Conjuring The Poem

Wed Oct 15 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Sister's Uptown Bookstore | New York

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Conjuring The Poem
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Afrodiasporic Haint Elegies for Naming the Unspeakable
About this Event

In this generative writing workshop we will engage the poetry, ghost stories and spectral/ spiritual modalities of Afro-Diasporic and Black Southern traditions. Take a journey through the elegy as a portal to ancestral re/membering, radical reordering and divine healing


What does mean to be haunted?

What does it mean to be the haunt?


Join us Wednesday October 15th at Sisters Uptown

6-8pm * Free -$15 sliding scale.


Led by X Olamina ,Minnie Mars, and Scarlet Gomez


“Like haints, Black women are often relegated to frightening caricatures, vengeful when angered, hags when old, unmarried, or eccentric, banshees when loud or wailing…Black women are misnamed, haints are misshapen, so much is done to quell the call, it may be difficult to hear or see that haints, like Black women, may be calling for something to be done.” - drea brown

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Sister's Uptown Bookstore, 1942 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States

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