Illène Pevec, author of Growing a Life, reports happily that the garden she started at Casa Cuna for low-income children in Puebla, Mexico, continues despite all the hurdles of Covid and being closed more than a year. Preschoolers (right) are engaged harvesting seeds from herbs that they'll replant inside. lllène had worked with adolescents to build this big garden and also paint the lovely mural in the background.

She also reports that one of the youth she interviewed for her research on the value of gardening to troubled and disadvantaged teens is now in charge of two urban farm programs in Oakland, California. You can read interviews of young people whose lives are transformed by these programs in Illène's book.

In-store and live streamed on Zoom

Stuff is a brightly illustrated romp through art-writer LUCY LIPPARD's life that sparkles with the remarkable people she has known and loved. Framed by fascinating ancestors, her adventures run from childhood in four states to college with study abroad through her influential decades in New York City, where she organized dozens of exhibitions, authored hundreds of articles, and co-founded Heresies: A Feminist Journal of Art and Politics, the artist's-book center Printed Matter, and activist artists group PAD/D.

Paperback, 256 pages,12 b/w illustrations, 5.5 x 8.5 in.

JOYCE MILAMBILING is a writer and educator with a PhD in Applied Linguistics, teaching foreign language and ESL teachers in New York and overseas. A member of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and the New-York Historical Society, her articles have appeared in Academe, English Teaching Forum, and Theory into Practice

Skyscraper Settlement: The Many Lives of Christodora House

In the late 19th century, the concept of the settlement house spread from England and was adapted for U.S. cities. Scores of female students and graduates of the Seven Sisters Colleges were recruited to be “settlers” in New York City neighborhoods struggling with overcrowding and poverty. The classes, health clinics, and arts programs that settlement house workers provided helped narrow the gap between social classes and opened settlers’ eyes to the hardships faced by many adults and children in the nation’s cities.

Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall, Barnard College

3009 Broadway (at W 117 St. crosswalk) New York

Leigh Sugar presenting (virtual)

Leigh Sugar, editor of the forthcoming anthology That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions, will present at Rise Up, a national conference on "Transcending Boundaries in Prison and Post-Prison Education."

Presenter Ben Fink is the editor of the two-volume anthology Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater.

Edvige Giunta, Professor of English and coeditor of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, will be offering a free memoir workshop for Triangle Fire families and activists. It will be a prelude to the upcoming unveiling of the Triangle Fire Memorial on October 11, 2023.

David Cortright, author of A Peaceful Superpower and coeditor of Waging Peace in Vietnam, will be signing books at the Building Positive Peace Conference hosted by the Peace and Justice Studies Association at Iowa State University.

Cortright is Professor Emeritus of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.

Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, will give an

On the latest episode of Stroock Presents: GOAT Town, John Egnatios-Beene speaks with Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse, coeditors of Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City. Zoned Out! discusses how city land use and housing policies have played out in Williamsburg, Harlem, and Chinatown—neighborhoods facing massive displacement of people of color—and looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning, and develop housing in the public domain.

Frank, breathtaking writing by more than fifty

arts-in-corrections educators,

including the late Judith Tannenbaum

LEIGH SUGAR is a Michigan-born writer, teacher, and dancer, who has facilitated creative writing workshops through the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) and co-edited PCAP’s annual Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. She has also taught writing at the Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, the Poetry Foundation, the Justice Arts Coalition, and beyond. Her writing appears in Poetry Magazine, Split This Rock, jubilat, Honey Literary, and elsewhere.

Fearless personal essays from feminist poet

and activist, Margaret Randall

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Full-page line drawings by Barbara Byers

Paperback, 256 pages, 17 b/w illustrations, 5.83 x 8.27 inch

MARGARET RANDALL’s most keen essays to date will prompt readers to rethink topics of death, lies, memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, war, pandemics, violence, feminism, imagination, power, identity, and of course luck. This singular book is complemented by drawings of artist BARBARA BYERS.

Artist, activist, and author Robert Shetterly has painted over 260 portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth. These exquisite paintings of inspiring activists are exhibited in dozens of communities—see current shows below.

More exhibit info HERE

More exhibit info HERE

More exhibit info HERE

Selected portraits along with profiles, and essays are also in his beautiful color books: Portraits of Racial Justice and Portraits of Earth Justice.