftermath: Islam and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Iran; Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment; and Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/singing-for-our-lives monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e37e1d3c-73f3-4f51-9931-469d9749a9f6/IMG_0078.jpg Events - Singing for Our Lives - Please join Annabelle Heckler and Laleña Garcia for a Story Hour, Sunday March 8th at 2pm, to celebrate the publication of Sing For Our Lives and International Women’s Day. Young people and grown ups, bring each other to read a new zine and sing together because there’s power in a union. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/backstitch-with-marian-mitchell-donahue monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a52dfc26-c797-4dfd-b837-5fda3d9c27f5/backstich2.jpeg Events - Backstitch with Marian Mitchell Donahue - "Backstitch is a splendid, irreducible work of art—about making art, about time, about memory, about the stars in the heavens, and maybe most of all about family." —Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers Two sisters, Violet and Marigold, reunite at a retrospective of their troubled mother's art. Together they must confront the consequences of her ambition and the difficult, private reality of the family's public narrative. Moving through the gallery's rooms and through time to arrive at the truth of her life and death, the daughters unravel their family ties, the gift and cost of artistic talent, and the legacy that they must carry. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/jista0426 monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/533186fe-cab7-4179-9520-7a46cdf744d8/JITSA+-+2026_3_26+-+flyer+-+Update.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/solidarity-with-children-madeline-lane-mckinley monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ae0e6f4b-3b60-447e-88d4-c8a69c107e3a/Solidarity+With+Children_final+cover.jpg Events - Solidarity with Children Madeline Lane-McKinley - We live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in the genocide in Palestine, the fascist targeting of trans children, and the blatant disregard for the lives of migrant children crossing borders and oceans. It is a world in which climate catastrophe has become the new normal, in which children’s futures are by no means assured. What we need, feminist writer and scholar Madeline Lane-McKinely argues, is a politics of solidarity with children, one that sees children as comrades in our struggle for a better future. Blending personal and political reflection with cultural analysis, Lane-McKinley examines the history of childhood as a system of private property in capitalism, showing how the idea of the child has been weaponized in the service of white supremacy and empire. She disentangles motherhood from the act of caregiving, tracing the possibilities of revolutionary mothering. And she critiques the parents’ rights movement and imagines what education might look like outside schools, considering how we might center children as we challenge the strictures of the nuclear family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/200be8b0-0b22-4e21-8104-31a31dec9d34/Madeline+Lane-McKinley_author+photo.png Events - Solidarity with Children Madeline Lane-McKinley - Madeline Lane-McKinly is a feminist writer, parent, and teacher based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times and Dear Z, the coauthor of Fag/Hag, and an editor for Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, and Protean Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d349cad4-a15e-4735-9680-b88d94d99bcb/IMG_0038.jpg Events - Solidarity with Children Madeline Lane-McKinley - Jo Aurelio Giardini is from Vancouver, and teaches Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College. They are working on two book projects: Separations: Communalist and Alter-Urban Imaginaries in 1970s American Literature; and Generic Operations: Gender Identity from Clinic to Culture. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/visioning-new-worlds monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6e348ad9-147a-41ac-9774-0c9884e217f1/radical+imagination.png Events - Visioning New Worlds - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/some-upcoming-events monthly 0.5 2026-03-28 https://www.thewordischange.com/events/love-letters-1 monthly 0.5 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a71385a1-a817-4783-8b88-0cfa40cf0fdd/Untitled_Artwork.jpeg Events - Love Letters - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/black-abstractions-a-poetry-reading monthly 0.5 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/612a3761-3376-476b-aa86-fc66c22ff948/Black+Abstractions Events - Black Abstractions: A Poetry Reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/b3ae9454-6d1a-41b1-be46-903d7552ec18/Screenshot+2026-01-19+at+11.15.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Black Abstractions: A Poetry Reading - Dylan Gilbert (she/her) is a Brooklyn based poet, editor, curator, and educator from the Midwest. She holds her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and is a founding member of Saltlick Collective. Her work often deals with grief, girlhood, Blackness, and lineage. Dylan’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Maine Review, Black Warrior Review, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/debe818e-a24e-41f2-8177-95c84ac49f5b/Screenshot+2026-01-19+at+11.15.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Black Abstractions: A Poetry Reading - Kindall Gant (she/they) is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim, and Ma’s House among other arts institutions. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears in Seedlings, TORCH, 1619 Speaks, Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Society of New York’s Milk Press, and Obsidian. Their book The Harlem Table is forthcoming from Phaidon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f87b1334-70ca-4543-86f4-f01895a120cb/Screenshot+2026-01-19+at+11.15.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Black Abstractions: A Poetry Reading - Tangie Mitchell (she/her) is a poet from North Carolina. Her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South and has been featured in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, No, Dear, Poetry Wales, Mosaic and more. She is a 2024 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, a Water Hole fellow, and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1e895da6-2cff-4061-a5bd-bf34c2cefc51/Screenshot+2026-01-19+at+11.16.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Black Abstractions: A Poetry Reading - Nicole Alexander (she/her) is a poetess and educator based in Brooklyn. She graduated from Syracuse University in 2020, earning a BA in English and textual studies with a concentration in creative writing. During the warmer months, Nicole writes personalized poems for strangers in NYC parks for her social art project, A Poem, From Me To You. Her chapbook, Why I Love Dreaming, was released in 2024. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/steff-reed monthly 0.5 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/42c62ab5-cb96-423f-81b5-44a0a47511d4/We+Pray+Freedom+cover.jpeg Events - We Pray Freedom: Prayers, Songs, and Organizing for Liberation  - You're invited to join The Word is Change and the Kairos Center for this in-person book event for We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor. Together, we’ll gather for an evening of healing, remembrance, and collective action—lifting up the prayers, songs, and rituals that sustain our movements for justice. A book of prayers, rituals, and liturgies that grows out of communities committed to abolishing poverty. Prayer has long sustained movements for social change. Ritual gives shape to our desire for justice, and liturgy lends power to our work. In We Pray Freedom, we learn from activists and movement builders the songs, stories, and ritual practices that keep them going for the long haul. The Freedom Church of the Poor, called for by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has existed in many forms; today it includes laborers, poor folks, pastors, organizers, and others bound together by a conviction: It does not have to be this way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/cc9a658c-cbed-4dc7-ab32-2c92f77b2b9a/Jesus+Was+a+Poor+Man.jpg Events - We Pray Freedom: Prayers, Songs, and Organizing for Liberation  - Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is a theologian, pastor, author, and anti poverty activist. She is the Executive Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Rev. Dr. Theoharis has been organizing in poor and low-income communities for the past 30 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6ccbc500-8541-4c0c-b949-8c45b83fe617/Charon_April8_2.JPG Events - We Pray Freedom: Prayers, Songs, and Organizing for Liberation  - Dr. Charon Hribar is a song leader, cultural organizer, and social ethicist. She serves as the director of cultural strategies for the Kairos Center and co-director of theomusicology and movement arts for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. With more than two decades of experience, Dr. Hribar empowers leaders to integrate rituals and arts into organizing efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e8d2ccac-7250-4aed-8694-6f626fe1d57a/Steff+1.jpg Events - We Pray Freedom: Prayers, Songs, and Organizing for Liberation  - Steff Reed is a musician, organizer, and scholar whose work bridges art, activism, and healing. A proud Black man and compassionate leader, he models emotional vulnerability as a form of strength and community power. With over 20 years of experience, Steff is a GRAMMY-nominated educator and Billboard-charting artist. Steff is currently a graduate student at Union Theological Seminary pursuing a Master of Sacred Theology (STM). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9e22b8a2-656a-47c5-9dbe-37c62db841a4/Andrew+Wilkes.JPG Events - We Pray Freedom: Prayers, Songs, and Organizing for Liberation  - Dr. Rev. Andrew Wilkes is the cofounding, colead pastor of Double Love Experience (DLE), a Brooklyn congregation dedicated to the liberating ministry of Jesus Christ. DLE advances God’s love and justice through worship, education, organizing, and radical discipleship. He is the author of Plenty Good Room and Psalms for Black Lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f926d52a-8ed3-4cc0-9484-b7cb8db6d8d5/ana+g.+lara+lopez_CIW+March.jpg Events - We Pray Freedom: Prayers, Songs, and Organizing for Liberation  - ana lara lopez is the Coordinator of Freedom Church of the Poor Care & Engagement for the Kairos Center. Born in Antigua, Guatemala, Ana has lived in various places that shaped her worldview. She holds a BA in Sociology/Anthropology and an MDiv in Spiritual Care & Collective Liberation. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/sink-or-burn-with-cristy-road-carrera monthly 0.5 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8a122716-3387-4660-992d-bd68b760eb09/C.Roads+flyer.jpg Events - Sink or Burn with Cristy Road Carrera - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/88eb77e6-df03-446b-abf7-de30147a7298/reading+on+tour.jpg Events - Sink or Burn with Cristy Road Carrera - Eternal rabble rouser Cristy Road Carrera is a first generation Cuban-American artist, writer and musician. Blending anti-fascist principles with survival love stories—Road has spent over twenty-five years testifying to the beauty of the imperfect. Her career began in 1996 with a self-published punk rock fanzine, sparking decades of illustrations for music, literature and social movements. Forging an imprint in queer, feminist counter cultures with graphic memoirs, illustrated novels, and punk rock records; Carrera redefined her career in 2019 with the release of the Next World Tarot, a tarot card deck that envisions a world based on radical re-definitions of self-love and social justice. Carrera has been fronting punk rock bands since her days of self-publishing fanzines. She currently performs her songs as Choked Up, making records and playing shows with the ancient punk rock ethos of passion before profit. Engaging with her world anywhere from Yale University to Bluestockings Bookstore, Carrera continues to thrive on the fringe of the mainstream, and the epicenter of revolution. She is a gemini and works and lives in NYC and Miami. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/tamara-on-bricks monthly 0.5 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f3049842-beb3-4537-8767-19231f03d2b1/brickbeach.jpg Events - Earthen Weapon: Brick Threats and Promises with Tamara Santibañez - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1ce1116e-296c-41ca-aa94-f72da9405b66/Screenshot+2025-12-18+at+11.30.49%E2%80%AFAM.png Events - Earthen Weapon: Brick Threats and Promises with Tamara Santibañez - Tamara Santibañez is an interdisciplinary artist and oral historian based in Brooklyn, New York. Their practice employs storytelling, archival research, tattooing, and craft-based sculptural techniques to interrogate the ways in which hostile architectures, borders, and coded languages are re/produced and re/interpreted on the body. They are the author of Could This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Workand the poetry chapbook Memory Lane. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-in-the-soft-apocalypse-2 monthly 0.5 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ce5d2d33-79c7-4f45-8511-7a5d9ca29270/JITSA+-+2026_1_29+-+flyer+.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/uche-nduka-erica-miriam-fabri monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4900f981-5e58-4744-b98b-7bb01c5a9008/UcheNduka-ToUmberFRONTCOVER.jpg+copy.jpg Events - Uche Nduka & Erica Miriam Fabri - We are pleased to welcome Uche Nduka, as he returns to Brooklyn with a new collections of poems To Umber, and Erica Miriam Fabri for her new collection Morphology “‘Uche Nduka has long established himself as a master of the short, gnomic, aphoristic poem. In To Umber, he has woven strings of three- and four-line bursts of verbal melody into long tapestries of urban music. An “archaeologist at the mall,” “wary of world-weariness,” Nduka braids florilegia of observation and longing, jazzy micro-solos of dismay, desire, and delight. These poems are snappy, sassy, veering from high theory to low innuendo; they are shot through with a constant dark undercurrent of the crisis of the body politic, of the world as a whole—but warm with “a wild sort of tenderness,” alive with joy at “the fullness / Of the music of fuchsia.” —Mark Scroggins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ff3d71fb-6119-42ad-8ee3-704a1603e6de/morphology.webp Events - Uche Nduka & Erica Miriam Fabri - "Where love meets language—a stunning exploration of bodies, both present and vanished" Morphology, by definition, is the study of the forms of words and bodies. In her second book, Erica Miriam Fabri uses the formation of words—molded into poems—to celebrate and mourn various forms of bodies. The bodies featured as main characters in this collection include lovers, family members, children, ghosts, rats, jellyfish, skeletons, and snakes. While this book of poetry is set mostly in New York City, it also journeys to far-flung destinations such as outer space, the deep sea, and the afterlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/67dcadaf-682b-413b-b60c-f2cf7a2a6ed9/uche.png Events - Uche Nduka & Erica Miriam Fabri - Uche Nduka is a poet-pilgrim, collagist, and essayist presently living in New York City. He is the author of 14 volumes of poems of which the latest are Scissorwork (Roof Books, 2022) and Bainbridge Island Notebook (Roof Books, 2023). A NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, his writing has been translated into Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Arabic, Dutch, German, Serbo-Croat, Romanian. His essays on music, poetry, mortality, politics, and travel have appeared in various online and print outlets. He teaches at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and Queens College-CUNY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6b2db281-c143-454d-b0ad-86ae89679ee5/ericafabri.headshot_blue.jpg.webp Events - Uche Nduka & Erica Miriam Fabri - Erica Miriam Fabri is a poet and the author of two books: Morphology (Write Bloody Publishing, 2025) and Dialect of a Skirt (Hanging Loose Press, 2010). She has been widely published and worked on projects as a writer or editor for The New York Knicks, Urban Word NYC, HBO, and Nickelodeon Television. She teaches at Pace University and The College of Staten Island. She is also a Freelance Photographer, a New Yorker, and a Mama. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/be-the-revolution-jay-ponti monthly 0.5 2025-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/0450e87c-0ef9-4dda-89c9-0861fab82f03/Betherevolution+cover.jpeg Events - Be the Revolution: Jay Ponti - Please join us December 28th for an evening of conversation, community, and movement-building. The event will feature a reading from Be The Revolution: How Occupy Wall Street and the Bernie Sanders Movement Reshaped American Politics, followed by a panel discussion focusing on “Why the left keeps losing, and what it will take to defeat fascism and stop the climate apocalypse.” in discussion with Stanley Fritz (Vera Institute of Justice) and Antonio “Tony” Rosario (Teamsters Local 804) https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-in-the-soft-apocalypse-1 monthly 0.5 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/7c8d0091-fd15-4754-909f-8ca6e36db8e6/image0.jpeg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/yeet-poetry-launch-with-jason-b-crawford monthly 0.5 2025-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/66ed13d0-dd68-4ea9-bda5-88708537d959/yeet+cover.jpeg Events - YEET! Poetry Launch with jason b crawford - Afrofuturist poetry that envisions Black people finding new worlds of freedom. Following the traditions of Eve L. Ewing, Rio Cortez, and Douglas Kearney, jason b. crawford’s YEET! envisions the Black community lifted off the earth and set free towards the stars. These poems ask what a free Black people would look like and how we might achieve such a thing. This collection presents a new take on Afrofuturism and utopianism. Rather than looking to a future of technological change, it steps years ahead to show how people are happier once they are no longer owned. These poems speak to racism, gun violence, colonization, global warming, flight, joy, friendship, and noise. This is a book about creating new worlds without the systems of supremacy that held down the old one. YEET! is the winner of the 2023 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest, chosen by Sawako Nakasayu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/900a27f6-601a-4968-ac79-d8493625578d/img-0064_orig+%281%29.jpg Events - YEET! Poetry Launch with jason b crawford - About the poets jason b. crawford (He/They) born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published Fall 2025. They have been published in Poetry Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, among others. They are a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Literary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/84ffd54b-ac20-4f83-86e7-e3390d93b0a5/CarsonDHeadshot.JPG Events - YEET! Poetry Launch with jason b crawford DeeSoul Carson is a poet & educator and hosts the O, Word? podcast. A Stanford alum, his work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, & elsewhere. For his work, DeeSoul has received a National Endowment for the Arts and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027. Find more of his work at deesoulpoetry.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/add37908-dda0-4620-bd97-cfeed2e597c1/Jaysonpsmith.webp Events - YEET! Poetry Launch with jason b crawford Jayson P. Smith is a poet, performance artist, curator & educator from the Bronx. Most recently a 2024 Hawthornden Brooklyn Writer in Residence, J's poetry has received support from NYFA, The Poetry Project, and Callaloo, among others. Recent poems have been published in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, field meridians, & html.review. Their performance work has been featured at JACK, Center for Performance Research, and The Guggenheim. Jayson founded NOMAD Readings in 2016, which they continue to host and curate. Jayson is currently a dancer with J. Bouey Dance Projects & Asę Dance Theater. Find them at www.jaysonpsmith.com. