Saida Agostini presents her debut collection of poetry, let the dead in, at Red Emma’s bookstore in Baltimore. Audacious, sensual, and grieving, this work explores how Black women harness the fantastic to craft their own road to freedom. A journey across Guyana, London, and the United States, it is a meditation on black womanhood, queerness, the […]
Read MoreSaida Agostini and a panel of fellow poets will read poems addressing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Light refreshments will be served.
Read MoreNational Museum of Women in the Arts Join us for a dynamic live reading of Saida Agostini’s poetry collection STUNT (2020), a reimagining of the life of Nellie Jackson, an early twentieth century brothel owner, freedom fighter, and entrepreneur. Literary maven Lisa Pegram will lead the reading, which will also feature Agostini and performing artists Holly Bass, […]
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