The New Third World is a monthly poetry reading series inspired by the Non-Aligned Movement’s dream for the third world. Each convening brings together six poets and performers whose works emerge from the collision of global and personal histories from the perspective of the ‘third world,’ and its diasporas, addressing such themes as: autobiography, exile, homecoming, hybridity, distance, diaspora, memory, futurity, transnationalism, translation, life-writing, and liberational politics.

We return to the historical moment of the Third World Movement (1955–1989) as a rupture-point when anticolonial and liberational strategies for people of color across the globe crossed, collided, and formed a net. We do this to remind ourselves that we are still being held in that net. To remember what is too easily forgotten but cannot be lost. These legacies of global solidarity are our inheritance. In spite of what US cultural politics may imply, our communities are not as alone, disconnected/severed, or superficially-unified as we may feel. How could we be when we are each other’s past, present, and future?

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Writer and event producer Malvika Jolly lives on occupied Munsee, Lenape, and Wappinger land. She curates the New Third World, a monthly reading series inspired by the Non-Aligned Movement's dream for the third world.