The next discussion of writings by BIPOC Authors will be Monday, December 29, 2025 at 6 pm.

During the last month of the year, we read poetry – to reflect, as one year ends and another one begins, in stanzas that we have not created ourselves. Poetry for December – Words Under the Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, (Palestinian American) 1994

From Nye’s poem, “The Shopper”

“We must bless ourselves with peaches.
Pray to the eggplant, silent among her sisters,
that the seeds will not be bitter on the tongue.
Confess our fears to the flesh of the tomato:
we too go forward only halfway ripened
dreaming of the deeper red.”

For more info or the link to the Monday Dec. 29th online discussion (6-7 pm on Zoom) contact UUSS at info at uuschenectady dot org