"Poets are not supposed to be love, they are done to love" ✊✊

TOMORROW launch of the book, "The Kaleidoscope" result of #TheYoungLegacyproject funded by Culture Within Newham We are organising a full day of activities. programme includes: workshops, poetry reading, open mic, and a creative craft stall throughout the day 🙏🏼👊🏽✍🏼 📕 📖

Aymara at Stratford Library with Sonia Quintero from Newham Poetry Club. A great opportunity to align culture and the promotion of good sexual health, to raise awareness about HIV, regular testing and the need to fight stigma. Congratulations Sonia for your work! #sexualhealth

Thanks Culture Within Newham and #Stratfordlibrary team Newham Libraries Great day launching #YoungLegacy project. #YoungLegacy #SpokenWord #CommunityVibes #newhamculture #newhamcreative #CultureAndHealth #newhamdiversity

Last day collecting thoughts in #ForestGate Next, we bring our #NewhamColours map to life — piecing it together, inviting poetry inspired by it, ironing it (yes!) and getting it ready for our exhibition: “Newham In Different Forms” — a name chosen by the community. Newham London 💙

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community. We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect? Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity.

Here’s the present and future of poetry! 9 years of planting seeds and nurturing voices. Over nearly a decade, our poets have published books, launched creative careers, hosted open mics, and joined inspiring writing projects across London and beyond.

Thanks Royal Museums Greenwich for inviting us to the facilitated sessions for next #RefugeeWeek Together, we’re using our superpowers to build community and solidarity 👊🏽👊🏽

Setting up an exhibition for #RefugeeWeek & #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Opens Wed 11 June at Stratford Library, then Forest Gate. Exploring diversity, belonging & the voices of LGBTQ+ & asylum-seeking communities. In collab with Newham London 💙 #QueerNewham Come see it! 🌍📚#mappingnewham

Libraries are the heart of our communities. Where else can the community gather, grassroots groups grow, and artists dream together? There stories are born, voices are heard, and futures are imagined. libraries hold the pulse of our neighbourhoods Newham London 💙 Newham Libraries

Our libraries are the heart of our community 💚💚💚

Exhibition for #RefugeeWeek and #Pride 🏳️‍🌈✨open at Stratford Library. what kind of borough we want to build? This exhibition invites you to engage, reflect, and be part of the conversation. 🗣️ Join us in celebrating diversity, resilience, and creative resistance.

⸻ 🐝✨ What does your community feel like? we explored this through the vibrant metaphor of a beehive—a buzzing, interconnected space where everyone plays a role, no matter how small. 💛 Newham never ceases to amaze us — thank you to all who came, shared, and created!

Newham Poetry Group is going borderless! 🌍✍️ From Newham to Greenwich to Southwark — our words are taking root beyond the borough. Thanks to Royal Museums Greenwich & Southwark Council for recognising our work. Pure borderless poetry power 🌱🔥 #PoetryWithoutBorders #NewhamPoetry

#RefugeeWeek isn’t just about celebrating diversity — it’s a call to action. Women flee domestic violence. LGBTQ+ people flee from 70+ countries where their existence is criminalised. Proud to stand with @QueerNewham Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging Royal Museums Greenwich Our superpower is community.

🌈📖 Powerful poetry session at Southwark Library for #RefugeeWeek & #PrideMonth. In a world of unkind voices, ours are radical & necessary. We wrote, we listened, we resisted — with poems of journey, identity & hope. #LGBTQRefugees #PoetryIsPower

Dear Poets, Join us today at 6:15 PM at Stratford Library for our weekly poetry session. If you haven't attended before, please register in advance by emailing [email protected] Please note that poetry sessions are open exclusively to registered members. 👊🏽✍🏼

Weekly poetry sessions - what to join us? Please email [email protected]

Newham Poetry Group stand with our LGBTQ+, BAME, refugee & migrant communities—this is a space to feel safe, seen & heard. Pride is not a party. It’s a protest. And our poetry is part of that resistance. ✊🏽🌈📝 #PrideIsAProtest #QueerSolidarity #PoetryForChange

there is no weekly session today as the library is hosting its #PeoplePowerPlaces programme. We’ll be back next week at the usual time and place — and we look forward to seeing you then! Thanks for your understanding and enjoy the library’s event if you’re attending.