Reimagining the Beloved: Love Poems to X Presented by City Lore

On the most rosy of holidays and in this dark time, City Lore invites you to RETHINK the love poem and REIMAGINE the beloved. Have you anti-love poems? Love poems to resistance? To self/self-care? Ghazals for Gaza and lyrics for labor rights? Who is your beloved? Share with City Lore’s Reimagining the Beloved: Love Poems to X!

READING | Featured poets:

Arhm Choi, Kundiman Fellow and Slam Poet Vikas Menon, one of the co-writers of the comic Priya’s Shakti and the shadow puppet play Feathers of Fire Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, 2016 Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion Fellow Zohra Saed, editor of the chapbook: Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos and Notebook from Turkestan Paul Tran, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and Poet-In-Residence at Urban Word

NYC WRITING | Wall of Love:

Audience will be invited to write and add a poem to the Wall of Love.

SHARING | BYOP:

Bring Your Own Poem - a short love poem written by you or by someone else. We shall exchange! $5 at the door | Refreshments will be served

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