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This summer, One Book One Bronx celebrates Haiti’s rich history, resilience, and vibrant culture through literature and community conversations. As the first independent Black republic, Haiti’s legacy is one of strength, creativity, and perseverance. Through free book discussions, we will honor the voices and experiences that have shaped the nation, blending contemporary narratives with personal accounts from our community. These conversations will be further enriched by Mosaic, our print literary journal, and the annual Mosaic Literary Conference, where authors, educators, and community voices come together to share insights, foster connections, and uplift the power of storytelling. Click here for regular updates.

  • tasha dougé is a Bronx-bred & based, Haitian-infused conceptual visual and performance artist, activist, and cultural vigilante. Her practice leans on experimentation with different mediums that excavate and examine the nuances of the human experience. She has been featured in Sugarcane Magazine, Essence, and The New York Times. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY; The Shed, New York, NY; and RISD Museum, Providence, RI.

SCHEDULE

One Book One Bronx
(S)kin by Ibi Zoboi
Saturdays, 12-130p: 9/6, 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, & 10/4
Andrew Freedman Home, 1125 Grand Concourse, The Bronx

Tuesdays, 7-830p: 9/9. 9/16, 9/23, & 9/30
Zoom

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 magic.

10/4: Ibi Zoboi joins the conversation.
Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times Bestselling author of books for children and teens, including American Street, a National Book Award Finalist, Pride, a modern remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and the Walter Award and LA Times Book Prize-winning Punching the Air, co-written with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. Ibi is a two-time Coretta Scott King Author Award honoree for The People Remember, her debut picture book, and Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler. She is the winner of the 2024 CSK Author Award for Nigeria Jones. She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America and has written Okoye to the People, a Black Panther novel for Marvel. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, Ibi lives in New Jersey.

PAST

One Book One Bronx
Sweet Undoings by Yanick Lahens (Author), Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)

Saturdays, 12-130p: 8/2, 8/9, 8/16, & 8/23
James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center
100 W Mosholu Parkway S., The Bronx
• Pages assigned after each session
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Tuesdays, 7-830p: 8/5, 8/12, 8/29, & 8/26
Zoom
8/5: Pgs 1-49
8/12: Pgs 50-93
8/19: Pgs 93-131
8/26: Pgs 132-end
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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.

  • Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. After attending school and university in France, she returned to Haiti., where she taught literature at the university in Port-au-Prince and worked for the Ministry of Culture. Her first novel was published in 2000, and she won the prestigious Prix Femina for Moonbath in 2014. 


  • Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French & Africana Studies and Faculty Director of the Barnard Digital Humanities Center. Having received a B.A. in French History and Literature and Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University, Professor Glover joined the faculty in 2002. Her teaching and research interests include francophone literature, particularly that of Haiti and the French Antilles; colonialism and postcolonialism; and sub-Saharan francophone African cinema. She advises students in French, Africana Studies, Comparative Literature, and Human Rights. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP 2020) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP 2010). She has published articles in The French Review, Small Axe, Research in African Literatures, The Journal of Postcolonial Writings, and The Journal of Haitian Studies, among others, and has co-edited several works, including New Narratives of Haiti for Transition magazine (2013), Translating the Caribbean for Small Axe (2015), Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine for Yale French Studies (2016); The Haiti Exception (2016), and The Haiti Reader (2020). Professor Glover has translated several works of fiction and non-fiction from French to English, notably Frankétienne’s Ready to Burst (2014), Marie Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano (2016), René Depestre’s Hadriana in All My Dreams (2017), and Françoise Vergès’s The Wombs of Women: Capitalism, Racialization, Feminism (2019). She is an awardee of the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the New York Public Library Cullman Center. She is the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, the founding co-organizer of "The Caribbean Digital," and the founding co-director of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography. In 2018-2019 she was a resident Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, France where she began work on her new book project, “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life” and she is also working on a book of essays, "'Blackness' in French."

 

PAGES II POSES
Connect Literature to Wellness & Yoga
Presented by tasha & Jazy

Saturday, 8/30, 10am-12pm
Andrew Freedman Home, 1125 Grand Concourse, The Bronx

We’re thrilled to bring back Pages II Poses as we continue celebrating Haitian literature—this time featuring Alaso, a Haitian Feminist anthology.

Pages II Poses is not your typical book club or yoga class. It’s a unique embodied reading experience where the words on the page guide our movement, reflection, and connection. Together, we’ll explore passages from Alaso—diving into themes of non/borders, family, and desire—while noticing how the text resonates in our bodies. From there, we’ll pause for journaling and open space to share what emerges.

Come ready to read, move, reflect, and discover in community.

Free! All Yoga Levels Welcome
Bring a yoga mat (or a chair will be provided)

 

One Book One Bronx
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
Zoom

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 in Conversation with Cleyvis Natera
Saturday, 7/19/2025, 2-4pm
Mott Haven Library/NYPL, 321 East 140th St.

