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"Plantains and Our Becoming" with author, Melania Luisa Marte & Cleyvis Natera.
Fri, Sep 15
|St Ann & Holy Trinity Church
Please join us to welcome two beautiful, Afro-Dominican writers and creators to celebrate the debut poetry book, "Plantains and Our Becoming."
Time & Location
Sep 15, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
St Ann & Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
About the Event
About the Book:
A powerful poetry collection in the vein of BLACK GIRL CALL HOME and IF THEY COME FOR US, about identity, culture, home and belonging.
PLANTAINS AND OUR BECOMING is an imaginative, blistering, beautifully written poetry collection about identity and history on the island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to celebrate and center the Black Diasporic experience.
Through the exploration of the themes of self-love, nationalism, displacement, generational traumas, and ancestral knowledge, this collection uproots Black stereotypes while creating a new joyous vision for Black identity and personhood, one that is deeply grounded in the heirlooms and teachings of Black celebration as well as preservation.
The collection is structured in the following sections: Part I: Daughter of Diaspora, exploring immigration and identity within the U.S. Part II: A History of Plantains, exploring the aftermath of colonialism, displacement and gentrification for Afro-descendants.
About the Author: