This event is in the past.It took place on May 15, 2026 at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.
Literature TalkLiterature TalkTwo poets dissect how history hurts. Ghalya Saadawi and Olivia Tapiero weave essays and verse through colonial extraction, disaster, and cosmological grief at this iconic literary venue.
intimate literary reading
thought-provoking
historic venue
contemporary poetry
Tips
⛪oldest religious house of worship in NYC, founded 1660
🪦Peter Stuyvesant and Daniel Tompkins buried in the courtyard
📜Sam Shepard's first play performed here in the 1960s
$10
Ghalya Saadawi + Olivia Tapiero
East Village
Literature TalkLiterature TalkTwo poets dissect how history hurts. Ghalya Saadawi and Olivia Tapiero weave essays and verse through colonial extraction, disaster, and cosmological grief at this iconic literary venue.
intimate literary reading
thought-provoking
historic venue
contemporary poetry
Tips
⛪oldest religious house of worship in NYC, founded 1660
🪦Peter Stuyvesant and Daniel Tompkins buried in the courtyard
📜Sam Shepard's first play performed here in the 1960s
$10
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