Join us online on Monday, Dec. 29th from 6 – 7 for a discussion of this month’s book by a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or other Person of Color) author.

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. Our choice for this 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.

If you have suggestions for novels, historical fiction, memoirs, or books of poetry by BIPOC authors, please send them along to info at uuschenectady dot org. You may write here for the Zoom info too.