Reading List
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Dear America By Jose Antonio Vargas
In “Dear America,” Jose Antonio Vargas shares his journey of living as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. for nearly twenty years while working for prominent media outlets. By revealing his status, Vargas explores complex questions surrounding American…
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Devil In A Blue Dress By Walter Mosley
In “Devil In A Blue Dress” by Walter Mosley, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran recently dismissed from his job, is approached in a bar by a white man offering a lucrative assignment to find Daphne Money, a…
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Patron Saints Of Nothing By Randy Ribay
Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part…
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Noli Me Tangere By Jose Rizal
Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal is a seminal Philippine novel that intertwines a passionate love story with the harsh realities of political repression and violence. As the first significant artistic expression of Asian resistance to European colonialism,…
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The Prince Of Tide – Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy’s classic novel stings with honesty and resounds with drama. Spanning forty years, it’s the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah,
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The Body Papers By Grace Talusan
Young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face.
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Lakas and the Manilatown Fish by Anthony D. Robles
A young boy named Lakas discovers that a fish from his dreams might be real—leading him on a lively, magical chase through San Francisco’s Manilatown.
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Witch Hunts and Tribunals
In Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici argues that capitalism did not simply emerge as an economic system—it required the deliberate remaking of the human being. Central to this transformation was the invention of the “body as machine”:…
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Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry- by Pedro Pietri
By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a sense of pride and nationalism and were embraced by the generation of Latino poets that followed him. Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry gathers the most enduring and treasured work…
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In The Absence Of Belief – by Joel Beverly
In “In the Absence of Belief,” entrepreneur Joel Beverly and partner Fern journey from East Kentucky to various global locations, unraveling myths surrounding success and identity. This memoir-travelogue invites readers to embrace authenticity and presence, promoting a deeper…
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A Practical Guide to Sigbin Keeping: A Cozy Fantasy on the Island of Fire, Siquijor By Mitos Suson
In “Siquijor,” Leklek Rosal returns to her enchanted island, discovering her childhood imaginary friend is real and she possesses hidden powers. With her grandmother and friends, she uncovers ancient magic while confronting dark forces. This tale intertwines Filipino…
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A Doorbell, A Dictator, A Dad By Mitos Suson
In the 1960s and 70s Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippine Islands with the closed fist of a dictator. Families lived in fear, dissenters, political rivals and trouble makers were tossed into Manila’s Fort Bonifacio Prison to face an…
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Black Heaven – by Kim McMillon
Black Heaven is a visionary theatrical experiment set in a celestial salon where Black artists, thinkers, and ancestors gather across time.
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Love Is Infinite – A Book Review
In “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert explores the complexities of human emotions and choices. Despite a seemingly perfect life, she felt unfulfilled until she sought self-discovery through spirituality. The memoir illustrates her journey across eating, praying, and loving,…
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Celebrate We Gullah Geechee – by Yvette R. Murray, illustrated by Tonya Engel
With rhythm and repetition to engage children, five narrators take turns highlighting what they notice in their world, each focusing on one of the five senses. We are there with them:A girl sees a “haint blue door at…
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown. It explores the history of American expansionism in the American West in the late nineteenth…
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Soup For The Storm – Tony Robles
“This collection is based on my experiences and observations as someone who witnessed Hurricane Helene and its impact on the community—particularly my mobile home community in Hendersonville,”
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PhilippineGenreStories.com – Filipino Arts
Philippine Genre Stories includes a plethora of Filippino authors in a wide range of genres, giving those who are interested a large pallet to explore.
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The Greatest Fight of Sunny Grenada and Other Stories By Kenneth Yu
Yu has a knack for subverting expectations, crafting twists that are as surprising as they are inevitable . . . His worlds and characters—whether human or otherwise—are vast yet intimate, alien yet achingly familiar. This is a collection…
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The Shan Van featuring Mikey Cullen
The Shan Van (feat. Mikey Cullen) was released on February 7, 2025 by Vocht Records as a part of the album The Shan Van (feat. Mikey Cullen) – EP
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Mouths to Speak, Voices to Sing By Kenneth Yu
This anthology is a collection of unpredictable stories of various genres—fantasy, science fiction, crime, horror and the supernatural—that touch on courage and fear, loss and resolution, denial and honesty, despair and hope…from an author who writes about being…
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Tar Baby, edited by Ishmael Reed
A journal dedicated to amplifying diverse voices, fostering critical discourse, and celebrating the rich tapestry of global arts and ideas.