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/police-against-the-movement monthly 0.5 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/60be1116-56b0-4e9c-821a-32560541b4e5/Police+Against+the+Movement+cover.webp Events - Police Against the Movement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/97b085e3-b396-465c-941f-93e0a80d0564/Joshua+Clark+Davis+photo.webp Events - Police Against the Movement - Joshua Clark Davis is an associate professor of U.S. history at the University of Baltimore and the author of Police Against The Movement and From Head Shops to Whole Foods His research has earned awards from the Fulbright Program, the Silvers Foundation, and the NEH Public Scholars Program. I've written for The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate, Jacobin, and The Washington Post, and my work has been highlighted in The New York Times, CNN, and Time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/81f8a93a-1f23-477c-87b0-0ba529d44d80/photo-chenjerai-kumanyika.jpg Events - Police Against the Movement - Chenjerai Kumanyika Alongside his scholarship and teaching, disciplinary service on the intersections of social justice and media, Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing. He has written in scholarly venues such as Popular Music & Society, Popular Communication, The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, as well as public venues such as The Intercept, Transom, NPR Codeswitch, All Things Considered, Invisibilia, and VICE. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/the-encampments-screeningdiscussion monthly 0.5 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/fa5d6b78-0606-4c75-958d-cffd318ba045/the+encampments.jpg Events - The Encampments Screening+Discussion - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-james-with-jasmine-araujo monthly 0.5 2025-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/38cefe85-b431-47d2-a26e-bb5283ffe8a2/tempImage0RngUW.jpg Events - DATE TBA Joy James in conversation with Jasmine Araujo - Join us for an evening of radical dialogue and political education with Dr. Joy James and Jasmine Araujo, presented by the Institute for Anarchist Studies on Tuesday (yes Tuesday), October 14th at 7pm. Drawing on the recently published Confronting Counterinsurgency and Beyond Cop Cities, the discussion will address how organizers can move forward under increasing fascism and how we can stick past anarchist history to this present political movement. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/reading-plus-cake-with-mary-paula-hunter-mph monthly 0.5 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/42847d4d-fb06-409a-8b76-ba8b4f4d8ad4/book+and+cake.jpg Events - Reading plus cake with Mary Paula Hunter (MPH) - Please join us for a reading by performance artist Mary Paula Hunter (MPH) from her new book Can I Have a Hug First And you won’t want to miss the cake made by Peter Hunter Meckel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8712c581-bd5d-493f-a9e9-54f9c3704599/MPH+with+cake.jpg Events - Reading plus cake with Mary Paula Hunter (MPH) - Mary Paula Hunter is a writer living in Providence, Rhode Island. She received early praise for her writing when as a dancer and choreographer, she told stories about her eccentric Midwestern family while she danced. Laurie Stone, in the now-defunct VILLAGE VOICE wrote that Mary Paula’s writing was brilliant. Jennifer Dunning in THE NEW YORK TIMES also praised her hybrid work, especially the honest storytelling. Finally the writing won out… although she still creates dances (mainly in her kitchen), and works on performance art projects. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/duvall-shelley-by-laura-henriksen-book-launch monthly 0.5 2025-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8acdd55d-f006-4d11-a46c-55908d6bd3b6/IMG_7746.jpg Events - Duvall, Shelley by Laura Henriksen Book Launch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/b93824b9-4814-45bc-ba52-0cb64bb67b15/IMG_7748.jpg Events - Duvall, Shelley by Laura Henriksen Book Launch - An overlap of place, a link in times, Laura Henriksen’s Duvall, Shelley is an invitation to come over, to watch a movie, to hold a seánce that calls on a star. A lyric reflection on desire, decay, resurrection and survival. An index for monsters and their fans. . Laura Henriksen is the author of Laura’s Desires (Nightboat, 2024) and Duvall, Shelley (Newest York, 2025). Her writing can be found in LitHub, shitwonder, and other places. She lives in Bed-Stuy, Lenapehoking and teaches writing at Pratt Institute. She worked for a long time at the Poetry Project. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/leopoldina-fortunati-and-sarah-leonard monthly 0.5 2025-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f641d122-f48f-4fa1-ac19-7e114b8b279e/Word+is+Change+Announcement+Draft.jpg Events - Leopoldina Fortunati and Sarah Leonard - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/never-mind-gaza-with-yahya-ahsour monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9d97e686-6b0a-4193-b8c5-290f703ad7e9/Never+Mind+Gaza.jpg Events - Never Mind Gaza with Yahya Ahsour - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/33e3d240-c8b1-4871-bc4b-8206c8b15cf5/IMG_7495.jpg Events - Never Mind Gaza with Yahya Ahsour - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/0decb332-5315-4723-81bf-46175133df3c/IMG_7496.jpg Events - Never Mind Gaza with Yahya Ahsour - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/brooklyn-book-festival monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a960e0de-f57f-4b31-9950-b7c9e05f284a/BKBF2025-Footer-768x306-1.png Events - Brooklyn Book Festival - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-in-the-soft-apocalypse monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3971e0b9-377c-4c7c-a5b6-3ffb1230da90/JITSA+-+2025_09_25+-+flyer.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/new-york-city-anarchist-bookfair monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5afd598a-906a-4742-8044-0a7f47264a89/nyc.abf.jpg Events - New York City Anarchist Bookfair - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/the-weather-report-andrew-ross monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e2cbfceb-a12e-4e36-a7ba-3fe6da3c1249/9781945335440_TheWeatherReport_FC.webp Events - The Weather Report: Andrew Ross - From acclaimed public scholar Andrew Ross, groundbreaking reporting on climate change and the horizons of a just future from Palestine, UAE, Arizona, and China. We are pleased to celebrate the publication of Andrew Ross’s newest book, The Weather Report, on Sunday, September 14th. Andrew will be joined by Ashley Dawson and Jaskiran Dhillion for a wide-ranging conversation that seeks to reveal the mutual aid projects seeking to provide care in the faces of climate crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e756cd5e-4af2-4de7-964b-b348b2ad8348/Screenshot+2025-09-04+at+11.31.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - The Weather Report: Andrew Ross - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/on-microscism-reading-group-2 monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6a5bd13e-473f-46bc-b272-1de8062c9a7b/on+microfascism+cover.jpg Events - On Microfascism reading group (session “one”) - How is fascist subjectivity produced and how might we sabotage this production process? These are the questions we will explore in our reading of On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death, which offers a compelling account of the diffuse cultural forces that form the building blocks of later fascist movements and state power. MAGA may have its billionaire backers, but what remains to be explained is why the call to “Make America Great Again” inspired so many. Here’s the intro for session one! https://www.thewordischange.com/events/ben-gantcher-reading monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2deb5d3f-b834-4308-a112-ca70daae22a6/IMG_7264.jpg Events - Ben Gantcher, Maggie Dubris, Brendan Lorber, Jeffrey Joe Nelson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-james-in-conversation-with-steff-reed monthly 0.5 2025-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/7c6235db-78cd-4e1d-9c68-6a400416e76f/Joy+James+Aug+25jpg.jpg Events - Joy James in conversation with Steff Reed - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/alex-egan-chapbook-launch monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4a474f28-6f38-4be6-afbc-869ba6ea6ddf/IMG_6999.jpg Events - Alexandra Egan chapbook launch with Anna Gurton-Wachter & Mirene Arsanios - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/on-microscism-reading-group monthly 0.5 2025-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6a5bd13e-473f-46bc-b272-1de8062c9a7b/on+microfascism+cover.jpg Events - On Microfascism reading group kick off with Jack Z. Bratich - How is fascist subjectivity produced and how might we sabotage this production process? These are the questions we will explore in our reading of On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death, which offers a compelling account of the diffuse cultural forces that form the building blocks of later fascist movements and state power. MAGA may have its billionaire backers, but what remains to be explained is why the call to “Make America Great Again” inspired so many. Here’s the intro for session one! https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsjul25 monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4233c012-67bb-4101-b96f-596fd15416ce/gatt_iss_2_cover_web.png Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) Two articles from Going Against the Tide - Rescheduled date fro,m last month (due to downpours) On August 28th the Radical Book Club Meetings facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC will be discussing two articles from Going Against the Tide: A Journal Charting a Path for Communist Revolution in the US. You do not have to have read the articles to attend, but, of course, it’s great if you have. Copies are available at the store. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/out-not-up-with-art-workers-inquiry monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2666e84b-5cf4-4c32-b045-b4205cd4ffa9/Hot+Event.jpg Events - Out Not Up with Art Workers' Inquiry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/scene-heard-vol-4 monthly 0.5 2025-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/be878de8-5c63-4bf8-9e43-de85b6b7d42c/Scene+and+heard.jpg Events - Scene & Heard Vol 4 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/hombrecito-pb-launch-with-hoes-for-prose monthly 0.5 2025-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/737da58e-fa4e-4020-89ec-e25bdb08c091/Hombrecito.jpg Events - Hombrecito Paperback Launch with Hoes for Prose - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c28c5ad8-c23a-43f7-8069-bc430789b02a/hombrecito+cover.jpg Events - Hombrecito Paperback Launch with Hoes for Prose - In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy's life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami. In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/freedom-zines-zine-launch monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2f7ddce6-b39e-4e55-b30c-50ceb3d9267b/Zine+Launch-+Freedom+Zines.jpg Events - Freedom Zines (zine launch) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/298407a9-2943-4537-8a37-fcb361c5788d/Faculty-Chy-Sprauve.jpg Events - Freedom Zines (zine launch) - Hosted by Chy Sprauve Chy Sprauve is a scholar in Composition-Rhetoric currently working as an Assistant Professor of Black, Race and Ethnic Studies in the English department at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse-0625 monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9369e186-e1a8-4179-a382-d3651bd79205/JITSA+-+2025_06_12+-+flyer+.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse vol. VIII - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/cops-out-of-the-art-world monthly 0.5 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/894e25a6-bab0-4858-b47c-df9db3fc6847/Cops+out+of+the+art+world.jpg Events - Cops Out of the Art World - Join the Art Workers’ Inquiry to celebrate the launch of their new zine Cops Out of the Art World. This publication gathers research on the links between arts institutions and policing by art workers committed to abolition. The launch will include readings from contributors, followed by the opportunity to join in an inquiry investigating strategies to organize against deportation. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/born-in-flames-with-for-our-liberation monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9e77de7a-8bd8-4be4-91bf-d6b49efda3c8/BornInFlames+copy.jpg Events - Born In Flames with For Our Liberation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/sarah-aziza-the-hollow-half monthly 0.5 2025-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ab24c8d3-e8ff-4210-bddc-0ff8d5ae2dc3/The+Hollow+Half+by+Sarah+Aziza+%28book+cover%29.jpg Events - Sarah Aziza: The Hollow Half - A brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza’s searing, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back “You were dead, Sarah, you were dead.” In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza’s crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e7404b1d-28cf-4007-973e-fe090b48ebd8/Sarah+Aziza+author+photo+%28c%29+Natasha+Jahchan+%E2%80%94+final+book.JPG Events - Sarah Aziza: The Hollow Half - Sarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half, a genre-bending work of memoir, lyricism, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora, colonialism, and the American dream. Sarah’s award-winning journalism, poetry, essays, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Mizna, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Nation, among other publications. www.sarahaziza.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/08e047bd-a47a-4505-9b0a-bfb79ea383a3/NYAF+Horizontal+Logo+-+Black.png Events - Sarah Aziza: The Hollow Half - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/jennifer-kabat-nightshining monthly 0.5 2025-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/87d2123d-3e73-41f5-9f6b-d415da65b99b/nightshining.jpg Events - Jennifer Kabat: Nightshining - A propulsive, layered examination of the conflict between the course of nature and human legacies of resistance and control. Floods, geoengineering, climate crisis. Her first year in Margaretville, New York, Jennifer Kabat wakes to a rain-swollen stream and her basement flooding. As she delves into the region’s fraught environmental history, it becomes clear that this is far from the first—and hardly the worst—disaster in the region. Tracing connections across time, she uncovers Cold War weather experiments, betrayals of the Mohawk Nation, and an unlikely cast of characters, including Kurt Vonnegut’s older brother, Bernard—all reflected through grief brought on by her father’s recent passing. Inquisitive and experimental, Nightshining uses place as a palimpsest of history. With lyrical incision, Kabat mirrors her own life experience and the essence of being human—the cosmos thrumming in our bodies, connecting readers to the land around us and time before us. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joshua-clover-memorial-poetry-reading monthly 0.5 2025-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/082bc270-4477-4461-aaca-988345ac0ec3/joshuaclover.jpg Events - Joshua Clover Memorial Poetry Reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/black-study-and-catastrophe monthly 0.5 2025-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4b7fdc6b-b71d-44d9-bfea-a0ac210bd40b/black+study+catastrophe.jpg Events - Black Study and Catastrophe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a0045e77-568e-4695-917e-ae1bdd757fbf/bedour_alagraa.jpg Events - Black Study and Catastrophe - A self-described ‘wayward political theorist’, Dr. Bedour Alagraa is Assistant professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently co-editor, alongside Anthony Bogues, of the ‘Black Critique’ book series at Pluto Press. More broadly, Dr. Alagraa is interested in Black radical genealogies in political theory, history/ies of political concepts, Caribbean thought, African anti-colonial thought, and Black Marxism(s) (among other topics). She has also studied and written extensively on the works of Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter and, alongside Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., is editing a volume of Chairman Fred Hampton’s speeches. The Interminable Catastrophe (forthcoming Duke) charts a conceptual history of catastrophe as a political category/concept (rather than Event), via its inauguration in early modern natural science and empiricist debates, and subsequent crystallization as a concept on the plantation. The Interminable Catastrophe also considers how we might interrupt the 'Bad Infinity” of the catastrophic, via the work(s) of Sylvia Wynter, Kamau Brathwaite, Clyde Woods, Derek Walcott, and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/14867429-b161-4f23-96d5-68c9fb7dcc3d/joshua+myers.jpeg Events - Black Study and Catastrophe - A central thread that guides all of Joshua Myers’s work is an approach to knowledge that takes seriously that peoples of African descent possess a deep sense of reality, a thought tradition that more than merely interprets what is around us, but can transform and renew these spaces we inhabit—a world we would like to fundamentally change. Joshua M. Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He is the author of Holy Ghost Key, the winner of the 2023 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize (Broadside Lotus Press, 2024), Of Black Study (Pluto, 2023), Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition (Polity, 2021), and We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019), as well as the editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. His research interests include Africana intellectual histories and traditions, Africana philosophy, musics, and foodways as well as critical university studies, and disciplinarity. His work has been published in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Washington History, The Journal of Academic Freedom, The Journal of African American Studies, The Journal of Pan African Studies, The African Journal of Rhetoric, The Human Rights and Globalization Law Review, Downbeat, The New Inquiry , Pambazuka, Obsidian, and Burning House Press, among other literary spaces. He serves on the board of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and the SNCC Legacy Project and is the senior content producer at the Africa World Now Project. He was the co-coordinator of the SNCC Legacy Project’s Black Power Chronicles Oral History Project and organizes with Washington DC’s Positive Black Folks in Action. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of The Compass: Journal of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, Siyabonana: The Journal of Africana Studies, and The Journal of Black Studies. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/may-events monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/487f8a4b-46f4-49f7-b90c-530eb4c0fc05/may+events+full.jpg Events - May Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsapr25 monthly 0.5 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/44e3f2a5-3d7e-4430-bc3c-7ba7dcbbcc16/tip+of+the+spear.jpg Events - Tip of the Spear: Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. On April 24th the Radical Book Club Meetings facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC will be discussing Tip of the Spear by Orisanmi Burton and write Birthday Greetings to Mumia Abu-Jamal. You do not have to have read the book to attend, but, of course, it’s great if you have. Copies are available at the store. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/brooklyn-bookstore-crawl-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/0db6938c-62f9-4527-ba6f-a756b6c79078/2023.bookstore-crawl.brooklyn-cut-out.digital.png Events - Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl 2025 Save the dates and get ready to pick up your passport and see how many of the 26 amazing bookstores in Brooklyn participating you can visit. More details about special events coming soon, but you can check out the list of stores and start planning your route. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse-6-wwn39 monthly 0.5 2025-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f4782a41-7d45-4afb-9ca8-3c9b2ec62946/JITSA+-+2025_04_17.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse vol. VII - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/martnez-leyva-pinto-windholz monthly 0.5 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5e61bc9a-ef9b-4faf-b4ae-af1e56153160/cowboy+park.jpeg Events - Eduardo Martínez-Leyva // Megan Pinto // Jordan Windholz poetry reading - “There are fevers you still wish to forget,” writes Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, but how fortunate for the rest of us that he remembers. These tenderly crafted autobiographical poems pierce through to the heart of pain, love, loss, and the ongoing search for salvation—or at least a salve. Housed in the lived experiences of a queer Latinx person born and raised in the border town of El Paso, Cowboy Park seamlessly blends themes of masculinity, identity, and the immigrant experience, offering a new perspective on the iconic image of the cowboy and a deeper understanding of the complexities of human experience. The detainment and deportation of Martínez-Leyva’s brother grounds this exquisite collection in the all-too-common familial tragedy of political violence and discrimination. Martínez-Leyva honors the people, language, culture, and traditions that shaped him, revealing the indignities, large and small, experienced by a community that is too often misrepresented and maligned. “My voice was the only thing keeping us warm,” he writes, and the warmth from this striking debut collection is beautiful to behold. “I am absolutely wowed by this book; each word, line, and stanza are invigoratingly precise. Martínez-Leyva is a poet who has done the painstaking work of craft, and he knows its power to deliver the reader to an often difficult, often spectacular reflection on survival. A beautiful, exacting, and triumphant collection.”