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Brooklyn Poetry Slam
Wednesdays, January 15 and February 5, 7–9 pm
Thursdays, March 13 and April 24, 7–9 pm
Amplify the voices of Brooklyn at a series of pay-what-you-can slams, presented by poets and cofounders Mahogany L. Browne and DJ Jive Poetic. Come to listen to poets, or arrive early to sign up if you’d like to join the slam (limited availability).
New to slam poetry? Read Mahogany L. Browne’s advice for emerging slam poets.
Brooklyn Reads: In Open Contempt with Irvin Weathersby Jr. and Robert Jones Jr.
Thursday, January 16, 7–9 pm
How do we reckon with ongoing anti-Black racism in the United States when symbols of it are all around us? From graffitied pedestals of Confederate statues in Virginia to the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota to a former sugar factory here in Brooklyn, cultural critic Irvin Weathersby Jr. considers the specter of white supremacy in public spaces.
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From the top: August Edouart. Cut Silhouette of Two Women Facing Right, ca. 1835. Paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Emily Winthrop Miles, 64.195.97. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Brooklyn Poetry Slam. (Photo: Kolin Mendez); Cover of In Open Contempt, 2025. (Photo: Courtesy of the author and Penguin Random House); Arthur Leipzig. Johnny on the Pony, 1943. Gelatin silver print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 86.152.7. © artist or artist’s estate. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Images courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum Shop
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