Poetry with Enia Oaks at Cafe con Libros

Join us on Saturday, August 02, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM at Cafe con Libros (724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216) for a literary salon & celebration of Black womanhood. Hosted by Enia Oaks, author of From a Studio in Oakland, California: 108 Notes on Existence, with author Shanice Maxwell & playwright Jasmine Zang; it will feature live readings, soft music, light refreshments, & intimate conversation.

Enia Oaks is a Nigerian-born emergency medicine doctor and author who writes at the intersection of self-inquiry, healing, and transcendence. She has spent years in high-stakes medical environments before turning inward to begin exploring the emotional, spiritual, and existential truths that shaped her. Her creative voice crystallized while living in Oakland, California, where she began to translate lived experience into language. Her debut book, From a Studio in Oakland, California: 108 Notes on Existence, is a collection of poems and micro-essays that navigate the space between the ache and awe of being alive. Through quiet wisdom and refined clarity, her work invites readers into deeper intimacy with their own becoming.

This collection of poems and essays is for those who sit at the crossroads of past and future, wondering which way to turn. Those who have bravely restarted and are building new homes from within themselves. Those who believe in the grand experience of life and living it fully, even when it asks everything of them. Those hurting, healing, or transforming. For the ones who are seeking meaning or a deep exploration of the layers of existence.