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
📚"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
📚"don't miss the baby book about Tupac, cause you gotta start them young"
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