In this energizing event, writer and vocalist Alexa Patrick will perform poems from her debut collection Remedies for Disappearing (Haymarket Books 2023), and share the complicated stories around Black girlhood that inspired them. If you have wild aunties, if you have or haven't gone to a prom, if you have ever been 'the only" in a place where you so desperately wanted to be seen--this event is for you. Q+A and book signing to follow. 

ABOUT REMEDIES FOR DISAPPEARING

A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women.

In this beautiful debut from an exciting new poet, Alexa Patrick’s Remedies for Disappearing memorializes Blackness in its quiet and unexpected forms, bringing the peripheral into focus. These poems muddy Black life and death, observe lineage and love stories, and question what “disappearing” teaches about Blackness and bodies.

All are also warmly invited to attend Germantown Athenaeum’s third annual virtual Open Mic on Thursday, February 29, 12:30-1:30, via Zoom