This event is in the past.It took place on February 5, 2026 at The Word Is Change.
Four Black femme poets take the stage at this beloved Bed-Stuy bookstore, each unpacking grief, girlhood, and Southern lineage through verse. It's a night that celebrates how vast Black poetics can be, intimate and unapologetically specific.
Poetry reading
Black femme artists
Community bookstore
Social justice space
Tips
đź“š"don't miss the baby book about Tupac, cause you gotta start them young"
Black Abstractions: A Poetry Reading
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Four Black femme poets take the stage at this beloved Bed-Stuy bookstore, each unpacking grief, girlhood, and Southern lineage through verse. It's a night that celebrates how vast Black poetics can be, intimate and unapologetically specific.
Poetry reading
Black femme artists
Community bookstore
Social justice space
Tips
đź“š"don't miss the baby book about Tupac, cause you gotta start them young"
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