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# A Pop-up Reading of Black Poetry at the Brooklyn Museum
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-pop-up-reading-of-black-poetry-at-the-brooklyn-museum/
- Published: 2018-11-26T20:47:33.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:09:21.000Z
- Description: This weekend, the Brooklyn Museum will host a Pop-up Poetry event featuring readings by three Cave Canem fellows.
- Author: Deena ElGenaidi
- Tags: Art, Brooklyn Museum, Events, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![Hafizah Geter (image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/11/geter-1460.jpg)

Hafizah Geter (image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)

This Saturday the [Brooklyn Museum](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/pop%5Fup%5Fpoetry%5Ffsat%5Fdecember%5F2018?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [Cave Canem Foundation](http://cavecanempoets.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will host a Pop-up Poetry event as part of the Museum’s First Saturday lineup of events. Poets and Cave Canem Fellows [Hafizah Geter](https://www.hafizahgeter.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [Cynthia Manick](http://www.cynthiamanick.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), and [Nicholas Nichols](https://www.nicholasnichols.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will be reading.

![Cynthia Manick (image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/11/manick-1460.jpg)

Cynthia Manick (image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)

Cave Canem Foundation works to promote “[the artistic and professional growth of Black poets](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/pop%5Fup%5Fpoetry%5Ffsat%5Fdecember%5F2018?ref=hyperallergic.com).” Geter is a Brooklyn-based poet born in Zaria, Nigeria. She is also a Cave Canem Fellow and has poems published in or forthcoming in *The New Yorker*, *Tin House*, *Narrative Magazine*, *Gulf Coast*, *Boston Review*, *Los Angeles Review of Books*, and *West Branch*, among other publications. She is currently working on a full length poetry collection and a nonfiction collection, according to her website.

Manick is another Brooklyn-based poet and the author of *Blue Hallelujahs* (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, *Bone Bouquet, Callaloo, Kweli Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Muzzle Magazine, The Wall Street Journal,* and other publications*.*

![Nicholas Nichols (image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/11/nichols-1460.jpg)

Nicholas Nichols (image courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)

Nichols is a writer and photographer. He has been published in *The Blueshift Journal, Winter Tangerine, and Wildness Magazine*. This is sure to be a great reading that you won’t want to miss. Entry for this and other First Saturday events is free.

**When:** Saturday, December 1, 7:30–9:00 pm  
**Where:** The Brooklyn Museum, Luce Center for American Art, 5th Floor (200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Park, Brooklyn)