— Lynn Melnick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5fec1a09-5522-49e9-8d41-a348f1ddbd52/Saints%2Bfront%2Bcover%2B%281%29.jpg Events - Eduardo Martínez-Leyva // Megan Pinto // Jordan Windholz poetry reading - The energies animating Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto’s electrifying debut in poetry, are a forceful quiet, a loud stillness, the caesura between a lightning strike and the sound of thunder. Everywhere, the speaker sees the numinous power of language, the incipience of things to come, even a kind of catastrophic grace in desolation and destruction — as if within the terrain of her own obsession, she recognizes the familiar, ever-changing seasons. Fierce and intimate, this poet’s meditative transformations engage with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness, refusing to ignore narratives treated as unspeakable and overlooked by the English canon. Mapping the collision of abuse, psychosis, and rage, Pinto sees beyond them, buoyed by an inscrutable but abiding faith in the holiness of life itself, in a cold God nevertheless capable of gentleness. Once, “desire was an arrow, but now desire / is the field.” Pinto presides over this expanse, deciding, “I have three choices: to drift through life / anesthetized, to soften. . .” In that unspoken “or,” the merciful lacuna of that ellipsis, reside the lyrical mystery and medicine that feed this astonishing collection and strengthen resolve, both ours and the speaker’s: “The lake looks frozen, but it is not.” —Asa Drake in SPLIT LIP MAG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/029f20b4-8401-434c-8744-456f614912a2/Sister.png Events - Eduardo Martínez-Leyva // Megan Pinto // Jordan Windholz poetry reading - A lyric meditation on childhood, adulthood, parenting, grief, fear, and joy, The Sisters is a book of prose poems that began as bedtime stories. A kaleidoscopic invocation of imagined lives, these poems transform familiar myths, fables, and fairy tales into whimsical worlds that are a bit more fragile and bit more true. Through a series of prose poems, The Sisters confronts what it means to raise children and grow up amid climate catastrophes, insistent threats of gender-based violence, and the shocks of late-stage capitalism. These are ethereal and eerie stories full of torn edges, a series of dazzling lullabies that will soothe you awake. “ ‘See them,’ begins Jordan Windholz’s marvelous new collection, The Sisters, and so we do: Prismatic and lush, these portraits hover among fable, phantasm, and tender depictions that convey the ‘insistent buzz of the day’s glass minutes.’ They show us the sisters, ‘their bodies bright ideas the sky thinks and forgets.’ And they show us the semblances that bring the world into relation: ‘air shaken into petals,’ ‘the wind making a door of itself.’ Windholz’s elegant, imaginative prose poems are mesmerizingly spectral—not like a ghost but like a spectrum of light.”— Zach Savich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1742613947901-BUJ429YPM25GXCPWJ1XG/Eduardo+Martinez-Leyva+color+headshot.jpg Events - Eduardo Martínez-Leyva // Megan Pinto // Jordan Windholz poetry reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1742613963559-18H8SB58RLAAB7SZ14EB/MeganPinto102822_137BeowulfSheehan+%282%29.jpg Events - Eduardo Martínez-Leyva // Megan Pinto // Jordan Windholz poetry reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1742613965947-0PV607MQPVZMWM10W4TF/Jordan+-18+Compressed.jpeg Events - Eduardo Martínez-Leyva // Megan Pinto // Jordan Windholz poetry reading https://www.thewordischange.com/events/the-afrofuturist-evolution-with-ytasha-womack monthly 0.5 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f418ba5a-c787-4e30-bfaa-1469cdaaa365/Afro+Futurist.jpeg Events - The Afrofuturist Evolution with Ytasha Womack - The spaces revealed through the practice of time manipulation in Black cultures lend themselves to storytelling, a time-hopping process that integrates memory and community. Drawing on disparate philosophies and science behind electronic beat-making, lyricism, dance, memory, myth, and cosmology in the African and African Disaporic traditions, this book seeks to demonstrate relationships between rhythm, space, and ways of being as an articulation of futures and alternate realities made present. Infused with author and Afrofuturist educator Ytasha Womack’s own practice and contemplations, this book, rich in anecdotes, will interrogate Afrofuturism as an experience that unfolds through combinations of being a maker and theorist. Readers will take a creative journey that allows them to bring Afrofuturist practices into their own lives. The goal is to expand imagination, rootedness, and possibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/b82644f3-3adc-4cc2-9875-66243100fddb/ytasha-womack-for-news.jpg Events - The Afrofuturist Evolution with Ytasha Womack - Ytasha L. Womack is a filmmaker, futurist, and the author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, and Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity, and a contributor to the Smithsonian exhibit companion title Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures. Womack has taught and lectured on Afrofuturism to audiences ranging from Carnegie Hall and the Smithsonian, to Afropunk’s Film Festival in Brooklyn to the Sonic Acts Festival in Amsterdam; St. Etienne School of Architecture in France to MIT Media Lab’s “Beyond the Cradle” in Boston. She is the creator of the Rayla 2212 sci-fi multimedia series, the director of the award-winning film The Engagement, the producer and writer of Love Shorts, and the coeditor of Beats Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip Hop. She lives in Chicago. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/why-we-fear-ai monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6f0070c5-efb3-4ff3-b160-a0480e38aad0/9781945335174_FC.jpg Events - Why We Fear AI with Hagen Blix - Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future. Will AI come and take all our jobs? Will it dominate humanity, hack the foundations of our civilization, or even wipe humans off the face of the planet? All kinds of people seem to think so. From professors to billionaires, from artists to fraudsters, from journalists to the pope, AI nightmares have gripped the popular imagination. Why We Fear AI boldly asserts these fears are actually about capitalism, reimagined as a kind of autonomous intelligent agent. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/fv1xmukqrfrdhgdfyk49irdlfodbnk monthly 0.5 2025-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5720167c-bc5a-47e8-ba37-d84d5fdf9e61/9780262549363.jpeg Events - Kellie Jones: David Hammons - The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons. David Hammons is a collection of essays on the one of the most important living Black artists of our time, David Hammons (b. 1943). Documenting five decades of visual practice from 1982 to the present, the book features contributions from scholars, artists, and cultural workers, and includes numerous images of the artist and his work that are not widely available. Contributions include essays from cultural critics including Guy Trebay and Greg Tate; artists Coco Fusco and Glenn Ligon; and scholars such as Robert Farris Thompson, Alex Alberro, and Manthia Diawara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/dfa2d252-3b4f-4dce-995d-6c5fb79f1f8f/Screenshot+2025-02-18+at+5.05.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Kellie Jones: David Hammons - Kellie Jones is Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Departments of Art History & Archaeology and African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) and the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2016. Dr. Jones’s writings have appeared in a multitude of exhibition catalogues and journals. She is the author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017). Dr. Jones has also worked as a curator for over four decades and has numerous major national and international exhibitions to her credit. Her exhibition “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, was named one of the best exhibitions of 2011 and 2012 by Artforum, and best thematic show nationally by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She was co-curator of “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the 1960s” (Brooklyn Museum), named one the best exhibitions of 2014 by Artforum. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/boff-whalley monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/19a81386-6f61-4824-827c-42c90c8128e0/But+USA+tour+flyer+wic.jpg Events - Boff Whalley: But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsfeb25 monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ccd60611-1fbe-4d3d-926b-ae68dc800470/detroitdying.gif Events - Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) - On February 27th the Radical Book Club Meetings facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC will be discussing Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Dan Georgaka and Marvin Surkin. You do not have to have read the book to attend, but, of course, it’s great if you have. Copies are available at the store. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/ahmad-almallah-and-ghayath-almadhoun monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/490f5f19-7f97-4a0e-afcd-c3800adbb81d/wrongwinds.jpg Events - Ahmad Almallah and Ghayath Almadhoun - Ahmad Almallah’s third poetry collection considers the impossible task of being a Palestinian in the world today. When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Almallah converses with the screams echoing throughout the West. Traversing European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. Through a continuous unsettling of words and places, considering the broken voices of Western poetry (Eliot, Lorca, Celan among others), the poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/af2f146d-970f-431d-8161-e5d279737a63/Screenshot+2025-02-14+at+1.10.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Ahmad Almallah and Ghayath Almadhoun - I Have Brought You a Severed Hand destabilizes the very hierarchies of the page, and in so doing transgresses the borders of the poem, the nation, the body, and even that zone between speaker and addressee. In a phalanx of notes and footnotes, written over the years 2017 to 2023, Almadhoun takes us to Palestine, Syria, Germany and Sweden, reasserting the stakes for those unable to leave their states of imprisonment while proposing that hope may be inseparable from the absurdity of violence. He writes: “You say that I survived the war. No, my dear, nobody survives wars. It’s only that I didn’t die. I just stayed alive.” https://www.thewordischange.com/events/gathering-utopias-6 monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/775e6f2c-7c21-4c65-acd4-cc1b53f21071/GU6.jpg Events - Gathering Utopias - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/gathering-utopias-5 monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4f074863-efab-4b67-a5d2-9fbac310a66c/gatheringutopias5.jpg Events - Gathering Utopias - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/your-comrade-avreml-broide-by-ben-gold-with-annie-kaufman monthly 0.5 2025-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9994f7f0-a9e1-4f45-a646-48e8c7173775/your+comrade.jpeg Events - Your Comrade, Avreml Broide (by Ben Gold) with Annie Kaufman - Please join us as we welcome Annie Kaufman to read from and discuss her translation of Ben Gold’s novel Your Comrade, Avreml Broide. Annie will be in conversation with Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky. Sarah Schulman calls it "A great read and a crucial reminder." Patrick Chura calls it "A political novel of unusual psychological depth." https://www.thewordischange.com/events/lampblack-lit-reading-series monthly 0.5 2025-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/fe0197e1-4cdf-4ece-a01c-e8528b43a36f/Screenshot+2025-01-29+at+5.44.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Lampblack Lit Reading Series (at MoCADA) - Tracey Rose Peyton, Emily Raboteau, and Nicole Sealy MoCADA's new location: 10 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY https://www.thewordischange.com/events/gathering-utopias-4 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d5287265-9215-4aeb-bea2-12eea8a5588f/gathering+utopias4.jpg Events - Gathering Utopias - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e5e5360b-13d3-4444-aa11-a0c246fe9f0e/gathering+utopias+4+copy.jpg Events - Gathering Utopias - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/love-letters monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/801e8608-cbd0-4161-9d8d-40d2a4897137/loveletters.jpg Events - Love Letters - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d84590fe-5768-491a-9f26-780160e867c0/Screenshot+2025-01-29+at+5.11.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - Love Letters - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse-6 monthly 0.5 2025-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3de33c21-e765-4e48-b425-74dbeae98bb8/Feb+20+Joy+in+the+Soft+Apocalypse.PNG Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse vol. VI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/deathtrip monthly 0.5 2025-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/63f4518e-850f-401b-b5a7-2439be99ad40/death+trip.jpeg Events - Death Trip Seth Lorinczi - Joining us from Portland, OR, author Seth Lorinczi brings his new book Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir. A marriage story, a search for meaning in the wake of the Holocaust, and a struggle to release the weight of ancestral trauma, Death Trip is also funny, relatable, and in author Leni Zumas’ words: “As gripping and propulsive as a crime novel.” The book takes readers from the ayahuasca basements of Portland's psychedelic therapy underground to the streets and alleyways of Budapest during the darkest days of World War II. By turns wrenching and hilarious, it asks "can trauma be inherited" and, if so, "can psychedelics help us heal?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e58150e3-4282-4d93-a18a-25a3fb134133/SLorinczi_Headshot2_BW_LoRes.jpeg Events - Death Trip Seth Lorinczi - As a memoirist and culture writer, Seth Lorinczi brings a sly humor and a probing eye to the topics of psychedelics, ancestral and intergenerational trauma, and popular culture. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Washington, D.C., Lorinczi was part of the punk scene centered around Dischord Records in the ‘80s and ‘90s. After touring internationally with Modest Mouse, Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney and other artists, he turned towards writing as a creative pursuit. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Lorinczi’s writing appears in The Guardian, DoubleBlind, Narratively, Portland Monthly, and other periodicals and print anthologies. Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir is his first book. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/bianca-rae-messinger-pleasureis-amiracle monthly 0.5 2025-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6390da0d-a0f1-401b-b9ff-4b4db0f9d696/4BD8A9EE-D0DE-4F41-952D-BD2DC10734EB+2.jpg Events - Bianca Rae Messinger pleasureis amiracle - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dean-spade-love-in-fcked-up-world monthly 0.5 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9c1de720-1f6d-4b4a-88f0-948282da9d08/liafuw+image+algonquin.jpg Events - Dean Spade: Love in F*cked-Up World - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ce35413c-4901-4b2a-8171-672a9063c5b9/dean+2024+headshot+book.png Events - Dean Spade: Love in F*cked-Up World - Dean Spade is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next). He has worked for twenty-five years as a leading voice for trans liberation, prison abolition, and mutual aid, and has been interviewed by Bloomberg TV, Democracy Now, the Nation, the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast, and countless other media outlets. He teaches at the Seattle University School of Law. Find him at deanspade.net. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/40b8213b-d8a8-4fce-8dac-4440840808a1/morgan+Bassichis+mario+de+Lopez+photographer.jpeg Events - Dean Spade: Love in F*cked-Up World - MORGAN BASSICHIS is a comedian, musician, and writer who has been called “a tall child or, well, a big bird” by The Nation and “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker. Their past performances include A Crowded Field, Questions to Ask Beforehand, Don’t Rain On My Bat Mitzvah, Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me, Klezmer for Beginners, Damned If You Duet, More Protest Songs!, and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical. Morgan’s book of to-do lists, The Odd Years, was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2020. They co-edited, with Rachel Valinsky and Jay Saper, the anthology Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy’s Subway, 2023). Morgan has released two albums: March is for Marches with Ethan Philbrick (2019) and More Protest Songs! Live From St. Mark’s Church (2018). Their first museum show, More Little Ditties, curated by Dan Byers and Amber Esseiva, was co-commissioned in 2023 by the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/we-go-where-they-go monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6a566e34-892a-4f27-85e9-32c699ceeca6/we+go+where+they+go+cover.jpg Events - We Go Where They Go with Michael Staudenmaier and Kristin Schwartz - When Dare To Struggle NYC read We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action as part of their radical book club they knew they wanted to go deeper into it’s lessons and how to apply them on our current terrain. So they invited several of the contributors to the book to share their observations. Please join Michael Staudenmaier and Kristin Schwartz for a great way to kick off the year. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/fol-screening monthly 0.5 2024-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1531d0e1-aba6-4c4d-bcd3-10ca1b4af6f1/IMG_3523.jpg Events - For Our Liberation Film Screening and Discussion - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse-5 monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3ad920f1-d7de-4d51-b58f-24c98c7d8d0b/1219+Joy+in+the+Soft+Apocalypse.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse vol. V - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/stephanie-cawley-dawn-lundy-martin-jameson-fitzpatrick monthly 0.5 2024-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e514815b-ae5c-408e-be94-269160d5c558/no-more-flowers-front-cover-3-16.jpg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Stephanie Cawley: No More Flowers (Birds LLC) In Stephanie Cawley’s No More Flowers, poetry serves as a resistance against suffering—their own, their loved ones’, humanity’s. A protest against meaninglessness. An antidote. The poems in No More Flowers believe in their ability to affect consequences with language, while being self-aware enough to know how absurd that belief is: “That was just words. You could make them do anything, but also it was hard to make them do anything. Kite against blue clouds. Tree with green leaves. Street sign cut off on one edge so it says Cum Street. This was the machine into which I poured my sadness. The words were dead and they were alive.” These poems are a pleasure. And they insist that pleasure—and desire—are not an indulgence. They are a necessity to life: “I do want my friend to find / a place to sleep for longer than a few weeks. / I do want to put flowers in the mouths / of everyone I love and call it art.” The title declares No More Flowers, but inside the book, flowers proliferate. A queer, wild garden riots into bloom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/050fe316-0d8b-44f5-84df-d63d76301005/stephanie-cawley_headshot_crop.jpg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia. They are the author of My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions) and they are a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow. Stephanie’s poems and hybrid writing have been featured in Poetry Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and have been published in journals including Protean, TYPO, and West Branch. They work teaching writing and as a union representative for adjuncts. More at stephaniecawley.