Join us at Haymarket House for live readings from Shredding Rugs, and guided conversation exploring truth-telling, resilience, and the healing power of language. About the Book Shredding Rugs is a bold, tender, and unapologetic poetry collection that speaks directly to the hearts of Black and Brown girls who have been left unprotected, overlooked, and underestimated. Through […]

Join Desiree Cooper, MARS. Marshall and J.K. Chukwu for a conversation about Cooper’s new edited collection, Black Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors. About the Book Black Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors is a provocative, tender, literary collection of essays, poetry, and graphic stories about how racism shapes life in the urban outdoors. African American writers […]

Join Kali Rubaii and Juan González in a discussion about Rubai’s new release, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq. About the Book Resurgency examines how Iraqi farmers outlast the long shadow of US military intervention as they return to repair their war-damaged homeland. Based on detailed ethnographic research, Kali Rubaii expands the temporal and descriptive definitions of […]