Vita E. Cleveland and Kayla Weeden will conduct a poetry reading at Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark St., on Thursday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Chicago-based Cleveland(she/they)—a Black trans poet and percussionist from Cleveland, Ohio—writes and performs poetry with an emphasis on activism as “disruptive narrative.” Weeden(she/her) is a queer poet in her junior year at DePaul University.

See WomenAndChildrenFirst.com.