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ba336002-7f41-483d-8964-91c27bbe5716/instruction+for+the+lovers.jpeg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Dawn Lundy Martin: Instructions for the Lovers (Nighboat) A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. “Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can’t do,” writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother, experiences of queer polyamory, lesbian sex, and the racist conditions within the dying American university system. With rigorously embodied vulnerability and virtuosity, Martin constructs moments of pleasure, humor, and sexiness woven with grief—a tender body to live in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5ce9ef43-f93c-4b9c-8e66-099aeb9a4be4/211028_Dawn-193-1.jpg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of five books of poems: Instructions for The Lovers, Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering, and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, and Best American Essays 2019 and 2021. Martin was the first person to hold the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh where she co-founded and directed the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. She is currently working on memoir titled When a Person Goes Missing, forthcoming from Pantheon Books. She is Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8719bb04-bb96-4381-9d9f-fb81d90d8884/Pricks-in-the-Tapestry-_-cover.jpg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Jameson Fitzpatrick: Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds LLC) "There was the idea of love and then what." “This book is a record of my thinking and feeling during my mid-to-late-twenties. Like any record, it is incomplete and imperfect—I do not always identify with the speakers of these poems, even as I recognize their speech (and sometimes, their desires) as my own. I think of this collection as a bildungsroman of sorts: the story of a young poet coming to know, belatedly and with difficulty, the insufficiencies of the self as a subject and the lyric as a mode.” —Jameson Fitzpatrick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/cb464647-2d1d-4e22-907f-62d8a08e5baa/jameson.jpeg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Thom Gunn Award, and of the chapbooks Mr. & (Indolent Books, 2018) and Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications, 2014). She was awarded a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellowship in creative writing. She teaches at New York University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/fda297d0-88b7-4d39-be55-909f5c4c585b/R-E-D_Final-Cover-RGB_72dpi_432x648.jpg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Chase Berggrun: R E D (Birds LLC) Poetry. R E D is an erasure of Bram Stoker's Dracula. A long poem in 27 chapters, R E D excavates from Stoker's text an original narrative of violence, sexual abuse, power dynamics, vengeance, and feminist rage while wrestling with the complexities of gender, transition, and monsterhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1a42e324-76e1-4ce8-a3ed-751326a8ec23/chase+pic.jpg Events - Stephanie Cawley // Dawn Lundy Martin // Jameson Fitzpatrick // Chase Berggrun - Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet, educator, and organizer, and the author of R E D (Birds LLC, 2018) and the chapbook Somewhere a Seagull (After Hours Editions, 2023). She lives in Brooklyn with her many houseplants. She believes in a free Palestine from the river to the sea. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/anna-moschovakis-stacy-skolnik-claire-devoogd monthly 0.5 2024-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/13a21758-3bdb-4c38-b0e9-a2e190348a4d/an+earthquake+cover.jpeg Events - Anna Moschovakis // Stacy Skolnik // Claire deVoogd - Anna Moschovakis: An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth : A Novel (Soft Skull) A formidable, uncanny, and utterly unique new work from accomplished novelist and poet, Anna Moschovakis, whose translation of David Diop’s Frêre d’âme (At Night All Blood Is Black) won the 2021 International Booker Prize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/15d474ee-9547-4114-b329-a2266e6252a6/the+ginny+suite.jpeg Events - Anna Moschovakis // Stacy Skolnik // Claire deVoogd - Stacy Skolnik: The Ginny Suite (Montez Press) 'Information didn’t need to be remembered; it remembered her…' A mysterious global syndrome is affecting women, causing symptoms of submissiveness and aphasia. While the number of sufferers grows, so does our protagonist’s paranoia—of the media, her doctors, and her husband. In the age of misinformation, AI, and surveillance technology, The Ginny Suite asks how much—and who—we’re willing to sacrifice in the name of progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e881ec9a-5bc3-4fca-831f-e1ef51c910b6/DeVoogd-Via-Cover.jpeg Events - Anna Moschovakis // Stacy Skolnik // Claire deVoogd - Claire deVoogd: Via (Winter Editions) Poet Claire DeVoogd’s first book explores what happens to speech, history, and the future when approached from an imagined position after ending—after after—charting a path from an unreal “before” to modernity. Claire DeVoogd has a capacious mind. Her poetry has the commotion of history’s frantic details and grand movements, and a metaphysical silence that is post-apocalyptic. Via is a road for visionary readers. —Robert Glück https://www.thewordischange.com/events/faghag-nyc-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d9858969-f522-4398-9836-5cad3c630e41/Screenshot+2024-11-07+at+11.09.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - fag/hag nyc book launch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/algeria-capital-algeirs-by-anna-grki-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/618bf961-3582-4951-8796-4eca479e274f/Algeria+capital+Algiers+cover.jpg Events - Algeria, Capital: Algiers by Anna Gréki book launch - Please join Marine Cornuet and friends as we celebrate the publication of Anna Gréki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers, a collection of poems written during Gréki's imprisonment as part of the Algerian liberation struggle. Anna Gréki (1931-1966) was an Algerian poet of French descent. A member of the Algerian Communist Party, she was arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for her participation in the Algerian liberation struggle in Algiers, in 1957. Algeria, Capital: Algiers was first published in 1963 in a French and Arabic bilingual edition. Algeria, Capital: Algiers makes this work available to English readers for the first time. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/oliver-baez-bendorf-consider-the-rooster-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/da3355ee-9d4d-4627-998c-dc1d08b95611/IMG_2431.jpg Events - Oliver Baez Bendorf Consider the Rooster book launch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c2f5f2ff-7b60-422b-aea4-f582fe3bd76f/Baez_Bendorf_Oliver-HR-small-300x300.jpg Events - Oliver Baez Bendorf Consider the Rooster book launch - Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of Consider the Rooster (Nightboat 2024) and two previous collections of poems: Advantages of Being Evergreen (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019) and The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State U.P., 2015). He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Publishing Triangle, CantoMundo, Vermont Studio Center, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Born and raised in Iowa, he now lives in Colorado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6d922f49-255f-4491-9872-275e74949353/Jenny+Johnson.jpeg Events - Oliver Baez Bendorf Consider the Rooster book launch - Sinuous and sensual, the poems of In Full Velvet (Sarabande) interrogate the nuances of desire, love, gender, ecology, LGBTQ lineage and community, and the tension between a body’s material limits and the forms made possible by the imagination. Characterized by formal poise, vulnerability, and compassion, Johnson's debut collection is one of resounding generosity and grace. Jenny Johnson is a 2015 recipient of a Whiting Award and a 2016-2017 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2012, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, and Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f405e762-82ed-4c15-bc5b-f195f3f550aa/UrayoanNoelCreditLuisCarleIMG_0112-2.jpeg Events - Oliver Baez Bendorf Consider the Rooster book launch - Transversal (University of Arizona Press) takes a disruptive approach to poetic translation, opening up alternative ways of reading as poems get translated or transcreated into entirely new pieces. In this collection, Urayoán Noel masterfully examines his native Puerto Rico and the broader Caribbean as sites of transversal poetics and politics. Urayoán Noel is a writer, translator, and performer from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Noel is the author of ten books in English and Spanish, including the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam. Noel lives in the Bronx, is an associate professor in the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, and is currently completing Neural Sea, a hybrid lipogrammatic work engaging neurodivergence, disability, queerness, and displacement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/bf1b06d3-90d1-4c4c-afab-fa3554a390e6/yesenia+montilla.jpeg Events - Oliver Baez Bendorf Consider the Rooster book launch - In the book's eponymous poem, Yesenia Montilla writes, “How do you not love yourself when you / constantly survive your undoing just by being precious?" Muse Found in a Colonized Body answers this rhetorical question by populating itself with poems that range far and wide in content—observing pop culture, interrogating history, resisting contemporary injustice—but that share the spinal cord of unflinching love. As Rachel Eliza Griffiths notes, Montilla’s “powers orbit and intuit the lives of Philando Castile, Captain America, Christian Cooper, Karl Marx, Ahmaud Arbery, Eartha Kitt, and many more while stitching our wounded identities, memories, and histories in defiant poems of revision and joyous reclamation.” The vertebral odes of this collection at turns uplift desire, affirm life, celebrate protest, and condemn the violent greed of imperial usurpation that has produced the U.S. as we know it. Both in its criticism and its admiration, Muse Found in a Colonized Body calls upon its readers to rise to the occasion of these lyrics’ profound care. Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet and a daughter of immigrants. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry & Poetry in translation. She is a CantoMundo graduate fellow and a 2020 NYFA fellow. Her work has been published in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and in Best of American Poetry 2020. Her first collection The Pink Box was published by Willow Books & was longlisted for a PEN award. She lives in Harlem, NY. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse-4 monthly 0.5 2024-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f96ce591-0af1-4b2d-9c30-cea535193a48/Joy+in+the+Soft+Apocalypse+-+OCT+24+Final.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse vol. IV - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/max-haiven-the-world-after-amazon-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/230578d4-a8eb-4bca-b717-59558f62df90/people-falling-1-768x1686.png Events - Max Haiven The World After Amazon book launch - Please join Max Haiven and a “prime” collection of authors as we celebrate the publication of The World After Amazon! The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more. Amazon's sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a utopia of cheap consumer convenience. But its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions to create a future that will exclude them. What happens when those workers reclaim the radical imagination and their power to tell their own stories? We will have copies of The World After Amazon available at the book launch and it can also be read or downloaded online for free, and is also available as a podcast and audiobook. For more information, visit http://afteramazon.world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/908cf6e3-65bc-4a04-8681-070b33f388ee/World-After-Amazon_cover.png Events - Max Haiven The World After Amazon book launch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/gathering-utopias-iii monthly 0.5 2024-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/b33317e5-d368-4469-a52c-e247b96f2f73/gathering+utopias+3.jpeg Events - Gathering Utopias III - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/gathering-utopias-ii monthly 0.5 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/7159e9d1-823f-467d-8d9a-412e867e0007/image0+%281%29.jpeg Events - Gathering Utopias II - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/nacla-teach-in-on-daniel-jadue monthly 0.5 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8a6634ca-096f-4c4e-a970-847eeac362c8/New+York+City+Viewing+Party+-+Teach-in+on+Daniel+Jadue+-+ENG.JPEG Events - NACLA Teach-In on Daniel Jadue - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/the-highest-law-in-the-land-jessica-pishko monthly 0.5 2024-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a078d88a-427e-4a6c-91d3-3b706675d719/THE+HIGHEST+LAW+IN+THE+LAND+9780593471319.jpg Events - The Highest Law in the Land: Jessica Pishko - A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize jurisdiction sheriffs have over people’s lives, the office of sheriffs remains a gravely under-examined institution. Locally elected, largely unaccountable, and difficult to remove, the country’s over three thousand sheriffs, mostly white men, wield immense power—making arrests, running county jails, enforcing evictions and immigration laws—with a quarter of all U.S. law enforcement officers reporting to them. Reserve a copy to pick up at the event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c87cdb0e-10e8-4efe-80a7-b38757e7e19d/240425_Jessica_023-Edit.jpg Events - The Highest Law in the Land: Jessica Pishko - About the Author Jessica Pishko is a journalist and lawyer with a JD from Harvard Law School and an MFA from Columbia University. She has been reporting on the criminal legal system for a decade, with a focus on the political power of sheriffs since 2016. In addition to her newsletter Posse Comitatus, her writings have been featured in The New York Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Appeal, Slate, and Democracy Docket. She has been awarded journalism fellowships from the Pulitzer Center and Type Investigations and was a 2022 New America Fellow. A longtime Texas resident, she currently lives with her family in North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f5f3e702-9094-4751-bab6-71bcd749c7bc/when+the+clock.jpg Events - The Highest Law in the Land: Jessica Pishko - In conversation with John Ganz is the bestselling author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. He writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Artforum, the New Statesman, and other publications. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/gathering-utopias monthly 0.5 2024-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2afd2a43-8022-443d-a7d2-9bdbb620e276/Gathering+Utopias.jpg Events - Gathering Utopias - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/raha-gabriel-diggs monthly 0.5 2024-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e3e5a643-cf9a-41cd-a56f-905d2a196969/9781643622392_FC-copy-300x450.jpg Events - Nat Raha Poetry Launch with Kay Gabriel and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power, there is Nat Raha’s apparitions (nines) in its “charred golden minidress,” ushering us into a space of grief and resistance, the embodiment and intimacy of queer, trans, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of “niners,” a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet, as well as an ode to beauty, collectivity, and tenderness which emerges from—and far surpasses—constraint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/383963ba-c42a-4482-acf3-af493a4a373b/nat_headshot_May_2022_edited.jpg Events - Nat Raha Poetry Launch with Kay Gabriel and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar whose previous books of poetry include of sirens, body & faultlines, countersonnets, and Octet. Her work has appeared in 100 Queer Poems, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature, on Poem-a-Day, and in South Atlantic Quarterly, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Transgender Marxism,and Wasafiri Magazin. With Mijke Van der Drift, she co-edits the Radical Transfeminism zine and has co-authored articles for Social Text, The New Feminist Literary Studies, and the book Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds. Nat completed her PhD in queer Marxism at the University of Sussex, and is Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/07ea3dd7-1de9-489e-9313-bb2c851e0dcb/A-Queen-in-Bucks-County-200x291.jpeg Events - Nat Raha Poetry Launch with Kay Gabriel and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through miserable space. Men “buy him things,” lovers drive across state lines, users down volatile cocktails to see what happens, landlords turn tenants out, and Turner writes poetic tracts to friends about it. Part pornography, part novel, all love letter, A Queen in Bucks County is an experiment in turning language upside down to see what falls out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e17007e1-65eb-462c-8487-725a917e79ab/KayGabriel-300x3002.jpeg Events - Nat Raha Poetry Launch with Kay Gabriel and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. She is the author of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame and A Queen in Bucks County. She coedited, with Andrea Abi-Karam, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (all Nightboat Books), which was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. The editorial director of The Poetry Project, Gabriel lives in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8988dc22-ef46-4078-bbfd-36657caea4b0/village3.jpg Events - Nat Raha Poetry Launch with Kay Gabriel and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement. In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice, disrupting attempts at reconciliation across generations. Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialization, Diggs raises new monuments, tears down classist tropes, offers detailed instructions for her own international funeral celebrations, and makes visible the hidden labors of care and place. From corners in Harlem through North Carolina back roads, Diggs complicates the concept of “survivor,” getting to the truth of living in the dystopia of poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8cd0230c-8c04-47cf-ad40-0c1dc9258123/LaTasha+Diggs.jpg Events - Nat Raha Poetry Launch with Kay Gabriel and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - A writer, vocalist and performance/sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village (Coffee House Press), TwERK (Belladonna) as well as the co-editor of Coon Bidness/SO4. Diggs has presented and performed at California Institute of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of Modern Art, and Walker Art Center and at festivals. As an independent curator, artistic director, and producer, Diggs has presented events for BAMCafé, Black Rock Coalition, El Museo del Barrio, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and the David Rubenstein Atrium. Diggs has received a 2020 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, a Whiting Award (2016) and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (2015), as well as grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, Creative Capital, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, among others. She lives in Harlem and teaches part-time at Brooklyn College and Stetson University. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/lend-and-rule-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6744c2d2-e8a5-4fa2-97a3-18c224b66bdd/lendandrule.jpg Events - Lend and Rule Book Launch - Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way? Lend and Rule reveals the “shadow governance” of debt and credit in the United States higher education system. With sharp and hard-hitting insight, the Coalition Against Campus Debt exposes how institutional debt is a primary driver of university austerity, miseducation, and the deepening of societal inequality. Addressing how our lives are entangled in a debt economy, they develop the analysis necessary to transform higher education in today’s neoliberal racial capitalist political economy. Part theoretical analysis, part toolbox for organizers in higher education, Lend and Rule is an invaluable resource for anyone engaged in debt abolition struggles or looking to acquire a critical and transformative vision of higher education today. PREORDER Lend and Rule for EVENT PICKUP https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsaug24 monthly 0.5 2024-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ccd60611-1fbe-4d3d-926b-ae68dc800470/detroitdying.gif Events - Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) - On August 29st the Radical Book Club Meetings facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC will be discussing Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Dan Georgaka and Marvin Surkin. You do not have to have read the book to attend, but, of course, it’s great if you have. Copies are available at the store. