About this Event
The Free Black Women's Library is a literary hub, reading room, Black Feminist archive, and community care space that features a free store, period pantry, backyard garden, reading club, weekly book swap, and a wide array of free public programs, as well as a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women and Black nonbinary authors.
This social art project was created by artist and cultural worker OlaRonke Akinmowo in 2015, and is funded by merchandise sales and direct donations.
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The Free Black Women's Library
presents
Boomboxes in the Rain: Reviving the Love Poem Through R&B
Saturday, October 17
3PM - 5PM
Join us as we celebrate Black Poetry Day with a poetry writing workshop for Black women and Black nonbinary folks dedicated to our love for R & B music!!
We’ll be using this workshop to prove that love poetry isn’t dead. Not yet. We’re studying the poetry of lyrics and musicality in the written word. The love-driven politic and the politic of love. We’re reminding the pleasurable interior of our lives that it is worth writing about.
The line between the genres and concepts are already paper thin; we’re blurring them even further.
Facilitator's Bio:
Edythe Rodriguez is a poet, creative copywriter, hardcore Bustelo drinker and non-violent Beyhive member living in Brooklyn. She’s the author of We, the Spirits, which won the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest as well a 2023 Ruth Lilly finalist. Edythe has received fellowships from Hurston/Wright, The Watering Hole, Brooklyn Poets, and more. She studied creative writing and Black Studies at Temple University and got her MFA in creative writing from Randolph College.
You can stalk her life at edytherodriguez.com.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Free Black Women's Library Reading Room, 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn, United States
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