This Little Glade: Sharing Plants, Poetry, and Rooted Power with BAC Artist-in-Residence Rita Mookerjee – In partnership with Hudson Valley Books for Humanity

This Little Glade: Sharing Plants, Poetry, and Rooted Power
with BAC Artist-in-Residence Rita Mookerjee
In partnership with Hudson Valley Books for Humanity

Location: Hudson Valley Books for Humanity (67 Central Ave, Ossining NY)
Date & Time: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 7-8:15 PM
Ages: 18+
FREE Community Program. Registration encouraged.
Walk-ins welcome until we reach capacity. 

Let us come together and create in the name of green life. Join BAC Artist-in-Residence Rita Mookerjee at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity for This Little Glade: Sharing Plants, Poetry, and Rooted Power. 

In this intersectional writing event, we will draw upon the power of rhizomes and root systems to enrich our writing processes with the knowledge and language of plants. Using contemporary feminist poetics, we will analyze plants as metaphors and as powerful centers of adaptation and renewal.  

Rita will close the session with a reading from her second collection, Banana Heart. You will leave with new writing, a cutting/seeds, and intimate knowledge of plant magic.

Bring with you a notebook, your favorite writing utensil, and a plant cutting or seeds to exchange. 

ABOUT HUDSON VALLEY BOOKS FOR HUMANITY
For this Community Program, we are thrilled to be collaborating with our partners and friends at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity, a welcoming space to build community through books and art. Find Hudson Valley Books for Humanity on social media @hudsonvalleybooksforhumanity, on their website hvbooksforhumanity.com, or visit them at 67 Central Avenue, Ossining, NY 10562.

ABOUT RITA
Rita Mookerjee is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. She is the winner of the 2024 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award and the author of False Offering (JackLeg Press). In 2020, she co-founded Honey Literary, a 501(c)3 arts and literary nonprofit. She is also the vice president of Sundress Publications and a poetry editor at Split Lip Magazine. Find her work in American Poetry Review, CALYX, Copper Nickel, Poet Lore, and the Offing.

This Community Program is a part of BAC’s Annual Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partners. 

Learn more about this year’s Fall Multidisciplinary Residency here!

BAC’s 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency is made possible with support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature, Westchester County Board of Legislators, ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government.