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/black-august-community-town-hall-with-for-our-liberation monthly 0.5 2024-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5196240c-0ce7-4ce0-bbd5-d280cf8c4260/for+our+liberation.png Events - Black August Community Town Hall with For Our Liberation - The forum will focus on the urgent need to promote and develop revolutionary Black power. Our discussion will critically examine the growing trend of creating "Cop Cities" across the country, juxtaposed against the defunding of essential social services that have been proven to prevent crime. Additionally, we aim to explore the connections between our local struggles for justice and broader international movements for liberation. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/steven-salaita monthly 0.5 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/cf28d411-5f2b-4afd-9cc8-f1146db8c791/stevencover%3Ajpg.jpg Events - Steven Salaita: Daughter, Son, Assassin book launch - “Daughter, Son, Assassin is a brilliant debut novel from one of Palestine’s bravest and most trusted intellectuals.” —Susan Abulhawa, author of Against the Loveless World Please join us Wednesday August 7th as we welcome renowned Palestine activist Steven Salaita to launch his first novel. Daughter, Son, Assassin is a story of family bonds amid political betrayal that explores the drastic steps that a young girl will take in order to find a sense of belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/46fda746-6a85-4ba2-8c9f-b9b941ca9534/steven+salaita+photo.jpg Events - Steven Salaita: Daughter, Son, Assassin book launch - Steven Salaita is an award-winning scholar, writer, and activist. He is the author of ten books about Arab Americans, Indigenous peoples, race and ethnicity, and literature, most notably Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics, and An Honest Living. He currently teaches at the American University of Cairo. This is his first work of fiction. He tweets at @stevesalaita. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsjuly24 monthly 0.5 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4dff05b7-850c-42d3-b76a-c70fa0bfe327/soledad+brother.jfif Events - Soledad Brother: Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) - On July 31st the Radical Book Club Meetings facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC will be discussing George Jackson’s powerful Soledad Brother. You do not have to have read the book to attend, but, of course, it’s great if you have. Copies are available at the store. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/an-anti-fascist-anti-imperialist-reading-of-moby-dick monthly 0.5 2024-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d8e20d8a-1327-4306-99b6-c57d263caa04/moby-dick-reading.jpeg Events - An Anti-Fascist, Anti-Imperialist Reading of Moby-Dick - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1b753545-a6ad-411b-abe0-cfa2e89f3cfb/jonathanlongbow.jpg Events - An Anti-Fascist, Anti-Imperialist Reading of Moby-Dick - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/gqu0g7ciz72738fo758smajkr2z6z5 monthly 0.5 2024-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/fdfce042-8a79-4af6-b296-131c191da3ff/A+Land+With+a+People.jpg Events - A Land With A People: NYC Jewish Elders on the Anti-Zionist movement for Palestine Liberation - Please join editors of A Land With A People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism Esther Farmer and Rosalind Petchesky for a powerful discussion of current organizing for the liberation of Palestine. "By seamlessly and passionately weaving history with heartfelt life experiences, and intensely symbolic stories with candid reflections, this collection reveals the real wreck Zionism has created, shattering the mythology that Zionism has always hidden behind. In doing so, it courageously interrogates the crucial, yet often ignored, relationship between Palestinian liberation from Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid and Jewish emancipation from the suffocating, racist chains of Zionism. It leaves me with more hope." —Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights defender and co-founder of the BDS movement https://www.thewordischange.com/events/andrew-wilkes-plent-good-room-book-launch monthly 0.5 2024-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/270f68b9-7084-4d2c-8267-98cbc926908a/Plenty+Good+Room+cover.jpg Events - Andrew Wilkes: Plenty Good Room book launch - We are excited for the return to of Rev. Andrew Wilkes, Ph.D. to The Word Is Change and look forward to celebrating his new book. Pastor, activist, and political scientist Rev. Andrew Wilkes, Ph.D. offers this primer on democratic socialism, using the frame of the Black social gospel to give readers examples of communities working for the common good of all and to offer a vision for what an equitable future built for everyone might look like. Economic inequality yawns as wide as ever. Capitalism is working as it was designed: replicating an uneven balance of power, constraining life chances, and limiting imaginations. Those of us concerned about injustice often confine ourselves to issue-by-issue activism. The end result? Owners, investors, and a politics of inequality win. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ee955ac8-e6c5-4307-b216-cbb81c7de5ef/Andrew+Wilkes.jpg Events - Andrew Wilkes: Plenty Good Room book launch - Rev. Andrew Wilkes, Ph.D., is co-pastor of the Double Love Experience Church in Brooklyn and the former executive director of the Drum Major Institute. He is the coauthor, with spouse Rev. Dr. Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes, of Psalms for Black Lives and the author of Freedom Notes. His work and voice have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Sojourners, among other outlets. He serves on boards for the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York and the Institute for Christian Socialism. Dr. Wilkes is a graduate of Hampton University, Princeton Theological Seminary, the Coro Foundation's Fellowship in Public Affairs, and the CUNY Graduate Center. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsjune24 monthly 0.5 2024-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/99cb8216-5976-493a-a9b1-7b290b6d969f/DTS+June24.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/tama-sunday-open-streets-kick-off monthly 0.5 2024-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/05f93f8b-6b68-4464-be28-4be9cc689174/IMG_0296.jpg Events - TAMA Sunday Open Streets Kick Off - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/no-war-but-the-class-war-conference monthly 0.5 2024-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/fcf2c044-8af3-4836-a36b-59a9d18f6731/Screen+Shot+2024-05-25+at+11.31.01+PM.png Events - No War But The Class War Conference - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsmay24 monthly 0.5 2024-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3011930f-ce72-4dfe-8635-1d8413637226/DTS+Fight+Like+Hell.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/storming-bedlam monthly 0.5 2024-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/354c3aec-330c-48f3-a9fb-c6d3b9b0c297/stormingbedlam.jpg Events - Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt with Sasha Warren and Vail Varone - Storming Bedlam reimagines mental health care and its radical possibilities in the context of its global development under capitalism. The contemporary world is oversaturated with new psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of "crises" in mental health care. When they fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In a radical rereading of the history, theory, and practice of psychiatry, Storming Bedlam emphasizes the utopian origins of the psychiatric revolution and its roots in the political and economic revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Warren traces a double movement in the global development of mental health services from its origins through the 20th century. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/libro-fm-golden-ticket-hunt monthly 0.5 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/de2dea6e-3178-4c9e-b874-ee5c30dc70bb/passport.jpg Events - Independent Bookstore Day & Libro.FM Golden Ticket Hunt - Come on down to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us! Get your Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl passport stamped (or pick up one for your adventure), see if you can find the Libro.FM golden ticket to win a years worth of audio books, and listen to three amazing readers from Lampblack Lit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/0382cb0f-32a9-4bda-a53c-10a67c114cf1/librofm.jpg Events - Independent Bookstore Day & Libro.FM Golden Ticket Hunt - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1713799985043-0FK56Y16GQ1YE97H0MNN/lampblackibd.jpg Events - Independent Bookstore Day & Libro.FM Golden Ticket Hunt - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/lampblack-lit-on-indie-bookstore-day monthly 0.5 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/aa6049c2-593c-484b-83dd-22b822bec70b/lampblackibd.jpg Events - Lampblack Lit on Indie Bookstore Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsapr24 monthly 0.5 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3efe375e-c766-43b7-ba05-8885154789e0/dts2.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on The Weather Underground: The Way the Wind Blew by Ron Jacobs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1ea91c22-0037-4dd0-a2b9-d6635bb9167a/IMG_8816.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on The Weather Underground: The Way the Wind Blew by Ron Jacobs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/brooklyn-bookstore-crawl monthly 0.5 2024-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/0db6938c-62f9-4527-ba6f-a756b6c79078/2023.bookstore-crawl.brooklyn-cut-out.digital.png Events - Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl Save the dates and get ready to pick up your passport and see how many of the 25 amazing bookstores in Brooklyn participating you can visit. More details about special events coming soon, but you can check out the list of stores and start planning your route. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsmar28 monthly 0.5 2024-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c716b7c0-7369-4f13-8eaf-c3dad840db3e/dtsyoung+lords.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on The Young Lords by Johanna Fernandez - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1ea91c22-0037-4dd0-a2b9-d6635bb9167a/IMG_8816.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on The Young Lords by Johanna Fernandez - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/nightboat-boiled-owls monthly 0.5 2024-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/076ee183-384c-4a02-bac1-0ebb9427a397/boiled+owls+cover.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writer’s compulsion to write. Boiled Owls refers to an old colloquialism: to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider world and recovering friends, family, love, and humor as strands of support. Troubling the dogma and pop cultural representations of twelve-step program discourse, Sharma emphasizes the mundane and non-linear aspects of recovery, ultimately positing addiction as an internalization of capitalism and recovery as the development of a socialist consciousness. “Azad Ashim Sharma is an extraordinary force and presence in the landscape of contemporary British poetry. Boiled Owls is a stunning rendition of “half imaginary geography,” a presencing of recovery as a way to consider the relational logics of nation-state, embodiment, and political hope. Here is the cadence of survival, and also, of the life that comes after it.” —Bhanu Kapil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1c3f24e4-d75c-4d67-8d09-21e37d467a97/azad-ashim-sharma-copy-300x300.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - Azad Ashim Sharma is a writer and publisher based in South London. He is the director of the87press. His work includes Against the Frame and Ergastulum. His work has featured in publications such as the Asian American Writers Workshop, Stand Magazine, Gutter Magazine, the journal Social and Health Sciences, SPAMzine, MIR Online, and Wasafiri. He lives in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2d95404b-bad2-480b-995b-8ffdc04de84f/Pink-Noise.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - A book of prismatic, lyrical poems that enhance and disrupt the pastoral tradition to consider organic and mineral worlds, queer desire and experience, the mathematical and the spiritual, struggle and resistance. Pink Noise orbits in spaces of memory, longing, violence, solidarity, the ecological, and the mystical. Experimental in its forms and lexicon, in poems ranging widely in style and scale, it moves through layers of musical intensity as it reworks the visual space of the page to generate sensations of presence and revelation. Simultaneously lucid and syntactically disjunctive, these poems are queer and radical not only in their content, but in their grammar. “In Pink Noise, sometimes like a crackling icicle you see a glimmer of diamond dust, pink by nature. Here, in this book of poems. The lines are electric, conveying a new kind of sensuality, all quick and zapped. An oncoming fusion of poetic thinking with the sciences. Exciting! What we’ve been waiting for.” —Fanny Howe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/349426f9-b74c-4163-8a20-b8b698c3d4ef/KevinHoldenphoto-300x301.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - Kevin Holden is a poet, translator, and essayist. His books include Solar, which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Birch, which won the Ahsahta Press Chapbook Award. He is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/02cbd9af-0068-4e0c-a2a7-028b6ae5848e/Return_FrontCover-768x1152.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience. Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem, 回 / Return is engaged in the act of looking back—toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either? “Emily Lee Luan’s stunning reflections on sorrow haunt the sensorium. This sorrow—or ‘an anger rooted in sadness’—is untranslatable, rooted in the violence of colonization, displacement, and deracination. And yet Luan’s poems, which alloy Chinese and English into feats of formal ingenuity and beauty, translate the unspeakable.” —Cathy Park Hong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/94d375ef-f1fd-4756-bbc5-9bcc2541f3cb/Luan_Headshot-600x600.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - A former Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Emily Lee Luan is the author of I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She lives in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ac206ca7-10f7-4b7c-bea9-ac008d846bf0/crawford+cover.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - Jason B. Crawford's Year of the Unicorn Kidz beautifully explores existence on the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. Their profound navigation of identity, violence, and desire transcends boundaries and binaries. Vulnerability takes the centre stage as the speaker of these descriptive and passionate poems unburies old relationships and haunting memories. Year of the Unicorn Kidz reads like a coming-of-age story for marginalized youth in America, sketching the body in terms of disconnection, loss, and the explosive nature of desire. From burning rage to healing friendships to the thrill of forbidden encounters and the regrets that follow them, Crawford revisits the reckless elements of youth that capture the inner and outer conflicts of self-discovery. They bring incredible depth to their poetry with urgent and vivid storytelling that delicately reveals the complexity of reality, while also leaving room for readers to reflect on their own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/5dc7c549-429e-4b9f-949f-70e578b2c32c/crawford.jpg Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - jason b. crawford (They/He/She) is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut Full-Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz is out from Sundress Publications. crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. They are a 2023 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Metro Weekly, AGNI Magazine, Foglifter Magazine, Four Way Review, Cincinnati Review, Frontier Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, among others. They hold an MFA in poetry from The New School. Their second collection YEET! was the winner of the 2023 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and will be published in Fall 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c5d507f7-488a-42cd-954a-03c15e01953b/nightboat+logo-white.png Events - Boiled Owls (launch) and poetry Night - Nightboat Books, a nonprofit organization, seeks to develop audiences for writers whose work resists convention and transcends boundaries, by publishing books rich with poignancy, intelligence and risk. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/radical-imagination-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f06628f1-3163-4518-adc1-63988d831f88/Radical+Imagination+Graphic.jpg Events - Radical Imagination Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/self-devouring-society monthly 0.5 2024-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/68df6934-a503-4c48-9cb4-59ac360dd871/Jappe+cover.jpg Events - The Self-Devouring Society - The capitalist machine is making us all narcissists. The Self-Devouring Society is a work that unites the critique of political economy and the psychoanalytic tradition. In it, Jappe explores the dynamics of contemporary capitalism and explains how internalizing them creates a specific kind of person—a narcissist, someone who can only interact with the world by consuming it and who cannot conceive of limits to this consumption. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/exhausted-and-from-below-global-fights-against-climate-change monthly 0.5 2024-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/238aaed2-8ce6-44ad-953c-46a87a13e1b7/mar7+pair.jpg Events - Disaster Communism with Ajay Singh Chaudhary & Ashley Dawson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsfeb29 monthly 0.5 2024-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/97b3fda9-0098-4d85-b46e-9ba449b90561/Black+Against.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party - Please join us Thursday February 29th at 7pm for a discussion of Black Against Empire: THe History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC. You do not have to have read the book to attend, but, of course, it’s great if you have. Copies are available at the store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1ea91c22-0037-4dd0-a2b9-d6635bb9167a/IMG_8816.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/beehive monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f3b138b2-afd7-4d9b-9c79-545d21d4b61a/beehive+event.JPG Events - Beehive Design Collective Winter Tour - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/319ef73b-9945-4cf7-8ac3-58f90ce3e456/worker+bees.png Events - Beehive Design Collective Winter Tour - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/76f5f9af-df49-4203-a3f3-c1483e9d6940/MesoamericaResiste_Flyer11x17_English.jpg Events - Beehive Design Collective Winter Tour - The Mesoamérica Resiste graphics campaign is the culmination of nine years of story gathering, research, and illustration. The title, Mesoamérica Resists, reflects our efforts to document and share diverse stories of resistance, inspiration and solidarity. Our hope in releasing it into the world is that it will live and evolve as a dynamic tool for organizing and educating about some of the most important issues of our times. This collaboratively produced illustration was created through an intensive process of grassroots research. It all started in 2004, when an initial team from the US, Canada, and Mexico traveled together from Mexico to Panama. Our most ambitious and elaborate graphic to date, Mesoamérica Resiste is a tale of widespread resistance to the mega- infrastructure projects of the Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project, or Project Mesoamerica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/20b84fed-8519-49a2-a6f7-800f54a2bc29/coal_workshop_lettersize.jpg Events - Beehive Design Collective Winter Tour - The True Cost of Coal. Long exploited as a resource-extraction colony within the US, the Appalachian mountains are home to a fight for survival which has determined, in part, the industrial power of this country. Without coal, mined at a great cost to Appalachian communities, there would be no ‘cheap’ electricity. Today’s energy corporations and government bodies are continuing to show the extent of their greed and short-sightedness as they push their extractive agendas in the “New Coal Rush.” We will expose the deceptions of “clean coal” technologies and bring to light the root causes of the climate chaos the planet is facing today. The True Cost of Coal examines all of our connections to coal, while celebrating stories of struggle from mountain communities. The last chapter of the story also looks to the future, raising questions about alternatives, remediation, and regeneration. