Featured Author: Leigh Sugar
With potluck and open-mic
Saturday, October 11, 7-9 pm
Private home in Harlem (124th Street)
RSVP Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org for directions

Visiting from Michigan, Leigh Sugar reads from her new poetry collection FREELAND, a finalist for both the Alice James Award and the Jake Adam York Prize. Through the lens of a young woman in a relationship with an incarcerated writer, FREELAND follows this impossible love story while drawing compelling and critical connections between her personal and familial history, the Jewish diaspora, the racial imaginary of Whiteness, and the philosophical and literal evolution of the prison machine.

Leigh Sugar (she/her) is a writer, editor, educator, dancer, and, most importantly, learner. She created and edited That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral settings (New Village Press, 2023). She has taught at various venues, including NYU, Poetry Foundation, The Institute for Justice and Opportunity, Hugo House, and several prisons in Michigan, and her poetry and critical writing appeared in Poetry magazine, jubilat, and Split This Rock, among others. An associate producer for Rachel Zucker's poetry podcast Commonplace: Conversations With Poets (and Other People), Leigh holds an MFA in poetry from NYU, where she served as a Veteran Writers Fellow, and a Master of Public Administration specializing in Criminal Justice Policy from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.