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🦁 @bryannoogin joins us tonight! 🦁

Bryan Andrew Nguyen is a poet based in Jersey City and has been featured at the Hudson Park Library, Sakura Series, and What’s the Word. Once, on a flight, he watched A Cinderella Story (three times in a row) without headphones.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This event is also funded in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. taken in Ursula BK by @exquisitesbk

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🦁 @sheeennen joins us tomorrow at @ursula_brooklyn 🦁

Shannon Pulusan is a Fil-Am writer, illustrator, plant tita, and arts education administrator based in Jersey City. Her poetics explore how foodways, typos, and the natural world can offer reparative insight and joy.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This event is also funded in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. taken in Ursula BK by @exquisitesbk

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♌️ @myamatteoalexice joins us tomorrow! ♌️

Mya Matteo Alexice is a Black and white Cave Canem fellow and academic studying Black romantic life. Matteo’s poems have appeared in publications such as Pleiades, The Rumpus, swamp pink, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, diode, and elsewhere.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This event is also funded in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. taken in Ursula BK by @exquisitesbk

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♌️ @david.m.deleon joins us on Thursday at @ursula_brooklyn ♌️

David M. de León is a Puerto Rican writer, academic, and performer. Their first book of criticism, Black Epic: Poetics in the Time of Black Lives Matter, is coming out next year. They are starting a job as assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno in the fall.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This event is also funded in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. taken in Ursula BK by @exquisitesbk

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♌️It’s that time again! Join us on August 6th at @ursula_brooklyn for our annual Leo Special featuring Leo after Leo reading to our fans 🦁 taken in Ursula BK by @exquisitesbk

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Tomorrow! With @yokonon0 !

Noa Mendoza is a Peruvian/American poet who works in translation. Their first chapbook of experimental translation, radio fantasmal/fantasy radio, was published with Wendy’s Subway in 2023, and other work appears in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Brooklyn Rail, and most recently through New Mundo press. They are interested in lap swimming, cooking dinner together, and teaching.

The garden includes a path that connects different areas of the site and offers an alternative to the stairs for wheelchair users and other mobility devices. A portable restroom will be available on site.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. This event is also funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. by @exquisitesbk

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Tomorrow! With @vi333nto in Jardin Santa Cecilia Gentili!

viento izquierdo ugaz (b. 1992, Lima, Perú) [they/he] is a trans/disciplinary artist/organizer, poet, medium & language justice worker. Through writing, photography & thread, they address the burden of imposed migration that has woven its threads into the visual tapestry of their lineage.

They are a co-organizer of BODYHACK, a mutual aid platform for trans people; TRANSMISSION, NYC’s first trans music festival; and the Visual Art Field Coordinator at Queer|Art. Izquierdo-Ugaz is also a member of Mil Mundos Books Colectiva. He is a 2020-21 Poetry Project Curatorial Fellow and a 2025 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grantee. Their first chapbook is Estoy Tristeza (No Dear, 2018). They are a person in perpetual movement between Queens and Perú.

The garden includes a path that connects different areas of the site and offers an alternative to the stairs for wheelchair users and other mobility devices. A portable restroom will be available on site.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. This event is also funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. by @exquisitesbk

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Thursday! With Gabriel Carle (@gabriel__carle ) !

Gabriel Carle (San Juan, 1993) completed a BA in Escritura Creativa at UPR-Río Piedras and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU. Current research interests center on disaster poetics, queerness, race, gender, and migration in Caribbean expressive cultures, while their dissertation analyzes Boricua art and literature in the wake of hurricane María. They also teach Spanish language and courses on Caribbean cultures at NYU.

Their literary fiction work has received awards from the University of Puerto Rico (2013, 2016) and the University of Houston (2019), and has been published or anthologized in Puerto Rico, United States, Spain, and Germany. Book publications include a short story collection, Mala leche (Alayubia, 2018), translated into English by Heather Houde as Bad Seed (Feminist Press, 2024), and a novel, Folly (Alayubia, 2024). In 2025, they received a Letras Boricuas Fellowship for Fiction.

The garden includes a path that connects different areas of the site and offers an alternative to the stairs for wheelchair users and other mobility devices. A portable restroom will be available on site.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. This event is also funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. by @exquisitesbk

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Cristóbal Guerra (@farifos ) joins us this Thursday for our Poets in Translation reading at El Jardin de Santa Celcila. Cristóbal is a Boricua filmmaker, writer, and language justice worker working across experimental cinema and movement-based language access. His practice uses critical fabulation to approach queer mythologies and archives as unstable, untranslated terrains.

The garden includes a path that connects different areas of the site and offers an alternative to the stairs for wheelchair users and other mobility devices. A portable restroom will be available on site.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. This event is also funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. by @exquisitesbk

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NEW DATE! The heat storm has broken and we’re on for our Poets in Translation reading this Thursday, July 9th at El Jardin de Santa Cecilia Gentili, co-ogranized with viento izquierdo ugaz and Cristóbal Guerra, who will be reading with Gabriel Carle and Noa Mendoza.

The garden includes a path that connects different areas of the site and offers an alternative to the stairs for wheelchair users and other mobility devices. A portable restroom will be available on site.

This exquisites reading is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. This event is also funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. by @exquisitesbk

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🌞 tonight! Outside at @ursula_brooklyn with Julia Renee! 🌞

Julia Renee is a poet & dreamer based in Brooklyn NY

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This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. taken in Ursula BK by @exquisitesbk

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