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Because You’re Never Too Old For A Bedtime Story

Storytime for Grown-Ups is a new way that Bookleggers brings books directly to YOU, through a different artist or author each week reading one of their favorite stories, poems, or essays. LIVE Every Thursday at 10PM on Instagram.

Click below to see each episode!

SEASON 9

SEASON 8

• SEASON 9 RECAP • ⠀

1. Season 9 kicks off with artist 𝙅𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙮 (@jenlynnclay, she/her) as she reads “The Eyes Have It” by Philip K. Dick 🛸

2. Professor and writer Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels (@thesacredartscape, @africanaartscholars, she/her) joins the show to read Roxane Gay’s "In the Manner of Water or Light” and the poem "Basquiat's Lwas" by Gina Athena Ulysse!

3. Visual artist and art educator Liene Bosquê (@lienebosque, she/her) joins the show to read from “Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 (2020)” edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre.

4. Join us as we welcome Bhakti Baxter (@bhaktimar, he/him) to the show.

5. Visual artist Dara Friedman (she/her) joins the show for the last episode of this season.

#storytime #bookleggersstorytime #miami

EP. 54 • Jen Clay! 📚

EP. 55 • Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels! 📚

EP. 55 • Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels! 📚

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EP. 56 • Liene Bosquê 📚

EP. 57 • Bhakti Baxter 📚

EP. 57 • Bhakti Baxter 📚

EP. 58 • Dara Friedman 📚

EP. 58 • Dara Friedman 📚

SEASON 7
Curated by Third Horizon

Storytime for Grown-Ups will return soon. In the meantime, revisit episodes from our amazing eighth season curated by @lhccmiami very own @marievickles

• SEASON 8 RECAP • ⠀

1. Documentary photographer, filmmaker, lecturer, and curator 𝙑𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙩 (@vanessa.charlot, she/her) joins the show to read from “Beloved” by Toni Morrison 🔥🔥🔥

2. Teacher and founder of the Haitian folkloric dance group NSL Danse Ensemble, 𝙉𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝙎𝙩. 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙧 (@nsldansensemble, she/her) joins the show to read from “A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution” by Jeremy D. Popkin 📚📚📚

3. Artist and curator Edouard Duval-Carrié (@edouardduvalcarrie, he/him) joins the show to read from “Tropics of Haiti” by Marlene L. Daut 📚📚📚

4. Season 8 curator 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚𝙨 (@marievickles, she/her) joins the show to read "Something in the Water...Reflections of a People's Journey” by Nikol Payen!

5. Social justice doula, content creator, ant-racist educator, social worker, and your favorite black feminist thinker 𝙇𝙪𝙩𝙯𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙜𝙪 (@lutzesegu, she/her) joins the show to read a selection from “Sula” by Toni Morrison!

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EP. 49 • Vanessa Charlot! 📚✨

EP. 50 • Nancy St. Leger! 📚✨

EP. 50 • Nancy St. Leger! 📚✨

EP. 51 • Edouard Duval-Carrié! 📚✨

EP. 51 • Edouard Duval-Carrié! 📚✨

EP. 52 • Marie Vickles! 📚✨

EP. 52 • Marie Vickles! 📚✨

EP. 53 • Lutze Segu! 📚✨

EP. 53 • Lutze Segu! 📚✨

SEASON 6

Curated by O, Miami Poetry Festival

Third Horizon Film Festival opens today! Revisit episodes from our seventh season, featuring a lineup of international authors, artists, filmmakers, and poets from the Caribbean, its Diaspora, and beyond, curated by @thrdhrzn! And head to thirdhorizonfilmfestival.com to check out their lineup of films, music, and art — presented virtually and in person — through July 1.

Storytime will return soon. 📚
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• SEASON 7 RECAP • ⠀
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1. Third Horizon takes over Storytime! Kicking off the season, actor, writer, and professor of English at Coppin State University, 𝘿𝙧. 𝙆𝙤𝙠𝙤 𝙕𝙖𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙪-𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙚 (@comptonauthor, she/her) joins the show to read “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston!

2. Trinidad-born writer, DJ and jouvayist 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙝 𝙎𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 (@tillahji, she/her) joins the show with “Is Just a Movie” by Earl Lovelace!
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3. London-based St. Lucian photographer, artist, filmmaker, and historian 𝙁𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙣 AKA 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙣 (@knowyourcaribbean, she/her) joins the show to read from “The Mermaid of Black Conch” by Monique Roffey!
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4. International Bajan icon & visual artist 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙚 (@sheenaroseinc, she/her) joins the show to read from “Miguel Street” by V.S. Naipaul!
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5. Hailing from Port-au-Prince and coming to us live from New York City, lens-based artist 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣 (@stevenbaboun, he/they) joins the show to read “A Wall of Fire Rising“ from Edwige Danticat’s “Krik? Krak!”

