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KSW @Undiscovered X: Barbara Jane Reyes and Jason Bayani

A reading and conversation to celebrate Barbara’s newest, Letters to a Young Brown Girl! Originally featured at Undiscovered X on 10/17/20. A collaboration between Balay Kreative and Kearny Street Workshop.

KSW Artistic Director, Jason Bayani, writes of Barbara Jane Reyes’s latest collection of poems, “There is nothing gentle about the disturbance Barbara creates in Letters to a Young Brown Girl. It is meant to be as unrelenting as the power structures it works against. Yeah it’s pissed, yeah it says f*ck more than a few times, but this book asks for more than anger, it requires movement. It is meant to shake, to shudder, to transform.”