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse-3 monthly 0.5 2024-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ca398dbd-474f-414d-9c77-a66f5c7a1811/Joy+in+the+Soft+Apocalypse+-+FLYERS+%281%29.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse vol. III - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/red-braid-a-separate-star-book-launch-and-discussion monthly 0.5 2024-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4841ff08-4077-4943-a562-45d6d2087c70/9781927886540.jpg Events - Red Braid--A Separate Star book launch and discussion - Please join former members of Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial Socialism for a discussion on the occasion of the publication of A Separate Star. A wide-ranging book, A Separate Star: Politics and Strategy for Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Colonial, and Anti-Imperialist Struggle records the thinking behind the Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial Socialism’s ambitious five-year experiment in community organizing with the singular goal of building the revolutionary power of subaltern people. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsdec31 monthly 0.5 2024-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3e5acc69-7c65-43db-9a5a-6a761d61c6e8/IMG_8815.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on If We Burn - Please join us Wednesday Jan 31st at 7pm for a discussion of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC. You do not have to have read the journal to attend, but, of course, it’s great if you have. Copies of the book are available at the store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1ea91c22-0037-4dd0-a2b9-d6635bb9167a/IMG_8816.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) on If We Burn - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/speaking-out-about-palestine monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/984c889f-80fc-43bd-8f5a-08b9ec0e80fc/Speaking+out+about+Palestine.jpg Events - Speaking Out About Palestine: Repression In Your Work Place - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/chicarron-de-corazon monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/b58089c5-5dea-4710-8e9d-d11b98fd805f/flyer+fire+fundraiser+01%3A12.png Events - Chicarron de Corazon: Community Poetry Reading & Fire Relief Fundraiser - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/inversion monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/757008b2-7e4a-4fcb-a0f0-ffeca8fca716/inversion+cover.jpg Events - Inversion by Aric McBay (A Black Dawn Book) launch and discussion - On a mysterious green planet regenerated by fire, vibrant communities live in harmony with both its strange ecosystem and each other—until the day imperialist forces arrive. We are pleased to welcome Aric McBay to launch his new novel that contains the visionary spirit of Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed. Aric will be in conversation with Sanina Clark, the editor of AK Press’s Black Dawn fiction series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d2ed2641-1e4b-4630-969e-6396f6613399/aric.jpg Events - Inversion by Aric McBay (A Black Dawn Book) launch and discussion - Aric McBay is an organizer, a farmer, and author of seven books, including the novel Kraken Calling and the non-fiction Peak Oil Survival and Full Spectrum Resistance (2 vols.). He writes and speaks about effective social movements and has organized campaigns around prisoner justice, Indigenous sovereignty, pipelines, unionization, and other causes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e08aff37-0b4f-489b-b579-ebbd6829d1d3/sania.jpg Events - Inversion by Aric McBay (A Black Dawn Book) launch and discussion - Sanina L. Clark is the editor of Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature) and All City by Alex DiFrancesco (2020 Ohioana Book Awards Finalist in Fiction). Though they have worked on various kinds of books, they prioritize acquiring texts written by or about people who are queer, trans, women, or POC. They have worked with authors like Chavisa Woods, Khary Lazarre-White, and Luis J. Rodriguez. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/poetry-for-the-liberation-of-palestine monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://www.thewordischange.com/events/how-to-form-a-book-club-w-yahdon-israel monthly 0.5 2023-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3cb6a8e1-0887-412b-a521-6c5d47f4f283/IMG_7882.jpg Events - How to Form a Book Club with Yahdon Israel - Have you ever wondered how to form a book club? How to find people to read and discuss books with? How to keep it going? Then you don’t want to miss this event as Yahdon Israel the founder and host of the Literary Swag Book Club (now in it’s eighth year) shares what he’s learned building literary communities and why it’s important to spread the power and love of reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f2248022-7522-4489-a2e2-edae58659f08/IMG_7878.jpg Events - How to Form a Book Club with Yahdon Israel - The Literary Book Club is a community comitted to bridging the gap between people who love books and people who have never had a chance, it was important for us to eliminate the barriers of entry that have traditionally kept people out. Engaging in conversation, and connecting with community is our priority. You can always read the book, but you can’t always find someone who’s read the book and is interested in talking about it. That’s where we come in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/430109e5-b406-4a52-86a6-28c20d49335e/YahdonIsreal-p-500.jpeg Events - How to Form a Book Club with Yahdon Israel - Yahdon Israel is a Senior Editor at Simon and Schuster Books. Yahdon has a passion for promoting literacy and connecting readers with books. He brings an entrepreneurial spirit to these pursuits as the founder of a popular book club, host of a literary podcast, creative writing teacher, event producer, magazine editor, and writer, as well as his work in support of several prestigious literary awards. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse-2 monthly 0.5 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/08e3b122-712b-44bb-8ae5-6cee77344f61/Joy+in+the+Soft+Apocalypse+2.jpg Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse Part II - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsnov29 monthly 0.5 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d4a11e2c-a651-4ee0-9c57-de8a8a26e2e9/kites_8COVER_360x.jpg Events - Dare To Struggle NYC (Discussion Group) Kites #8 pt.2 - Please join us for the second part of a discussion of Kites: A Journal of Communist Theory & Strategy #8 facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC. You do not have to have attended the first session or to have read the journal to attend. Copies of the journal are available at the bookstore or you many of the articles can be found online. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/uche-nduka monthly 0.5 2023-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/11d9e4f2-5f62-4801-bd3a-5e3a671aa5aa/9780937804988.jpg Events - Uche Nduka: Bainbridge Island Notebook - We are pleased to welcome Uche Nduka, as he returns to Brooklyn with an explosive new collections of poems, and Giorgia Pavlidou for her new collection Female Body Retold “In Bainbridge Island Notebook, the measure of pleasure is found in the social fact of song. Sparkling with erotic charges and moral conundrums, Uche Nduka's detonates novelty in the name of love. His short lines create the rhythmic force of news that William Carlos Williams celebrated. This is poetry new, brave, and boisterous.” —Charles Bernstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/67dcadaf-682b-413b-b60c-f2cf7a2a6ed9/uche.png Events - Uche Nduka: Bainbridge Island Notebook - Uche Nduka is an itinerant poet-professor and essayist presently living in New York City. He is the author of 13 volumes of poems of which the latest are Fretwire (Griots Lounge, 2022) and Scissorwork (Roof Books 2022). Nduka's work has been translated into Finnish, German, Romanian, Arabic, Turkish, Italian, Dutch. His essays on music, poetry, mortality, travel, have appeared in various online and print outlets. He teaches at the New School-Eugene Lang and CUNY-Queens College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f8995178-77ac-4e7e-84dc-d291357d9104/female+body+retold.jpg Events - Uche Nduka: Bainbridge Island Notebook - Louis Aragon, one of the original Surrealists, wrote: “Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.” Giorgia Pavlidou’s poetry is eruptive in just this way. She uses contradiction, including a savage yet ultimately humane perversity, as a catapult to smash open accepted dichotomies and examine their contents with a critical and sometimes derisive eye. To this work she brings a wide multilingual erudition, including Greek and Sanskrit language and mythology. Formally straightforward, her writing is imaginatively and intellectually intricate and playful, with a queer/feminist impetus. She has her fellow travelers, like Will Alexander, and her foremothers, like Joyce Mansour. But as a poet she is uniquely herself, unlocking a new door to the marvelous. — Adam Cornford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1d8f9c05-4218-4c91-b576-3a9bd4b8d77b/giorgiapavlidou.jpg Events - Uche Nduka: Bainbridge Island Notebook - Giorgia Pavlidou is a Greek-born American writer who has lived in California, the Benelux and India. She received her MA in Urdu Literature from Lucknow University, India, and her MFA from the Manchester School of Writing, UK. Her work recently appeared or is forthcoming in Caesura, Maintenant Dada Journal, Puerto del Sol, Clockwise Cat, Ocotillo Review, Philosophical Egg, Live Mag!, Al-Khemia Journal, Entropy and Moon & Sun Magazine. Giorgia originally trained in psychoanalytic and systemic psychotherapy. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/black-love-letters monthly 0.5 2023-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/99fcc1dc-0548-47b4-ad84-329a64157790/blackloveletters.jpg Events - Black Love Letters with Natalie Johnson and Cole Brown - In this exquisite anthology of letters and illustrations, Cole Brown and Natalie Johnson bring together a constellation of influential Black figures to write to the people, places, and moments that mean the most to them. With a foreword from John Legend and contributions from Brontez Purnell, Morgan Jerkins, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Dr. Imani Perry, among many others, Black Love Letters is an ode to a phenomenal community: a testament to the fact that where there has been pain and suffering, there has also always been immeasurable, irrepressible joy and love. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/patricia-spears-jones-the-beloved-community monthly 0.5 2023-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/977f731a-3905-4031-b265-2e17ed7bec34/beloved+community+cover.jpg Events - Patricia Spears Jones: The Beloved Community - We are pleased to welcome Patricia Spears Jones, Nicole Callihan, and Ricardo Maldonado as we work to constitute a Beloved Community. Dedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, The Beloved Community sees Jones at her best as she writes toward and in search of all that connects and disconnects us. In her fifth poetry collection, The Beloved Community, Jackson Poetry Prize–winner Patricia Spears Jones interrogates the necessity and fragility of human bonds: sensual, familial, societal. From lyric to elegy, far-reaching poems use wordplay and metaphor to create richly textured landscapes in search of community. As we traverse delis, laundromats, and the Brooklyn block where morning glories grow “leaves plump as Italian cookies,” poems about poverty, art, and community become poems about location—always the city is alive and breathing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ff40cfbf-4aa6-4d9d-a5c9-f6bb068f721d/Pat+Spears+jones.png Events - Patricia Spears Jones: The Beloved Community - Bed-Stuy-based poet Patricia Spears Jones is the author of four collections including A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (2015) and five chapbooks. Her work has been anthologized in African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and she is the editor of Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a358f25a-080c-477a-9388-888eabfab73e/.gif Events - Patricia Spears Jones: The Beloved Community - Nicole Callihan’s semantic debates and whimsical linguistics in This Strange Garment open the reader to more than the pain, treatment, and aftermath of breast cancer. We also get the “god in the scars.” Hers is a mind of lyrical curiosity, turning life around and finding prisms. Let her show you how to “place lady slipper orchids where your flesh used to be.” Let these poems pull you into a life “severed but raptured.” —Lauren Camp, 2022-2025 New Mexico Poet Laureate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/cbbb3c7b-7a1a-4eec-85ee-738283b6e663/Life+Assignment.jpg Events - Patricia Spears Jones: The Beloved Community - The speaker of the poems in The Life Assignment is reviewing his history. As if sorting through a box of photographs, the speaker sorts through relationships, trying to discern what was healthy from what was exploitative. Concepts of love are turned over and over in these poems: romantic love, love of family, love of country, self-love (or lack thereof). Often the speaker finds that what at first appeared to be caring, was insincere all along. When tenderness is in short supply, how can one protect himself? How can one find home? In his debut collection, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado bends poems through bilingual lyrics that present spartan observation as evidence for its exacting verdict: “We never leave when life is elsewhere. The clemency of men disappears / as does the light, tarring the roofs.” An electric debut collection. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/rattling-the-cages monthly 0.5 2023-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d5f68cb3-e5cf-43f3-8e83-dc3d89bc10fc/Rattling+the+Cages+postcards.jpg Events - Rattling the Cages: Political Prisoner book launch - Please join us as we celebrate the publication of Rattling the Cages with editor Josh Davidson in conversation with Matt Meyer and dequi kioni-sadiki. We will also be writing greeting cards to those unable to join us. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/abolition-dreams monthly 0.5 2023-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/68d8b379-172c-4283-b5fb-130367cba034/nightboatpoetry+abolition.jpg Events - Abolition Dreams: Jackie Wang + Christopher Soto - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/la-botz-in-tijuana monthly 0.5 2023-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/74c3b864-a8f1-40c7-a5b7-149ab1703b5c/trotsky+in+tijuana+cover.jpg Events - Trotsky in Tijuana with Dan La Botz - You may know Dan La Botz from his Troublemakers Handbook, his non-fiction work analyzing global labor movements, or his co-founding of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, but now, with Trotsky in Tijuana, he has added novelist to his resume. Please join us for a reading from his new novel and an imagining of what could have happened had Stalin not assassinated Trotsky in Mexico City. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/dtsoct23 monthly 0.5 2023-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d4a11e2c-a651-4ee0-9c57-de8a8a26e2e9/kites_8COVER_360x.jpg Events - We Go Where They Go (Discussion Group) - Please join us for a discussion of”The Crying Need for a Communist Vanguard Party Today,” the conclusion to Kites: A Journal of Communist Theory & Strategy #8 facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC. Copies of the journal are available at the bookstore or you can read the article online. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/radical-publishing-in-political-headwinds monthly 0.5 2023-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e1b4248d-de6d-4d33-9727-e59c2a1328c1/BKBF-bookend-logo-20233-V3+%281%29.jpg Events - Radical Publishing in Political Headwinds (A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event) - "THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2023 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT" https://www.thewordischange.com/events/we-go-where-they-go-book-club monthly 0.5 2023-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6a566e34-892a-4f27-85e9-32c699ceeca6/we+go+where+they+go+cover.jpg Events - We Go Where They Go (Book Club) - What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go by Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Scwartz, and Michael Staudenmaie recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today's anti-fascist organizing in North America. Please join us for a discussion of the book facilitated by Dare To Struggle NYC. Books are available in advance and at the event. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/hardt-subversive70s monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/106b3607-0e7d-4d9a-9b5a-5745413dc5eb/Subversive+Seventies+cover.jpg Events - Michael Hardt: The Subversive Seventies book launch - A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. We are excited to welcome Michael Hardt, who with Antonio Negri in their Empire trilogy helped us understand a new global terrain of struggle, and in his new book The Subversive Seventies (Oxford) investigates and draws forth the lessons from what he understands as a decade of "subversives." Reserve a seat and a book (reservations not required) Faced with various progressive and revolutionary social movements, the forces of order--politicians, law enforcement, journalists, and conservative intellectuals--saw subversives everywhere. From indigenous peasant armies and gay liberation organizations, to anti-nuclear activists and Black liberation militants, subversives challenged authority, laid siege to the established order, and undermined time-honored ways of life. Police and military repression of the Left rose to extreme levels and took a wide variety of forms with varying degrees of lethal and nonlethal force, including disinformation campaigns, surveillance, infiltration, extralegal incarceration, targeted assassinations, mass “disappearances,” and torture. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/support-tama-sundays monthly 0.5 2023-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c617c38a-7794-4ac4-ad02-031754f1ee55/TAMAsundays.jpg Events - Support TAMA Sundays - As neighbors, merchants, visitors, and community members we are writing to express our support for the Tompkins Avenue Open Streets and wish to see them continue this summer. Please sign the letter of support On Sunday afternoons throughout the summer Tompkins Avenue is closed to traffic from Gates to Jefferson and we gather with our neighbors and friends to celebrate, make connections, and support the community. From children's activities, delicious food, music, dancing, and cultural activities, Tompkins Avenue is filled with joy. Tompkins Avenue with its Black women- and women- owned businesses has become known as a center of Black Girl Magic and these events help us to know our neighbors and to support and sustain these local businesses. We know that TAMA Open Streets is an important part of keeping these storefronts and vendors afloat and that Open Streets enables them to employ BedStuy residents. Weather permitting, there are eight more Open Street celebrations this year and we look forward to coming together for them. Please sign the letter of support https://www.thewordischange.com/events/joy-apocalypse monthly 0.5 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/37c36bcd-5650-4063-b27f-ef011648e695/JoyInApocalypse_07.28.23.png Events - Joy in the Soft Apocalypse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/holmes-ows monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8b198b18-9f3a-4d90-8439-6f8a0017afe2/Occupy+cover.jpg Events - Marisa Holmes: Organizing Occupy Wall Street book launch - Please join us as we welcome Marisa Holmes to celebrate the launch of Organizing Occupy Wall Street. This book is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception to the end. While much has been written on OWS, few books have focused on how the movement was organized. Marisa Holmes, an organizer of OWS in New York City, aims to fill this gap by deriving the theory from the practice and analyzing a broad range of original primary sources, from collective statements, structure documents, meeting minutes, and live tweets, to hundreds of hours of footage from the OWS Media Working Group archive. In doing so, she reveals how the movement was organized in practice, which experiments were most successful, and what future generations can learn. