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SUMMARY:WBB Graphic Novel Book Club: Raging Clouds by Yudori
DESCRIPTION:Join us for September’s Graphic Novel Book Club pick: Raging Clouds by Yudori \nAmélie is a brilliant woman trapped in the restricting social mores of high Dutch society in the mid-16th century. Her marriage to Hans\, a swashbuckling merchant\, is a terrible match. While he charms the townsfolk\, at home he is her intellectual inferior and treats her with cruelty and sexual violence. Expected to be a devoted housewife\, Amélie can only be her true\, free-spirited self when Hans travels away on business — when she can explore the town alone\, lose herself in literature\, and study winged animals to learn about the mechanics of flight. She looks to the skies and dreams of flying far away. Her life changes when Hans returns from his journey with Sahara\, a slave mistress from a distant land. The two women are drawn to each other — each recognizing their confinement in a world dominated by men — and work together to seek their freedom. \nTold as a fiercely feminist story and spectacularly illustrated\, Raging Clouds is the dazzling graphic novel debut of Korean comic book artist Yudori. In her lush manga style\, Yudori imagines the period in rich detail with careful attention to settings and costumes\, while evoking the cultural and societal standards of the time. She creates complex women characters who grapple with indignity over their social position\, engage in lustful fantasies\, and ultimately relish in seizing agency in their lives. Raging Clouds is a powerful story about the role of women in society\, the reality of existing within a non-consensual relationship\, and the struggle to push back against the boundaries these women have been boxed into.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/wbb-graphic-novel-book-club-raging-clouds-by-yudori/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book
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SUMMARY:Queens Reading Series: Poetry Edition
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the fourth Queens Reading Series Event — ~❀poetry❀~ edition with some brilliant poets and writers. \n​The readers are: \n​Hannah Lee Nahar is a writer and teaching artist. Their work is published in Best New Poets\, No\, Dear\, West Branch\, Salt Hill\, Mississippi Review\, and elsewhere. They live in Brooklyn. \n​Naomi Shuyama-Gómez is a writer based in the greater NYC area\, on ancestral and unceded Munsee Lenape land. Her fiction and poetry appear in EcoTheo Review\, Meniscus Literary Journal\, The Boiler\, Joyland\, Denver Quarterly\, The Margins\, Gulf Coast Journal\, The Cincinnati Review\, The Journal\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Florida Review\, and the minnesota review among others. \n​c. melín lara (a.k.a Car Lara) is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental writer of Mexican and Honduran heritage\, born and living in Queens\, NYC on Lenapehoking land. Their multilingual work explores transculturality and mythic-domestic entanglements through translation play\, formal experiments with typographical symbols and asemic transliterations. \n​Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu\, Hawaiʻi. His debut poetry collection\, The Ninth Island\, is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press on February 9\, 2027. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, either/or magazine\, Voicemail Poems and other publications. Andrew lives in Queens and is a New York City public school teacher. \n​Sreshtha Sen is a poet from Delhi. They studied Literatures in English from Delhi University\, completed their MFA at Sarah Lawrence College\, and their PhD at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. Their work can be found published or forthcoming in Apogee\, bitch media\, Gulf Coast\, Hyperallergic\, Hyphen Magazine\, Kenyon Review\, The Margins\, Mcsweeney’s\, Rumpus and elsewhere. They live in Jackson Heights. \n​Holly Zhou is a poet and mixed-media artist from the California desert\, the unceded territory of the Cahuilla and Mojave peoples. Holly’s poetry and prose has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Seventh Wave & elsewhere. When not writing\, they can be found exploring rocks by the ocean or in the mountains.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/queens-reading-series-poetry-edition/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T183000
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SUMMARY:Koshari\, Kitchari\, Arroz con Gandules: Food of the Masses
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Tasting and Teach-In about Egyptian\, Indian\, and Puerto Rican dishes featuring Rice and Lentils!\n\n\nRice and Lentils together form the basis of nutritious\, delicious\, and cheap meals that have fed our peoples for generations. At this event\, we will serve small portions of three different dishes that feature Rice and Lentils: Koshari (Egyptian)\, Kitchari (Indian)\, and Arroz con Gandules (Puerto Rican). \nBut there’s more! Come for the tasting\, and stay for a teach-in on how these foods of the masses tell our personal and cultural stories. It will range from family anecdotes to the history of how Boricuas\, Indians\, and Egyptians have fought to provide self-sustenance and forge a cultural identity amidst colonialism. \nThroughout the event\, attendees will have space to be in community with each other and reflect on the foods that connect them to their own identities.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/koshari-kitchari-arroz-con-gandules-food-of-the-masses/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food,In Person
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SUMMARY:From Queens with Love: Writers on the Borough that Inspired Them
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the World’s Borough Bookshop’s third anniversary\, these native Queens writers will share how growing up here shaped their lives\, writing\, and art. \nAlvin Eng\, author of Our Laundry\, Our Town \nHeather Eng\, author of Double Happiness \nSylvia Chen\, author of Tricky Chopsticks and Sparkles for Sunny \nHeather Eng is a third-generation Chinese American writer who grew up in Queens\, New York. She graduated from Boston University with a journalism degree\, and worked as a newspaper writer\, web editor\, and senior marketing leader in the tech industry. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter. DOUBLE HAPPINESS is her first novel. \nAlvin Eng is a native Queens author/playwright\, songwriter\, educator and performer who is thrilled to be part of a second event at WBB! As a New York Public Library Long-Term Fellow\, he began researching a companion book to his acclaimed memoir\, OUR LAUNDRY\, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond. His next book\, BOW’RY BUM: Searching for Grandfather\, Burroughs and Punk\, examines the profound impact of The Opium Wars and opium on the Chinese diaspora in NYC of his grandfather’s generation as well as on the 1970s “heroin chic” punk/counterculture of his own formative years­­. Plays and solo performance works have been seen Off-Broadway\, in Paris\, Hong Kong and Guangzhou\, China. Currently developing a solo acoustic punk raconteur performance piece\, “Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk).” \nSylvia Chen born and raised in Queens\, New York\, is the award-winning author of picture books Tricky Chopsticks and Sparkles for Sunny: A Lunar New Year Story. She loves crafting picture books that spark kids’ interest in STEAM and creative thinking.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/from-queens-with-love-writers-on-the-borough-that-inspired-them/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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SUMMARY:AAPI Market Celebration
