In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Word Up Community Bookshop and EL Museo del Barrio invite you to celebrate critically acclaimed author Sandra Cisneros  at the New York launch of her new book of poems Woman Without Shame/Mujer sin vergüenza. This is Cisneros’s first collection of poems in 28 years, and her first to be published in English and Spanish. 

This intimate evening, held in El Museo’s El Teatro, will feature a reading by Sandra Cisneros, followed by a conversation with poet and activist Robin Morgan. An audience Q&A and book signing will follow.

Tickets are available at ElMuseo.org. Preorder the featured books at WordUpBooks.com.

$5 | General Admission with no book

$15.50 | Admission and signed soft cover book (Spanish)

$25 | Admission and signed hard cover book (English)

Group Sales. For group sales (organizations or schools), please contact Word Up directly at events@wordupbooks.com.

Face Coverings Required. In line with El Museo del Barrio’s safety guidelines, all attendees for this event must remain masked at all times. Masks will be available before entering the event.

Accessibility. El Museo’s main entrance is fully accessible via wheelchair via a ramp located on the right-side of the stairs on 5th Avenue. Accessible restrooms are available on the first floor near the café. Wheelchairs and stools are available upon request, free of charge.

GETTING THERE: El Museo del Barrio is located at 1230 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029 in Spanish Harlem. You can take the M1, M2, M3, and M4 to 5th Avenue/106th St., the 4 or 6 train to 103rd St., or the M106 to Madison Ave./East 102nd St.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.

It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With more than fifty never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth, a coming into power that is the gift of living a woman artist’s life. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, she is the recipient of numerous awards, including NEA Fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Texas Medal of the Arts, the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.  She has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two non-profits she founded: Macondo Writers, celebrating its 27th anniversary in 2022, and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation, which operated for fifteen years.  As a single woman, Cisneros made the choice to have books instead of children.  Her literary papers are preserved at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.  Currently she lives in San Miguel de Allende.  Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and earns her living by her pen.

Poet, author, feminist activist, former Ms. Editor in Chief, Robin Morgan has published 23 books, including three now-classic Sisterhood anthologies, her best-selling The Demon Lover, her prize-winning historical novel The Burning Time, and latest two: Parallax, a novel, and a seventh book of poems, Dark Matter. Her work is translated into 13 languages and she is the recipient of numerous honors. Co-founder (with Simone de Beauvoir) and President of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute, and co-founder (with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem) of The Women’s Media Center, she blogs, hosts the global podcast Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan.