Book Conversation: “What to Carry Into the Future” with author Sue Landers and Professor Celina K. Su

Join us as we celebrate Sue Landers’s What to Carry Into the Future. Landers will be joined in conversation by Professor Celina Su, author of Budget Justice.

About the Book

What to Carry Into the Future emerged from riding every NYC subway from end to end. Set within the city’s subways, streets, and waterways, the collection charts the continuous aftermath of catastrophe alongside the city’s many pleasures.  The collection uses transportation and location as a metaphor and a conduit to explore beleaguered social relationships and standards that are challenged by political and natural forces. When we look for a city’s infrastructure, where do we find it, what do we see, and what does it tell us about how we’re living?

About the Speakers

Sue Landers is the author of four poetry collections. Her latest, What to Carry Into the Future, emerged from riding every NYC subway from end to end. Her poems have appeared in Poem-A-Day, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She was the former executive director of Lambda Literary and currently serves as Director of Content Strategy at Brooklyn College.

Celina Su is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at CUNY. Her latest book is Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities, from Princeton University Press. Her other publications include Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Cornell University Press) and pieces in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, n+1, and elsewhere.