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SUMMARY:Ferguson/Ayotzinapa: CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond
DESCRIPTION:The Loisaida Center\npresents: \nFerguson/Ayotzinapa: CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond \nfeaturing: \nYesenia Montilla Peggy Robles-Alvarado Rio Cortez Darrel Alejandro Holnes \nRosebud Ben-Oni and Urayoán Noel \n\nThis event brings together New York-based current and former fellows of the national Latina/o poets workshop CantoMundo (cantomundo.org/) to read from their work in solidarity with ongoing protests and mobilizations in and around Ferguson\, Missouri\, and the College of Ayotzinapa in Iguala\, Mexico.Many of the poets reading are also participating in #CantoMundoLongestNight\, a social-media offering of poems in honor of the countless black and brown bodies slain by state-sanctioned violence. \nDarrel Alejandro Holnes is from Panama City and the former Canal Zone of Panamá. His poetry has been published in Poetry Magazine\, The Best American Experimental Writing\, Callaloo\, The Caribbean Writer\, The Potomac\, MEADE\, Lambda Literary\, Assaracus\, Weave Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, The Paris American\, Kweli\, featured on The Best American Poetry blog\, and elsewhere in print and online. He is the co-author of PRIME: Poetry & Conversations (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2014). He is a proud CantoMundo and Cave Canem fellow. darrelholnes.com \nYesenia Montilla is a New York City poet with Afro-Caribbean roots & CantoMundo Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in the literary journals: 5 AM\, Adanna\, Wideshore and others. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Her first collection of poetry The Pink Box is forthcoming from Willow Books in Fall 2015. \nBorn to a Mexican mother and Jewish father\, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a CantoMundo Fellow and the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective\, 2013). Her work is forthcoming or appears in POETRY\, The American Poetry Review\, Arts & Letters\, Bayou\, Puerto del Sol\, among others. Rosebud is an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Find out more at 7TrainLove.org \nCantoMundo fellow Urayoán Noel is the author of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa\, 2014) and several books of poetry in English and Spanish\, including EnUncIAdOr (Editora Emergente\, 2014) and the forthcoming Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona). Born in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, he lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/fergusonayotzinapa-cantomundo-poets-read-and-respond/
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