About Beauty
Folger Shakespeare Library
In-person
Two Events
Join award-winning poet María Fernanda (published in The Rumpus, Luna Luna Magazine, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4) for an afternoon workshop and an evening reading. Originally from Northeast DC, María Fernanda has read her work to international audiences in Nikiti, Moscow, and Hamburg.
Workshop: 3-4pm
During the afternoon, María Fernanda will host a poetry workshop with generative writing exercises in the Learning Lab. Inspired by the Folger’s collection of Shakespeare’s First Folios, this workshop invites participants to compose their own poems using her writing prompts and to bind their own three-sheet folio.
Reading: 5:30-6:30pm
In the evening, María Fernanda will take the stage in the Theatre to read poems from her own work and from the poets who have influenced her (Nikki Giovanni, Robin Coste Lewis, and others), and will present the poems created earlier in the day by workshop participants.
Malcolm X’s Legacy in Verse and Sound
National Museum of African America History and Culture
In-person
One Day
Experience Malcolm X’s enduring influence through spoken word and live jazz in the dynamic program presented in partnership with the American Poetry Museum, hosted by award-winning poet María Fernanda
Seen, Sound, Scribe
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
In-person
Reoccurring
This edition features Tre G, DJ Sweat, and María Fernanda. Brooklyn’s Mahogany L. Browne, a prolific writer and important advocate for public art, is Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence. She has written works of fiction, stage plays and critical essays to accompany her half-dozen poetry collections and another six anthologies as editor. Browne's recently released book-length poem, I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love, explores the binding and boundaries of incarceration.
For Browne’s Seen, Sound, Scribe series, she curates thought-provoking and politically driven evenings of spoken word, spirited conversation, and presentations of new work.