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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.

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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