Literature TalkLiterature TalkDeveloping a Lexicon Toward Liberation: Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, Tyehimba Jess, and Frank X Walker
At New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)Central Ward, Newark
✍️Bring a notebook for favorite lines
🎤Q&A usually follows the reading
☕Grab coffee before, it's an early start
Three powerful voices explore how language can become a tool for liberation. Acosta, Jess, and Walker dismantle and rebuild meaning in verses that challenge, comfort, and inspire.
Social justice poetry
Spoken word
Literary festival
Black poets
Literature TalkLiterature TalkDeveloping a Lexicon Toward Liberation: Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, Tyehimba Jess, and Frank X Walker
At New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)Central Ward, Newark
✍️Bring a notebook for favorite lines
🎤Q&A usually follows the reading
☕Grab coffee before, it's an early start
Three powerful voices explore how language can become a tool for liberation. Acosta, Jess, and Walker dismantle and rebuild meaning in verses that challenge, comfort, and inspire.
Social justice poetry
Spoken word
Literary festival
Black poets