6. Trinidadian poet & writer 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙤 (@pleasureblog, he/him) joins the show to read from Shirley Jackson’s “Louisa, Please Come Home”!
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EP. 43 • Dr. Koko Zauditu-Selassie! 📚✨

EP. 43 • Dr. Koko Zauditu-Selassie! 📚✨

EP. 44 • Attillah Springer! 📚✨

EP. 44 • Attillah Springer! 📚✨

EP. 45 • Know Your Caribbean! 📚✨

EP. 45 • Know Your Caribbean! 📚✨

EP. 46 • Sheena Rose! 📚✨

EP. 46 • Sheena Rose! 📚✨

EP. 47 • Steven Baboun! 📚✨

EP. 47 • Steven Baboun! 📚✨

EP. 48 • Andre Bagoo! 📚✨

EP. 48 • Andre Bagoo! 📚✨

Storytime Season 6:
Curated by O, Miami Poetry Festival

1. Poet extraordinaire 𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙈𝙘𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝 (@bashois2, he/him) joins the show to read a selection of his favorite road poems.⠀⠀
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2. Multidisciplinary artist human 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙬𝙚 𝙊𝙠𝙤𝙣𝙖 (@chinweokona, she/her) joins the show to read Faith Ringgold’s Church Picnic Story Quilt!⠀
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3. Haitian poet, essayist, and translator 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙮 𝙏𝙤𝙣-𝘼𝙞𝙢𝙚 (@sonyquasimodo, he/him) joins the show to read his translation of Maurice Sixto’s “Gwo Moso”.⠀⠀
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4. American Book Award winner 𝙎𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙖 𝙋𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙡 (@sasharpimentel on twitter, she/her) joins the show to read a selection of poems — and perform LIVE FRUIT NINJA!
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5. Poet, essayist, and literary critic 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙆𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙧-𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙨 (@mkdordiggsy, he/him) joins the show with “Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds” by John Murillo
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Presented in collaboration with and curated by O, Miami Poetry Festival (@omiamifestival)⠀⠀

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EP. 38 • Campbell McGrath! 📚✨

EP. 38 • Campbell McGrath! 📚✨

EP. 39 • Chinwe Okona! 📚✨

EP. 39 • Chinwe Okona! 📚✨

EP. 40 • Sony Ton-Aime! 📚✨

EP. 40 • Sony Ton-Aime! 📚✨

EP. 41 • Sasha Pimentel! 📚✨

EP. 41 • Sasha Pimentel! 📚✨

EP. 42 • Michael Kleber-Diggs! 📚✨

EP. 42 • Michael Kleber-Diggs! 📚✨

SEASON 5

Our fifth season of Storytime for Grown-Ups takes you to the final fronteir! Tune in to see your favorite artists and authors bring you their favorite out-of-this-world stories, poems, and essays. Always on IG Live, available now on IGTV.

EP. 31 • Emily Mars! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 31 • Emily Mars! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 32 • Nerissa Street! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 32 • Nerissa Street! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 33 • VantaBlack! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 33 • VantaBlack! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 34 • Suanay Hernández! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 34 • Suanay Hernández! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 35 • Agatha Christie Orjales! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 35 • Agatha Christie Orjales! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 36 • Niki Franco! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 36 • Niki Franco! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 37 • Patty Suau! 🚀📚🪐

EP. 37 • Patty Suau! 🚀📚🪐

SEASON 4

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EP. 25 • Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 25 • Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 26 • Saleem Reshamwala! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 26 • Saleem Reshamwala! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 27 • Octavia Yearwood! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 27 • Octavia Yearwood! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 28 • Alec Castillo! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 28 • Alec Castillo! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 29 • Tayina Deravile! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 29 • Tayina Deravile! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 30 • Randy Garcia! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 30 • Randy Garcia! 🦉✨🦄

SEASON 3

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EP. 17 • Faren Humes! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 17 • Faren Humes! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 18 • Jonathan David Kane! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 18 • Jonathan David Kane! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 19 • Nadege Green! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 19 • Nadege Green! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 20 • Oscar Rieveling! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 20 • Oscar Rieveling! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 21 • Jaswinder Bolina! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 21 • Jaswinder Bolina! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 22 • Dale Zine! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 22 • Dale Zine! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 23 • Queef Latina! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 23 • Queef Latina! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 24 • Arsimmer McCoy! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 24 • Arsimmer McCoy! 🦉✨🦄

SEASON 2

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EP. 9 • Kevin Arrow! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 9 • Kevin Arrow! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 10 • Monica Peña! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 10 • Monica Peña! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 11 • Ariel Francisco! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 11 • Ariel Francisco! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 12 • Maria Theresa Barbist! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 12 • Maria Theresa Barbist! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 13 • misael soto! 🦉✨🦄

EP. 13 • misael soto! 🦉✨🦄