This event will feature readings by leading women poets during the 61st Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York City, 2017. Karima Bennoune will give opening remarks, followed by poetry presentations of Abena Busia, Tsitsi Jaji, and Ladan Osman.

Poet activists Abena Busia, Robert Gibbons, Sara Goudarzi, Darrel Holnes, Elizabeth Lara and Evie Shockley will inspire the crowd at a parallel event of the 60th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women with poems on freedom, war, coups, conquests, family, love, memory and the craft of writing.