Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
by Edwidge Danticat
Saturdays 12-130p: 5/17, 5/24, 5/31, 6/7, & 6/14
Bronx River Community Garden, 180th St. & Devoe Ave.

Tuesdays 7-830p: 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, & 6/10
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In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Danticat writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brooklyn Public Library, a woman mutilated in a machete attack who became a public witness against torture, and the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent.

Village Weavers by Myriam J. A. Chancy
Saturdays 12-130p: 6/28, 7/5, 7/12, 7/19, & 7/26
Bronx River Community Garden, 180th St. & Devoe Ave.

Tuesdays 7-830p: 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, & 7/22
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Myriam J. A. Chancy in conversation
Saturday, 7/19/2025, Time and location TBD

In 1940s’ Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship—until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. After François Duvalier’s rule turns deadly in the 1950s, Sisi moves to Paris, while Gertie marries into a wealthy Dominican family. Across decades and continents, through personal success and failures, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship.

Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author most recently of the novel Village Weavers (Tin House), a Time Best Book of April 2024. Her work has received multiple awards including an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Guyana Prize in Literature, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Gold Prize, and the Isis Duarte Book Prize. She is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in California.

Sweet Undoings
by Yanick Lahens (Author), Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)
Saturdays, 12-130p: 8/2, 8/9, 8/16, 8/23, & 8/30
James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center, 100 W Mosholu Parkway S., The Bronx

Tuesdays, 7-830p: 8/5, 8/12, 8/29, & 8/26
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Drawing its power from the bowels of the city, Sweet Undoings moves with a rapid, electric syncopation, gradually and tenderly revealing the richness of the lives within. This is a slow-burning and empathic work in which Lahens occasionally shifts the book from third person to first for a passage or two, creating a sense of these disparate lives overlapping unexpectedly. Sweet Undoings is a book in which violence is never far away, but there’s also room for hard-earned epiphanies.

(S)kin by Ibi Zoboi
Saturdays, 12-130p: 9/6, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, & 10/4
James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center, 100 W Mosholu Parkway S., The Bronx

Tuesdays, 7-830p: 9/9. 9/16, 9/23, & 9/30
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Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. Seventeen-year-old Genevieve is the daughter of a college professor and a newly minted older half sister of twins. The girls soon discover that the very skin keeping their flames locked beneath the surface may be more explosive to the relationships around them than any ancient magic.

Mosaic Literary Conference: Sak Pasé Haiti
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Location tbd

The Mosaic Literary Conference fosters a collaborative space for individuals interested in literature, education, and the arts. MLC plays a crucial role in promoting creative thinking and knowledge sharing within the community. By inviting educators, community and arts organizations, as well as the general public, the conference facilitates a diverse and inclusive exchange of ideas.

Mosaic #45
November 2025
Mosaic is a literary print and virtual magazine that showcases the work of writers of African and Latinx descent. Each issue is curated by a respected guest editor, who selects a variety of works that represent the diversity of the African diaspora and themes featured during the Mosaic Literary Conference. The result is a collection of literature that is both captivating and thought-provoking.