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Poetry Reading & Author Talk with Tramaine Suubi and Rasheeda Saka.
Wed, Apr 16
|Cafe con Libros, Bk.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are excited to host Tramaine Suubi in dialgoue with Rasheeda Saka about her new book "Phases."
Time & Location
Apr 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Cafe con Libros, Bk., 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
About the Event
About the Book: In this electrifying debut poetry collection—written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah—a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full.
Both intimate and intricately structured Tramaine Suubi’s remarkable work is inspired by the moon—its phases’ effects on water, the Earth, and our bodies. Phases relishes in the beauty of change, even that caused by heartbreak. Suubi’s refreshing, vulnerable verse begs to be underlined, memorized, and shared; each of her poems operate as love letters to the cyclical healing that occurs in nature, in our bodies, and in the bodies that have come before us.
About the Author: Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of phases and stages. She has also published creative writing in over fifteen literary anthologies,…
Tickets
- Sale ends: Apr 16, 8:30 PM
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$5.00 - Sale ends: Apr 16, 8:30 PM
GA + Signed Book.
General admission + signed book.
$24.99 - Sale ends: Apr 16, 8:30 PM
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