Emanuel Xavier, a poet described as a Bushwick native, is releasing a new poetry collection titled “Still, We Are Sacred,” with a launch event planned at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, according to a pitch sent to Bushwick Daily on the poet’s behalf. The message arrived from the address of Emanuel Berger at Penguin Random House and was signed “Emanuel.”
In the message, the sender said the book was set for an April 7 release and offered to work with the poet’s publicist on coverage tied to it. The pitch framed the collection around Bushwick’s cultural history, its queer community and the neighborhood’s creative life, themes the writer said he hoped to explore in a Bushwick Daily feature.
Tickets and details for the launch at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center are listed on Eventbrite, according to the pitch.
The note praised Bushwick Daily’s place in the neighborhood, calling the publication “such an essential part of the neighborhood’s cultural life.” “I truly mean that,” the sender wrote. The message added that the writer still misses the neighborhood, and referenced Bushwick Daily’s former poetry column, expressing hope that someone in the community might step up to help bring it back.
