In this presentation, Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman, one a Chicana poet from New Mexico, the other a Jewish New Yorker, both lifelong writers and activists, will share through dialogue and poems their different backgrounds, their origins in different eras— Sherman in the Sixties and Martínez in the Sanctuary Movement in the Eighties—and their work in their respective communities. Believing as they do that poetry at its best uses words that can reach below the surface of empty rhetoric to communicate on a deeper level, they consider it instrumental to building community. This program will include a Q&A with the audience.

This event will take place in person at Hudson Park Library. Space is limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.