One Book One Bronx
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Saturdays, 12-1:30p, 5/17, 5/24, 5/31, 6/7, & 6/14
6/14: Edwidge Danticat joined the conversation

Tuesdays, 7-8:30p, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, & 6/10
On Zoom. 

The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.

 

Azuei
Film Screening & Panel
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 2-5pm
The Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse
Presented by Dominicans Love Haitians Movement

Join us for a screening of Azuei and a dynamic panel featuring directors  Jean Jean and Rachele Magloire, facilitated by MelimeL.

MelimeL, facilitator

Jean Jean, panelist

Rachele Magloire, panelist

Azuei is not a project, but a multidisciplinary movement whose mission is to build bridges between the two republics of the island by bringing artists together to create. The Kiskey’ART tour was the first opportunity to share these creations in a short period of time, on both sides of the border. For almost a month, musicians, painters, and filmmakers crossed the border several times to meet with communities. The tour was an opportunity to introduce the public to the music on the Azuei collective’s first album, ArtYBonito.

 

Directed and edited by: Jean Jean and Rachele Magloire, 2023
Production: Azuei et Fokal and the European Union
Running time: 80 minutes

 

  • Jean Jean is a graduate of EICTV’s documentary department. With his production company Soup Joumou Films he made his first feature documentary Si Bondye vle, Yuli, which participated in several festivals, winning 5 awards for best documentary, including the human rights award given by Amnesty International in Trinidad & Tobago. Jean is also an actor and his films have premiered at Cannes, Berlinale, TIFF, Sundance, among other major festivals. In 2017, Jean won the choral award for Best Actor at the New Latin American Film Festival, the Mayahuel for Best Actor in Guadalajara and the ACE award in New York for his leading role in the film Carpinteros by José María Cabral. Jean is a founding member of the Azuei Movement, as well as ACÚ, the Association of Documentary Filmmakers of the Dominican Republic. Jean is Haiti’s representative at EICTV.

  • Rachèle Magloire is a Haitian filmmaker, journalist, and cultural activist whose work explores migration, identity, and justice across the Caribbean. Born in Port-au-Prince and raised in Montreal, she began her career as a journalist documenting Haiti’s democratic transition and later worked for Radio Okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a UN-supported media initiative promoting freedom of expression. She co-founded Productions Fanal, an audiovisual company in Haiti focused on producing documentaries on education, culture, and human rights.

    Magloire is co-founder of the Azueï Movement, a binational collective of Haitian and Dominican artists dedicated to fostering peace and dialogue across the island of Quisqueya/Kiskeya. Her 2012 film Deported, co-directed with Chantal Regnault, won Best Documentary at the Vues d’Afrique International Film Festival and brought global attention to the plight of Haitians expelled from the U.S. and Canada.

    Most recently, she co-produced and directed 1964: Simityè Kamoken (2024), a powerful historical documentary now screening internationally. Her work continues to inspire cross-cultural dialogue and challenge discriminatory narratives through art.

  • MelimeL is a creative artist and mompreneur, forging her own path as a Lead Graphic Designer of MelimeL Digital Art Design. Her zine, “POWER Zine: Volume I: art inspires,” and the upcoming "POWER Zine: Volume II: power plays" are an ode to her transformative POWER artwork from 2008, that solidifies her status as a visionary and empowerment agent. Aside from designing and writing, MelimeL enjoys travel, photography, performing, and is an aspiring DJ. She is an NYU alum and community leader who hosted an Annual Women Empowerment Event for ten years (2013-2022) and is currently developing a documentary film about it. MelimeL runs The sisSTAR Loop, a platform for women-owned business and professionals, and The Empowerment Network, a digital magazine with its 13th issue currently in production. Through her creative works, MelimeL is committed to empowering others to excel in their personal and professional lives.


  • Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is utilizing performance and storytelling to reflect and reconcile with over 500 years of Eurocentrism. It is exhuming mythological injustices designed and instituted by colonialism, dictators and plutocrats to instill fear, prejudices and oppression. Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is using art as a vehicle for unravelling biases and bigotry. Its mission is to heal wounds instituted by racial stigmas. We are creating space to manifest the possibility of and the ability to witness violent acts without deflection, amnesia, or suppression and voicing those acts so they no longer hold power or designate who we are as human beings.

Mosaic Literary Conference: Sak Pasé Haiti
Saturday, November 22, 2025, 12-6p
Andrew Freedman Home, 1125 Grand Concourse, The Bronx

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 #43

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 African diaspora and themes featured during the Mosaic Literary Conference. The result is a collection of literature that is both captivating and thought-provoking.

About the Curator

tasha dougé is a Bronx-bred & based, Haitian-infused conceptual visual and performance artist, activist, and cultural vigilante. Her practice leans on experimentation with different mediums that excavate and examine the nuances of the human experience. She has been featured in Sugarcane Magazine, Essence, and The New York Times. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY; The Shed, New York, NY; and RISD Museum, Providence, RI.