DESCRIPTION:This is our AAPI MARKET/ CELEBRATION/PARTY! We’ll have food\, baked goods\, all types of fun art for all ages and few activist friends tabling the spread the word on causes that affect us all! \nOver 35+ AAPI Creatives. So come by and party and support your local artists! \nLocation: Outside the World’s Borough Bookshop\, 3406 73rd Street\, Jackson Heights\, NY \n 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/aapi-market-celebration/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Market
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SUMMARY:Our Laundry\, Our Town with Alvin Eng In Conversation with Radha Vatsal
DESCRIPTION:Join Alvin Eng discussing his book Our Laundry\, Our Town My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond. Leading the conversation will be author and essayist\, Radha Vatsal. \nWith humor and grace\, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. \nOur Laundry\, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing\, Queens\, in the 1970s. Back then\, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind the counter of his parents’ laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture\, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them––from the faux martial arts of TV’s Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene. \nIn the 1970s\, NYC\, like most of the world\, was in the throes of regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural changes resulting from the counterculture and civil rights movements. And by the 1980s\, Flushing had become NYC’s second Chinatown. But Eng remained one of the neighborhood’s few Chinese citizens who did not speak fluent Chinese. Finding his way in the downtown theater and performance world of Manhattan\, he discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s foundational Americana drama\, Our Town. This discovery became the unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage to Hong Kong and Guangzhou\, China—his ancestral home in southern China—that led to writing and performing his successful autobiographical monologue\, The Last Emperor of Flushing. Learning to tell his own story on stages around the world was what proudly made him whole. \nAs cities\, classrooms\, cultures\, and communities the world over continue to re-examine the parameters of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, Our Laundry\, Our Town will reverberate with a broad readership.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/our-laundry-our-town-with-alvin-eng-in-conversation-with-radha-vatsal/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250814T180000
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SUMMARY:Making It Here: How to enter and navigate the ever-changing workplace
DESCRIPTION:Interactive talk on showing up\, speaking up and standing out at work. Learn to pitch\, ace interviews\, build your digital presence and more.\n\n\nWhether you’re starting your first internship or “corporate” job\, or just trying to figure out what “professional” means in today’s remote\, hybrid\, or distributed world — this convo is for you. Join us for an interactive\, real talk on how to show up\, speak up\, and stand out at work — and how to start paving your way up the ranks. We’ll break down how to craft a pitch\, what it really means to be “camera-ready” for interviews or public-facing moments\, and why your digital presence matters more than you think — even if your accounts are private. \nThe event will be hosted at The World’s Borough Bookshop\, the first Ecuadorian-owned BIPOC Bookstore in New York City based in Jackson Heights\, Queens. The World’s Borough Bookshop began as a passion project fueled by its owner Adrian Cepeda’s love for literature and a desire to see more representation of his culture and that of his neighbors in the books he read in school. Cepeda’s literary passion rose to global prominence through his Book Papi (Book poppa) TikTok. Since the launch of the shop’s digital presence\, it has evolved into a platform dedicated to amplifying BIPOC writers. The World’s Borough Bookshop aims to create a vibrant community hub that showcases BIPOC entrepreneurs\, artists\, and creatives\, providing them with the support and exposure they need to g
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/making-it-here-how-to-enter-and-navigate-the-ever-changing-workplace/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Professional Development
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: In Celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets
DESCRIPTION:Join World’s Borough Bookstore and AAWW for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry\, featuring Stine An!\n\n\nJoin the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and World’s Borough Bookstore for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry\, featuring Stine An! \nMila Jao Barry is a poet\, hand-cut printmaker\, and community arts organizer. Her poems have appeared in The Harvard Advocate\, Pigeon Pages\, and more. Raised by the ocean\, they are happiest when with loved ones at the shore or on the marsh. This spring\, Mila will graduate with a degree in English from Harvard College\, where she researches Emily Dickinson as well as contemporary poetics. \nStine An (안수연) is a Korean American poet\, literary translator\, and performer based in Queens whose interdisciplinary work explores diasporic poetics\, experimental translation\, K-pop\, and virtual performance. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard College and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project\, PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her works include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press\, 2025) and Comet and Star: A Story of Cosmic Friendship\, written by the musician and composer Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (Enchanted Lion Books\, 2024)\, and her debut poetry collection B-Dragon Suite is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2026. \nCOMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY\nAt AAWW\, the safety and comfort of our community is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind\, including but not limited to racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism\, ageism\, class or casteism\, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith\, or any action or assault against marginalized identities\, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome\, and will be asked to exit the space. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests\, including ADA accessible bathrooms\, chairs with added back support\, and beyond. This space is for YOU!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-celebration-of-wenzhou-street-sonnets/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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