Chet'la Sebree — Turn Where: A Geography of Home
Poet and essayist Chet'la Sebree presents her essay collection on place, belonging, and the complicated search for home, at Politics and Prose at Union Market.
Why we picked this
Sebree writes with a poet's attention to language and an essayist's willingness to sit with contradiction — this collection asks what it means to feel at home when home has never been uncomplicated.
Chet’la Sebree presents Turn Where: A Geography of Home, a collection of essays that tracks one woman’s search for home — geographic, cultural, and psychological — across landscapes that rarely offer simple answers. Sebree, whose debut poetry collection Chime won the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest, brings the same formal precision and emotional honesty to her essays.
The book charts a probing interior journey through the places Sebree has lived, studied, and loved, exploring how Black women’s relationships to place are shaped by history, expectation, and desire. It is a geography as much emotional as physical — a reckoning with what we mean when we say we belong somewhere.
The event is free and open to the public at Politics and Prose at Union Market, 1324 4th Street NE, Washington DC.