Don’t miss Melania Luisa Marte this Hispanic Heritage Month – the perfect combination of entertainment, education, and the heart of belonging. Renowned Spoken-Word Poet, National Audie Winner, Afro-Latina Writer and Speaker, and Penguin Random House Author of “Plantains and our Becoming.”

“We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow feel at home.”
Poet and musician Melania Luisa Marte opens PLANTAINS AND OUR BECOMING by pointing out that Afro-Latina is not a word recognized by the dictionary. But the dictionary is far from a record of the truth. What does it mean, then, to tend to your own words and your own record—to build upon the legacies of your ancestors?