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Banned Books Week Kick Off
Sunday, October 4, 2026
12 - 5 PM
561 NW 32 ST, Miami, 33127
Come to Bookleggers on Sunday, October 4th, to kick off Banned Books Week.
Stop by for free books and more:
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Blind Date with a Banned Book
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Button Making
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12:30 - 2:30 pm - Erasure Poetry Workshop with Jasmine Respess
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2:30 & 4:30 pm - Merch Giveaways
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3:00 - 5:00 pm - Happy Hour
Bookleggers is located inside the Bakehouse Art Complex.
Enter through the gate next to the yellow wall on NW 32 St.
Poetry Workshop with Jasmine Respess
Banned Book Blackout:
Erasure Against Censor
Banning books attempts to erase them, but Bookleggers highlights Florida’s banned books list through blackout poems.
Erasure poetry, or blackout poetry, is a poetic form in which a poet erases, crosses out, removes, cuts out, covers, retypes, or blacks out words from preexisting writing to create something new.
Join Jasmine Respess (Editor-in-Chief of Islandia Journal and Founder of Penumbra Press) in “erasing” a collection of this school year’s most banned books to find new meaning for our communities, ourselves, and each other.
Some of 2026’s most banned books include:
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Sold by Patricia McCormick
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Jasmine will also present erasure poems from Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas, Tracy K. Smith’s Declaration, M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, and Radi Os by Ronald Johnson.
Instead of banning books, let’s blackout our beloved books together.