This event is free.

Cracked Walnut presents the fifth literary event of our fall reading series, If We Wanted To”. It is important to be mindful of the context of this reading and its location. This reading is located on the lands of Indigenous communities and will take place in Minneapolis’ Historic Northside community, in the UROC art gallery. UROC is located on the same block of the 4th precinct, were thousands of people occupied in protest of the murder of Jamar Clark who was killed just blocks away.

Featuring:
Jody Lulich
Kasey Payette
Lula Saleh
Nicola Xavier Koh
Sahra Sabri
Anaïs Deal-Márquez

Hosted by Marion Gomez

The theme of this reading reflects upon the following Nayyirah Waheed poem:

“if we
wanted
to.
people of color
could
burn the world down.
for what
we
have experienced.
are experiencing.
but
we don’t.
— how stunningly beautiful that our sacred respect for the earth is deeper than our rage. “