Poetry Book Club: Freeland

Date and Time

• Thursday, Apr 2, 2026  5:30pm - 7pm

Location

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Details

Join us for Poetry Book Club! This month we will discuss Freeland by Leigh Sugar.

Copies of this title will be available to pick-up at the Downtown Library's Information Desk beginning on February 6th.

We will meet in the Conference Room from 5:30-7:00PM on Thursday, April 2nd. The first hour will be dedicated to discussion with the last 30 minutes reserved for writing exercises (optional).

About this Book:

In her debut collection FREELAND, poet and editor Leigh Sugar obsessively searches form and language to communicate what happens in the U.S. mass incarceration system. 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.

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