Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library

LINK TO EVENT HERE – VIRTUAL AND FREE

Join me tomorrow APRIL 15 at 7pm ET with @nypl as I feature for Poetry month! Words still mean something, my loves. Let’s use them to act up & fight back. Please drink water, please love your kindreds, please build mutual aid connections.💙

Nothing but Free Palestine, Free every person abducted from Mahmood Khalil to Rumeysa Ozturk, free Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia!

Poet Kay Ulanday-Barrett returns for another series of author readings and Q&A for National Poetry Month.

KAY ULANDAY BARRETT (he/they/siya) is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are a 2024 Disabled Futures Fellow selected by Ford Foundation, Melon Foundation, & United States Artists. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a 2022 Next Book Residency with Tin House, a James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell, 2024 James Baldwin for the Arts Fellow, and 2023 Millay Arts Fellowship awarded by Lambda Literary. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Colorlines, Literary Hub, The Advocate, Poetry Unbound, Split This Rock, Al Jazeera, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, The Lily, and elsewhere