From Cuba, a Tale of a Baseball-Playing Shape-Shifter
Posted on May 25, 2023
“I came to see you, doctor, because sometimes my soul leaves my body and reappears in the body of a baseball player in a tight situation.”
2 Free Virtual Events with Puerto Rican Author Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro on June 14th & 21st
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!
May is Haitian Heritage Month
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.
Cows and Pockets: 10 Chinese Idioms for AAPI Heritage Month
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.
Amina Saïd's Border-Defying Poetry
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.