Posted on May 15, 2023
You're invited to two virtual events with award-winning author and "artivist" Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, co-hosted by WWB Campus and the Brooklyn Public Library!
Posted on May 09, 2023
You probably already know that May is AAPI Heritage Month, but in several parts of the country, including New York and Boston, it is also officially Haitian Heritage Month! To join the celebration, meet Haitian author and community-builder Évelyne Trouillot and get started on her story of worlds colliding in Port-au-Prince with multimedia context, teaching ideas, and a video interview.
Posted on May 01, 2023
Pop quiz: What does the Chinese idiom "Nine cows and one strand of hair" mean? If you don't yet know, you're not alone—non-English cultures can sometimes get short shrift in U.S. schools, but that is slowly beginning to change.
Posted on April 17, 2023
This National Poetry Month, consider the powerful poetry of Amina Saïd, who takes on essential questions about life and fate, vision and blindness, death and memory. Marilyn Hacker's lucid translation will help students connect with these universal elements, as well as with the vivid sensory details, in Saïd's series “Clairvoyant in the City of the Blind,” which appeared in an issue of Words Without Borders featuring women authors from Tunisia.
Posted on March 22, 2023
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A modern classic of Latinx migration literature, a contemporary Russian story about parental alcoholism: what could they possibly have in common?