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/malavika-kannan monthly 0.5 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/79bdb915-60a0-44a1-99cc-a70ba6500c03/all+the+yellow+suns+cover.jpg Events - Malavika Kannan: All the Yellow Suns book launch - "An achy, stunning coming-of-age story about activism and identity, family and belonging." — Teen Vogue Please join us as we welcome Malavika Kannan and Kuhoo Verma to celebrate the launch of All the Yellow Suns, a YA novel and coming-of-age story about a queer Indian American girl exploring activism and identity through art. Sixteen-year-old Maya Krishnan is fiercely protective of her friends, immigrant community, and single mother, but she knows better than to rock the boat in her conservative Florida suburb. Her classmate Juneau Zale is the polar opposite: she’s a wealthy white heartbreaker who won’t think twice before capsizing that boat. And yet, as tension mounts at their racist high school, the girls become unlikely allies in activism and art. When Juneau invites Maya to join the Pugilists--a secret society of artists, vandals, and mischief-makers who fight for justice at their school--Maya descends into the world of change-making and resistance. Soon, she and Juneau forge a friendship that inspires Maya to confront the challenges in her own life. But as their relationship grows romantic, painful, and twisted, Maya begins to suspect that there's a whole different person beneath Juneau's painted-on facade. Now Maya must learn to speak her truth in this mysterious, mixed-up world--even if it results in heartbreak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/09a19493-aaba-48e7-aa09-750f674b9540/Screen+Shot+2023-07-07+at+12.10.24+AM.png Events - Malavika Kannan: All the Yellow Suns book launch - This event was originally taking place at Yu & Me Books in Chinatown. On Tuesday their upstairs neighbor had a fire and as a result the store is closed while they recover. In the fire, the majority of their books and equipment were destroyed and the building requires gut renovation. They are raising money to rebuild their store and keep their employees cared for. Book sales and donations at this event will aid in that effort and we also encourage you to contribute directly to their gofundme. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/new-york-liberation-school-book-launch monthly 0.5 2023-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d5f3847f-81ea-4fe2-ba12-1f6713b613b7/NYLS+Word+is+Change.png Events - New York Liberation School Book Launch - In the 1960s and ’70s—when Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Delany, David Henderson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Guillermo Morales, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur all studied and taught at CUNY—New York City’s classrooms and streets radiated as epicenters of Black, Puerto Rican, queer, and women’s liberation. At this special presentation, Conor Tomás Reed will share in particular about the entwined queer CUNY legacies of poet-educators Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich. Conor Tomás Reed is part of the next generation of insurgent CUNY thinkers nourished by these legacies. Highlighting the decolonial feminist metamorphosis that transformed our educational landscape, New York Liberation School explores how study and movement coalesced across classrooms and neighborhoods. Reed’s immersive and wide-ranging narrative brings us into the archives and up close to the stories of its main participants in order to reactivate these vibrant histories. The result is a radiant reclamation of collective history that charts a vision for liberating education and society today. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/exquisites monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/faadf936-7e2c-48b9-ab27-3f7d4699801d/exquisites+bright.png Events - Exquisites Poetry - Celebrate Pride with a selection of authors from the Exquisites queer poetry reading series sharing verses and celebrating the publication of a new chapbook drawn from the first year of the reading series. Celebrate Pride with a selection of authors from the Exquisites queer poetry reading series sharing verses and celebrating the publication of a new chapbook drawn from the first year of the reading series. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/red-thread monthly 0.5 2023-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/abd6ae01-7464-48f3-b2f5-f2cc4838e2e3/redthread.png Events - A Brilliant Red Thread: NYC Book Launch and Discussion - [C]apitalism will not topple “through … exhaustion.” It will not “stop running on its own.” It must be overthrown by a politically conscious, mass counter-force, and the primary issue for us concerns how such a force might develop... —from “Financialization and Hegemony” From the Communist Party of the 1950s, to autonomous European movements in ‘68 and the revolutionary armed liberation movements of the ’70s and ’80s, to the antifascist organizing of ARA in the ’90s, to cutting-edge analysis of the fallout of on-going capitalist crisis, right up to today, Don Hamerquist’s biography reads like a history of the post-war US radical left. Hamerquist uses his decades of experience in collective struggle to analyze a world constantly in motion. Bridging gaps, sorting wheat from chaff, Hamerquist calls on those who (like him) still identify as Leninists to recognize the failures of the vanguard party and “actually existing socialism,” while also calling on anarchists, who share his commitment to a struggle outside of and against the state, to recognize the necessity of disciplined organization and a rejection of purity politics. Please join editor Luis Brennan, Portland organizer Amelia Cates, and John Garvey and Mike Morgan from Hard Crackers Magazine for a discussion of the ideas Dom Hamewrquist. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/story-time-djdad monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2a2f114b-2c20-4867-8507-fa0c3908c62a/My+Dad+is+A+DJ.jpg Events - Story Time: My Dad’s a DJ - RESCHEDULED Celebrate Father’s Day by picking up a copy of My Dad’s a DJ by author/artist Keith Henry Brown and then come back the following week for a reading. To create My Dad’s a DJ Bed-Stuy artist and father Keith Henry Brown teamed up with National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine to celebrate Black fatherhood, identity, and music through the generational rivalry of hip-hop vs. jazz. Based in part on Brown's experience as a single father, this picture book deftly depicts modern divorce in a Black family, and is a heartwarming ode to how music can bring a father and son closer together. Please join us in the streets as we set up outside The Word Is Change Sunday June 25th at 12:30pm. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/story-time-how-we-can-live monthly 0.5 2023-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/246cc0e5-1146-41a5-b834-83840fcdc9b9/How+We+Can+Live+cover.jpg Events - Story Time TAMA Sunday: How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter - TAMA Open Streets Sundays Kick Off June 4th and we are kicking it off with a great program for young readers (and not-yet-readers)! Laleña Garcia and Caryn Davidson will be reading their inspiring How We Can Live; Principles of Black Lives Matter and sharing activities from the accompanying What We Believe activity book. Please join us in the streets as we set up outside The Word Is Change Sunday June 4th at 12:30pm. Activity sheets and art supplies will be provided. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/4cf64d7d-8e55-42f6-ac35-6954e5075062/IMG_6008.JPG Events - Story Time TAMA Sunday: How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter - Author Laleña Garcia has taught in New York City early childhood education programs for more than twenty years. How We Can Live grew out of her work with Black Lives Matter in Schools, a teachers’ organization striving for racial equity in education, and she has presented at local and national conferences on teaching the principles of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to children. A graduate of Yale University and the Bank Street College of Education, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Please visit her website at rootedkids.org and follow her on Instagram at @blm_in_kindergarten. Caryn Davidson studied Anthropology and Visual Art at Brown University and received her MA in arts education from NYU. Since the start of her career in education in 2004, she founded and developed the arts programs at three public schools in New York City and also led initiatives to promote culturally relevant pedagogy and socially just practices within those school communities. She now teaches art at the high school level in Brooklyn, NY, where she also lives. You can find her on the web at caryndavidson.com and on Instagram at @caryn_arts. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/you-might-go-to-prison monthly 0.5 2023-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f23cfd35-3ae4-4a8e-ae49-b6239cc19cbe/you+might+go+to+prison+cover.jpg Events - You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent with Justin Brooks - Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. We are eager to welcome him as he shares the lessons he has learned as the founder of the California Innocence Project. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. Putting readers at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence. The stories of Brooks's cases and clients paint the picture of a broken justice system, one where innocence is no protection from incarceration or even the death penalty. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/you-might-go-to-prison-even-though-your-innocent-with-justin-brooks monthly 0.5 2023-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f23cfd35-3ae4-4a8e-ae49-b6239cc19cbe/you+might+go+to+prison+cover.jpg Events - You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent with Justin Brooks - Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. We are eager to welcome him as he shares the lessons he has learned as the founder of the California Innocence Project. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. Putting readers at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence. The stories of Brooks's cases and clients paint the picture of a broken justice system, one where innocence is no protection from incarceration or even the death penalty. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/stopcopcityletter2 monthly 0.5 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/89df337e-5744-42b3-8283-0a75b1ebfbcb/stop+cop+city2.jpg Events - Letter Writing to Stop Cop City Protesters with Bed-Stuy Strong - In solidarity with the Mass Mobilization to Stop Cop City and the massive charges activists are facing join Bed-Stuy Strong at The Word is Change Thursday, June 1 at 7 pm for an evening of letter writing. Supplies will be provided! Writing to our comrades is an essential way of contributing to struggle and keeping the fight going. We keep us safe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/7ecdee71-ccf0-49ef-8fed-db1ee9666b18/stop-cop-city-growth.png Events - Letter Writing to Stop Cop City Protesters with Bed-Stuy Strong - What is Cop City? The Atlanta Police Foundation is trying to build the largest police training facility in the US in Weelaunee Forest, a watershed surrounded by primarily Black residents who overwhelmingly oppose the project. The plans include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/tyriekwhite-nabilalovelace monthly 0.5 2023-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/352ab380-f73b-4838-a699-f99ceaa03b99/Tyriek-Nabila.jpg Events - Tyriek White & Nabila Lovelace Independent Bookstore Day signing - Come meet Tyriek White and Nabila Lovelace from 4:30-5pm as you celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and see what other IBD goodies we have in stock. And then head over to hear them read as part of the Nomad Reading Series at Grandchamps on Patchen Ave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/8f1373b3-4860-4672-b3c0-564eb6037468/we+are+a+haunting.gif Events - Tyriek White & Nabila Lovelace Independent Bookstore Day signing - A poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation. Taking place over thirty years, We Are a Haunting follows a family of East New Yorkers struggling to maintain a connection to their history. Grandma Audrey, herself a living ancestor among the speaking dead, is about to lose her apartment; her indelible and vivacious daughter Key dies young after serving the Black women of her neighborhood, leaving behind a grieving son, Colly, who holds deep-seated disdain for a community to which he has no choice but to be accountable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f5841b7e-0eab-49a4-a8ef-1f35ea46b09f/sonsofachilles.jpg Events - Tyriek White & Nabila Lovelace Independent Bookstore Day signing - Sons of Achilles questions what it means to be in and of a lineage of violence when every interaction one has with violence and intimacy, fictional and/or real, feed into relationships with self and others. How does a black woman parse, navigate, and unlearn the ways violence and intimacy intertwine when the trauma from it is familial, cultural, and even state sanctioned? From mythical characters that depict and pass down a progeny of violence through their canonization, to the witnessing of violence, this collection questions the ways violence enters and inhabits a life. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/jfp monthly 0.5 2023-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/39f0da25-9bf2-4be4-bfd6-4a7e47fb65ff/May+7+event.png Events - Alexandra Juhasz, Leora Fridman, Ethan Philbrick: a reading and conversation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/kepnes-for-you monthly 0.5 2023-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/1680910986048-O7NUVIGPX67M0TO047DM/9780593133811.jpg Events - Caroline Kepnes Book Launch: For You and Only You - The anti-hero of Caroline Kepnes’ You series Joe Goldberg is a sociopathic bookseller from Bed-Stuy, but don’t worry the bookstore he worked in was in the East Village and in the new novel he’s off to Harvard. With that in mind, we are excited to welcome Caroline Kepnes and Andrea Bartz, two New York Times bestselling authors, to launch For You and Only You! Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he’s writing them. And he’s off to a good start. Glenn Shoddy, an acclaimed literary author, recognizes Joe’s genius and invites him to join a tight-knit writing fellowship at Harvard. Finally, Joe will be in a place where talent matters more than pedigree . . . where intellect is the great equalizer and anything is possible. Even happy endings. Or so he thinks, until he meets his already-published, already-distinguished peers, who all seem to be cut from the same elitist cloth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f43fc85d-add9-4166-a5fd-e8396c977352/trio.jpg Events - Caroline Kepnes Book Launch: For You and Only You - Caroline Kepnes is the author of You, Hidden Bodies, Providence, You Love Me, For You and Only You, and numerous short stories. Her work has been translated into a multitude of languages and inspired a television series adaptation ofYou, currently on Netflix. Kepnes graduated from Brown University and previously worked as a pop culture journalist for Entertainment Weekly and a TV writer for 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and now lives in Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2639f71f-2bfd-45a8-8d3c-6adc0758861a/andi.jpg Events - Caroline Kepnes Book Launch: For You and Only You - Andrea Bartz is a Brooklyn-based journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of We Were Never Here, The Lost Night, and The Herd. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Martha Stewart Living, Redbook, Elle, and many other outlets, and she's held editorial positions at Glamour, Psychology Today, and Self, among other publications. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/book-learning-42623 monthly 0.5 2023-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/faddaf0b-75d1-46ca-a4a7-42cb99254043/4.26+Reading+.png Events - Book Learning Community Reading - Make it stand out Come through for a community reading co-hosted by The Word Is Change and Book Learning, an online and IRL writing collective for folks who want to build a sustainable writing practice, generate new writing, and create community with other writers and creatives. This reading will celebrate the work of Book Learning’s latest cohort and the hybrid work being made right here in Brooklyn. Inspiration and new writing friends provided Wednesday, April 26 7:00-9:00pm https://www.thewordischange.com/events/nightboat-poets monthly 0.5 2023-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/02cbd9af-0068-4e0c-a2a7-028b6ae5848e/Return_FrontCover-768x1152.jpg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience. Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem, 回 / Return is engaged in the act of looking back—toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either? “Emily Lee Luan’s stunning reflections on sorrow haunt the sensorium. This sorrow—or ‘an anger rooted in sadness’—is untranslatable, rooted in the violence of colonization, displacement, and deracination. And yet Luan’s poems, which alloy Chinese and English into feats of formal ingenuity and beauty, translate the unspeakable.” —Cathy Park Hong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/94d375ef-f1fd-4756-bbc5-9bcc2541f3cb/Luan_Headshot-600x600.jpg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - A former Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Emily Lee Luan is the author of I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She lives in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/fc76e6a7-3143-414a-96db-0fd5eb0fc9b5/9781643621586_CRUEL_FC-768x1152.jpeg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form. CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions, shaped by art and a soundtrack of Black musical traditions of resistance: from jazz to soul to experimental to hip hop. A hybrid visual and literary object, CRUEL/CRUEL feels relentlessly present, and yet emphasizes the archival and documentary as intrinsic to our personal and collective survivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e6685371-f8cf-4759-a9a0-e7502dfa9764/dior-stephens-300x300.jpeg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - Dior J. Stephens is a proud Midwestern pisces poet. He is the author of SCREAMS & lavender, 001, and CANNON!, all with Ghost City Press. Dior holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy program at the University of Cincinnati. Dior hopes to be a dolphin in his next life. Dior’s preferred pronouns are he/they. He tweets at @dolphinneptune and Instagrams at @dolphinphotos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e89ead36-e975-4796-9b37-a1ee4a249061/Stemythings9781643621500_FC-768x1152.jpg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy. This flirty collection traces unruly paths of becoming; its sprawling poems build towards an expansive world celebrating fluidity while casting a critical lens on state power, ecological precarity, and the yearning for queer utopia on stolen land. Referencing lineages of poets, musicians, workers and neighbors, as well as conversations between lovers and friends, stemmy things is a vision unraveling, breaking open to make space for glimmering while reckoning with the body’s multiple contexts. Layered, lush, and lavish, these poems offer up tangling, blossoming desire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d35c3ea0-32cd-4c94-b2c2-ec7b1efc1fa9/Imogen+0-600x600.jpg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - imogen xtian smith is a poet & performer living & working in Lenapehoking / Brooklyn, New York. Their work has appeared in Folder, Tagvverk, Blush, The Rumpus, Peach Mag, the Poetry Project Newsletter, & We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (as xtian w), & elsewhere. imogen received an MFA at NYU & was a 2021-22 Emerge Surface Be Fellow at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. stemmy things is their first book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f156d278-6a6b-4c16-bb58-e955ff36e983/Togetherness-FC-1-768x1161.jpg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood and adolescence. Togetherness sends out sparks from its electric surface, radiating energy and verve from within its deep and steady emotional core: stories of the poet’s immigrant childhood spent in their family’s Chinese restaurant, culminating in a deportation battle against the State. These narrative threads weave together monologue, soaring lyric descants, and document, taking the positions of apostrophe, biography, and soulful plaint to stage a vibrant and daring performance in which drag is formalism and formalism is drag—at once campy and sincere, queer, tender, and winking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a629e29b-e890-4fb5-9922-c858b14d7aff/WoChan+Pearl_JustinJwee2-300x300.jpeg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - Wo Chan who performs as The Illustrious Pearl is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of Togetherness (2022). Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and elsewhere. As a member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, and the Architectural Digest Expo. Find them at @theillustriouspearl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/f7946175-98d6-4373-b4b6-251af05e1a4e/VILLAINY-FC-750x1200.jpg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - Harnessing street protest as a poetic formation, Villainy exhibits the desires that bring queers into public space. In order to live through the grief of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban, Villainy foments political action in public spaces, and indexes the various emotional states, such as rage, revelry, fear, grief, and desire to which queers must tend during protest. In scenes loaded with glitter, broken glass, and cum, Abi-Karam insists that in order to shatter the rising influence of new fascism we must embrace the collective work of antifascists, street medics, and queer exhibitionists and that the safety that we risk is reckless and necessary. Disruptive and demanding, these punk poems embody direct action and invite the audience into the desire-filled slippage between public sex and demonstration. At heart, Villainy aims to destroy all levels of hierarchy to establish a participatory, temporary autonomous zone in which the targeted other can thrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e8747f3e-2dd6-4d05-ba80-d216f93fa244/AAK_authorphoto_Credit-NICO-REANO-300x300.jpg Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - Selected by Simone White as Winner of the NOS Prize 2022 LAMBDA Literary Awards Finalist Andrea Abi-Karam is a trans, arab-american punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019) and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). Their second book, Villainy (Nightboat Books, Sept 2021) reimagines militant collectivity in the wake of the Ghost Ship Fire and the Muslim Ban. They are a leo obsessed with queer terror and convertibles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/c5d507f7-488a-42cd-954a-03c15e01953b/nightboat+logo-white.png Events - A Night with Nightboat Poets - Nightboat Books, a nonprofit organization, seeks to develop audiences for writers whose work resists convention and transcends boundaries, by publishing books rich with poignancy, intelligence and risk. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/whirlwind-rookery monthly 0.5 2023-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ac2fd842-96ce-463f-a1e5-03759a5f6263/Y1l9AJRR_400x400.jpg Events - Found You In the Whirlwind: Rookery Press - Recovering Lost and Forgotten Lessons Across Eras of Struggle We are pleased to welcome members of the Rookery Press to talk about their publishing project and about the knowledge they are committed to surfacing. The Rookery Press is a new publishing house that is dedicated to the task of unearthing and sharing works that have been suppressed and forgotten. The Rookery Press is committed to ensuring that this information becomes accessible. Their mission is to make available these lost and forgotten works and provide a new perspective on history, politics, and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/17d70854-8e51-470d-93bc-6e40914daec9/Collected+BLA+front.png Events - Found You In the Whirlwind: Rookery Press - Their newest book is The Collected Works of the Black Liberation Army, Vol. I, a collection of revolutionary literature penned by militants of the Black Liberation Army, an armed aspect of the Black revolutionary underground that debuted in 1970. As a deliberate consequence of the enemy state’s political repression against the BLA much literature and communications from this time have been lost. The Rookery Press has sought a number of these precious writings and reproduced them into this volume. Included are the Black Liberation Army dictionary and study guide, the essay “Organize for New Afrikan People’s War”, and dozens more primary documents produced during the BLA’s life. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/hard-crackers monthly 0.5 2023-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/bd33c0b5-87e2-4bd3-83d7-f389c80e8c29/HC+Word+Is+Change+3.22.23+FLYER.png Events - An Evening with Hard Crackers - Make it stand out Hard Crackers recognizes that American society is a time-bomb and that attentiveness to daily lives is essential for those who would like to act purposefully to change the world. Through a print journal and online blog, Hard Crackers chronicles everyday life and seeks to document people striving to overturn the mess we are in. Join Hard Crackers editors for readings from the journal and blog, followed by an open discussion. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/letter-writing-to-stop-cop-city monthly 0.5 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/7ecdee71-ccf0-49ef-8fed-db1ee9666b18/stop-cop-city-growth.png Events - Letter Writing to Stop Cop City Protesters with Art Workers Inquiry and Bed-Stuy Strong - In solidarity with the Mass Mobilization to Stop Cop City taking place the week of March 4-March 11, join Bed-Stuy Strong and Art Workers Inquiry at The Word is Change Friday, March 10 at 6:30 pm for an evening of letter writing. Supplies will be provided! Writing to our comrades is an essential way of contributing to struggle and keeping the fight going. We keep us safe! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/df64be01-675e-4ac8-bd77-385821e83986/poster-8511-print-woah-usethisone.jpg Events - Letter Writing to Stop Cop City Protesters with Art Workers Inquiry and Bed-Stuy Strong - What is Cop City? The Atlanta Police Foundation is trying to build the largest police training facility in the US in Weelaunee Forest, a watershed surrounded by primarily Black residents who overwhelmingly oppose the project. The plans include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/in-pursuit-of-revolutionay-love-joy-james monthly 0.5 2023-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/35f31e07-78da-44f2-bb17-0b5209baf1d5/IPORL+cover.jpg Events - In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love with Joy James and RAW - We are thrilled to welcome BLACK LIBERATION POLITICAL VISIONARY AND THEORIST JOY JAMES to celebrate the launch of her new book, in conversation with RAW! Mumia Abu-Jamal writes, “Joy James’s Revolutionary Love is umph-degree love; or love beyond measure. It is anything love. It is love without reckoning. It is love that dares all things, beyond which others may find the spirit-force to survive; to live to fight another day. Such love is also fighting itself, for the sake of ensuring that others may live.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/edd775d5-fec8-4763-bc8a-9050f99a4307/JJames.b%3Aw+photo.png Events - In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love with Joy James and RAW - The political theorist Joy James teaches at Williams College, Williamstown, MA. Editor of The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Imprisoned Intellectuals, The New Abolitionists and Warfare in the American Homeland. James is also author of Resisting State Violence, Transcending the Talented Tenth, Seeking the Beloved Community, and New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the Afterlife of Erica Garner (Common Notions, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9dcb6f65-1d0a-4e57-b7f5-f26f67087d02/RAW.jpeg Events - In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love with Joy James and RAW - Rebecca A. Wilcox (RAW) is a fourth year doctoral student at Princeton Theological Seminary concentrating in Religion and Society. Her research engages Black religion, Hauntology, and Critical Black Studies to explore anti-black antagonisms in underground economies. Wilcox received her Masters of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University, and a BA in Religion with a minor in Philosophy from Clark Atlanta University. Wilcox’s most recent publication is titled, “Distorted Mirrors: Toward a Clear Gaze on Black Suffering”, published by “The Immanent Frame.” https://www.thewordischange.com/events/how-to-be-a-social-activist monthly 0.5 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/e26e76fd-6307-41e4-94fb-07b447c4c2ce/How+to+be+a+Social+Activist.jpg Events - How To Be a Social Activist - Based on their own social action experiences, many kids—and adults—have asked Sophia Rückriegel (16) and Kilian Rückriegel (14) how youth can get involved in social action work. In response they wrote How to be a Social Activist: How to Plan, Launch, and Support Social Change in your Community and our World to help young people learn how to identify their social action passions and plan, launch, and support social action initiatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9af0f039-4333-4474-85fd-e45fdd1bce56/IMG_5414.jpg Events - How To Be a Social Activist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/essential-rise monthly 0.5 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/d9d53c8a-648b-4f1b-9a92-d4c768597f87/Essential+coverjpg.jpg Events - Essential & The Rise of a New Left with Jamie McCallum, Raina Lipsitz, and Isa Francisco - How essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, attracting a level of support unseen in decades. This explosion of labor unrest seemed sudden to many. But Essential reveals that American workers had simmered in discontent long before their anger boiled over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/83cd5d1d-e7e0-41dd-943d-c5cc22a16180/riseofanewleftcover.jpg Events - Essential & The Rise of a New Left with Jamie McCallum, Raina Lipsitz, and Isa Francisco - The mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America, Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and the outsized impact of the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all herald a new, youth-inflected radical politics. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/stayed-on-freedom monthly 0.5 2023-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/13f65c66-b70f-4bac-988a-2327f5acb1f6/Stayed+on+Freedom+cover.jpg Events - Stayed on Freedom: Dan Berger and Michael Simmons with Hafizah Augustus Geter - Dan Berger and Michael Simmons with Hafizah Augustus Geter We are thrilled to welcome Dan Berger and Michael Simmons in a conversation facilitated by Hafizah Augustus Geter to celebrate the publication of Stayed On Freedom, a new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers.  "Stayed On Freedom is a triumph of storytelling. Dan Berger generously offers an ever-blooming portrait of two people's struggle without reducing their story to struggle alone. This is a deeply loving, deeply caring text that is both tender and ferocious in approach."—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America https://www.thewordischange.com/events/no-pasaran-with-shane-burley-maia-ramnath-and-daryle-lamont-jenkins monthly 0.5 2023-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/aea4aef1-3dee-42d2-bb06-31dd8c60755c/No+Pasaran+cover.jpeg Events - No Pasaran with Shane Burley, Maia Ramnath, and Daryle Lamont Jenkins - “These writer-activists understand fascism to be a many-headed hydra that defies typologies and strongman tropes and can only be apprehended in the dialectic of resistance. Antifascism is not an exercise in abstract thinking but an active, collective struggle for a new world." —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination We are pleased to welcome Shane Burley, the editor of No Pasaran (AK Press, 2022), and several of the books’ contributors for an inspiring and necessary discussion that gathers lessons and voices from antifascist movements around the world to offer the next steps for the antifascist movement. Come learn how to respond to the insurgent far-right and what it means to build a large, intersectional network of coalitions to fight for a better future. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/upcoming-events monthly 0.5 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/25102aca-3a94-4a6c-861f-c8c2a205e9d0/IMG_4757.JPG Events - Upcoming Events (& past events) - If you’re seeing this we have some exciting events in the works, but aren’t ready to share all the details. Sign up for our email list and follow us on instagram to keep up on all that’s happening here. Keep scrolling to see what you missed or remind yourself of who spoke at an event you went to. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/wesley-brown-blue-in-green monthly 0.5 2022-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/ecc9a636-c64e-4df8-9909-382cbd53b711/blue+in+green+cover.jpg Events - Wesley Brown: Blue in Green - “One hell of a writer” —James Baldwin “Wonderfully wry” —Donald Barthelme “[A] writer’s writer” —Ishmael Reed The Word Is Change is thrilled to welcome Wesley Brown upon the publication of his new novel Blue in Green. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/marilyn-nance-last-day-in-lagos monthly 0.5 2022-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/2d1f7da6-c8ae-4ce9-acf2-1b21a53940e7/last+day+cover.jpg Events - Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos - Please join us as we celebrate the publication of Marilyn Nance’s Last Day in Lagos, a focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC’77 festival From January 15 to February 12, 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, also known as FESTAC’77. Taking place in the heyday of Nigeria’s oil wealth and following the African continent’s potent decade of decolonization, FESTAC’77 was the peak of Pan-Africanist expression. Among the musicians, writers, artists and cultural leaders in attendance were Ellsworth Ausby, Milford Graves, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Samella Lewis, Audre Lorde, Winnie Owens, Miriam Makeba, Valerie Maynard, Queen Mother Moore and Sun Ra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9e578ef3-8605-4e3f-bbe9-6e6a41d1d628/Last+Day+photo+plane.jpg Events - Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos - Over the course of five decades, Marilyn Nance (born 1953) has produced images of unique moments in the cultural history of the US and the African Diaspora. Nance is a two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Library of Congress, and has been published in The World History of Photography, History of Women in Photography and The Black Photographers Annual. She lives in Brooklyn. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/margaret-killjoy-we-wont-be-here-tomorrow monthly 0.5 2022-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/36d33f57-e1a5-459f-8b45-193e457b0dcd/Killjoy+square.png Events - Margaret Killjoy: We Won't Be Here Tomorrow - “For this impressive collection, Killjoy brings together 21 speculative shorts tinged with just the right amount of horror to keep readers gloriously uncomfortable… Throughout, Killjoy showcases her gift for blending cerebral speculation with visceral thrills. There’s plenty to chew on here.” —Publishers Weekly "With indelible characters, unruly worlds, and lively wry prose, the stories in We Won't Be Here Tomorrow insist on motivations, desires, actions, and affinities unbound by conventional expectations." —Madeline Ffitch, author of Stay and Fight: A Novel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a9b4caa2-5f2a-42f9-a1be-01dfc748ecc2/Killjoy+photo.png Events - Margaret Killjoy: We Won't Be Here Tomorrow - Margaret Killjoy is a transfeminine author born and raised in Maryland who was spent her adult life traveling with no fixed home. A 2015 graduate of Clarion West, Margaret’s short fiction has been published by Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Vice’s Terraform, and Fireside Fiction, amongst others. She is the author of A Country of Ghosts, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, and The Barrow Will Send What it May. She is also the host of the podcast Live Like the World is Dying and Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff on iHeartRadio. She is based in rural West Virginia. https://www.thewordischange.com/events/emerald-garner-finding-my-voice-book-launch monthly 0.5 2022-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/9cc8f498-435f-4add-876c-8836772d50f5/Finding+My+Voice+Book+Cover.jpg Events - Emerald Garner: Finding My Voice Book Launch - In this unforgettable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father’s cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence. She begins with the morning of July 17, 2014—a rare day off from work, one she had hoped to enjoy with rest and family, that quickly turned her world inside out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/a74e550a-4736-43bd-acff-3183dca26089/Emerald+Garner+%28c%29+Javon+Acree+IMU+Media.jpg Events - Emerald Garner: Finding My Voice Book Launch - Emerald Snipes-Garner is the youngest daughter of Esaw Snipes Garner and Eric Garner, who was murdered at the hands of a now former police officer Daniel Pantaleo in 2014 and is the Executive Director of the nonprofit We Can’t Breathe Inc., which is inspired by her father, Eric Garner, and her sister Erica Garner. She has become the leading voice in the fight for justice for her father and has vowed to never stop fighting laws and policies that help police officers get away with murder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/6092f400-88a1-4d39-90f8-d504b4ce146a/Etan+Thomas+%28c%29+Danae+Hampton+%281%29.jpg Events - Emerald Garner: Finding My Voice Book Launch - Etan Thomas, a former eleven-year NBA player, was born in Harlem and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has published multiple books including We Matter: Athletes and Activism (voted among the top ten books on activism by BookAuthority) and More Than an Athlete, Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge, and Voices of the Future. Thomas was honored for social justice advocacy as the recipient of the 2010 National Basketball Players Association Community Contribution Award, as well as the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation Legacy Award. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post and on Huffington Post, CNN, and ESPN. He can be frequently seen on MSNBC and he cohosts a weekly local radio show, The Collision, on WPFW about the place where sports and politics collide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611aab45c3ce8c31376a374d/3da06525-5af6-48ef-a9d3-4e8b1d475b06/Monet+Dunham+%28c%29+Jamila+Dunham.jpg Events - Emerald Garner: Finding My Voice Book Launch - Born and raised in New York, with a BA in Theater/Psychology from Vassar College and an MS in Special Education from Adelphi University, Monet Dunham is a retired multiple award-winning teacher of special needs students. Monet is also a musician, singer/songwriter, actor, film director, and film casting director. Prior to retiring she often used her artistic training and talents to implement programs for her students including those legally blind, non verbal, and emotionally and/or physically homebound by using music, technology, and other creative means to help facilitate and make learning enjoyable. As an actor Monet has played key roles in several projects including Just Another Girl On the IRT (1992) now considered a cult classic, New Jersey Drive (1995), recent independent films Love Don't Last Forever (2019) and multiple festival award–winning My King (2021), and the very popular 2018 web series Best Frenemies. As a casting director, Monet cast Hal King the Movie (2021). As a musician, Monet has released two full-length projects and one EP. Songs from these projects have been featured on the following television shows Criminal Minds (CBS, now in syndication and on Hulu), The Mindy Project (FOX, now on Hulu), The Hill (Sundance Channel), and the Weather Channel. Monet has played flute on more than thirty projects and performed on stage with many artists, including Eric Roberson, Sy Smith, Tarrah Reynolds, and the late GURU, and has recorded with Angela Johnson, DJ Spinna, Ty Causey ,Tortured Soul, and many more. 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