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Writers Across Oceans – Writing Workshop
Writers Across Oceans invites writers to our first ever writers’ retreat “Writers Across Oceans: A Healing Session” in Waimea, Hawai’i. This event offers an opportunity for creation, fellowship, reflection, relaxation, and daydreaming amidst beautiful surroundings.
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The Crying Book By Heather Christle
Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the…
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Sisters Across Oceans Edited By Karla Brundage
The idea for this collection, Sisters Across Oceans, was inspired by the much needed conversation between influential Black women across the diaspora.
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Blood Lies Race Traitor By Karla Brundage
Karla Brundage’s Blood Lies: Race Trait(or) is about race. It is about the history of race, about imposed racial definitions like mulatto and quadroon.
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Memoir Of A Race Traitor By Mab Segrest
Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey
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Our Spirits Carry Our Voices Edited By Karla Brundage
“Our Spirits Carry Our Voices is a remarkable work: a travelogue in poetry, charting a journey that is spiritual as well as geographic. The linked poems are intensely personal, yet filled with historical and political resonance.
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Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Based on an Athabascan legend passed along from mother to daughter for many generations on the upper Yukon River in Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story–with a surprise ending–of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating…
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The Society Of Spectacle – Guy Debord
Guy Debord’s 1967 critiques consumer capitalism and modern media, asserting that social life is dominated by representations, or “the spectacle.”
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Anarchism And The Black Evolution
The Listen and Be Heard Hour features episode s4e8 on February 26th, 2026, discussing “Anarchism and the Black Revolution,” a pivotal 1979 work by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. This text connects Black radicalism to anarchist theory, examining issues of…
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Swallowing Watermelons – Karla Brundage
Swallowing Watermelons is Karla Brundage´s first published poetry collection and contains almost twenty years of her writing. Her poems are deeply honest, personal reflections–vivid stories from the heart cut to the bone. Moving between Hawaii, the mainland United…
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Black Lantern Books & The Legacy Library
The Legacy Library and Black Lantern Books is an effort to preserve the life long collections of texts that Kwazi Nkrumah started collecting in the 1950’s. Near the end of his life, Kwazi wanted to make his collection…
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Bless The Blood: A Cancer Memoir
“Bless the Blood” is a young adult memoir combining poetry and essays that reflects the author’s journey with leukemia. It challenges misconceptions about cancer and the healthcare system, while addressing intergenerational trauma. The work explores themes of violence,…
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Black Rootedness – Karla Brundage
Black Rootedness, an anthology, is a culmination of workshops in Africa and America featuring the poets included, and shares experiences of foreigner/returnee, neo-African, borrower of phrases, and experimenter of styles that shape-and will continue to shape-the vibrant exchange…
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Mulatta—Not So Tragic – Karla Brundage
Written in an exchange with Dr. Allision Francisc, “Mulatta—Not So Tragic” embraces and emphasizes the importance of friendship, conversation, criticism, and love between creatives. In this time, of Black Girl Magic, a book about Black Girl Friendship seems…
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Phys Fest NYC
PhysFestNYC, launched in January 2024, celebrates physical theater through performances and workshops. Born from grassroots funding, it aims to support under-resourced artists in NYC. The inaugural festival featured 143 artists across 10 days, hosting 7 events daily. It…
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Song of the Simple Truth, The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos
Song of the Simple Truth (Canción de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos’ complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark—the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition…
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Malleus Maleficarum – Sprenger / Kramer
Early Christian authorities initially dismissed witchcraft as a delusion, though belief in demons and exorcism created a framework that later justified harsher responses. In the late fifteenth century, Heinrich Kramer authored Malleus Maleficarum after failing to secure convictions…
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry. As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we…