Join the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) for a special free webinar featuring Jacqueline Woodson in conversation with Jill Egan, leader of DPLA’s Curation Corps and curator of the Banned Book Club.

Via Webinar.

The Reading Room

226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11221

Join Morgan Jerkins and Jacqueline Woodson in conversation at The Free Black Women’s Library. We'll be celebrating the launch of Jerkins’s beautifully written new novel, ‘Zeal’. Booksigning to follow.

MAY 2- 4th 2025

A weekend with my people in Wisconsin!

315 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Renée Watson and I will be discussing all kinds of stuff about writing including blending poetry and prose, writing fiction, centering stories of Black Women and a lot more as we celebrate paperback publication of skin & bones. Come thru with questions!

Talking all things BROWN GIRL DREAMING with the students of New Utrecht High School.

Event closed to the Public.

Discussing BEFORE THE EVER AFTER with the students of M.S. 936

Event closed to the Public.

Discussing EACH KINDNESS with students from the Castle Bridge School!

Event closed to the public.

61 West 62nd Street New York, NY 10023

Hanging with Mahogany L. Brown at the 8th Annual Black Girl Magic Ball.

1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.

So proud to be honored by the New York Women's Foundation. Come join me, Fran Drescher and thousands of guests to celebrate, uplift, and create a better future for all women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

So excited to be heading to the state of my birth, getting an Honorary Degree and giving Kenyon College's 2025 Commencement Address!

Talking RED AT THE BONE. Can't believe this book is six years old now!

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Join award-winning authors, Kaija Langley, Amina Luqman-Dawson, Dr. Jasmine Taylor and myself for a timely conversation about young people's literature and our communities.

via Webinar

This event is closed to the Public.

15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

So it's my last year as New York State Author. (Some people didn't even know I held this role.) Patricia Spears Jones is New York State Poet. Come hear us talk about what these roles have meant to us and so much more.

Join Kwame Alexander, Renée Watson, Major Jackson, Nikki Finney, Virginia Fowler, myself and musical guest, Toshi Reagon as we honor the legacy of Nikki Giovanni with one of the highest honors in poetry.