Please Note: This is a virtual program via Zoom. Participants will receive a link to the program via email upon completing registration.

Join us for a night of poetry with Darrel Alejandro Holnes, winner of the 2022 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize for his book, Stepmotherland. He will be joined by Rosebud Ben-Oni who is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery (2021). 

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro-Panamanian American writer, performer, and educator. He serves on the faculty of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He is the author of the chapbook Migrant Psalms; and his writings have been published in literary journals, anthologies, and other books. He also writes for the stage.

Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of If This Is the Age We End Discovery and Turn Around, BRXGHT XYXS. Her chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets, which appears in Black Warrior Review (2020), is part of a larger future project, The Atomic Sonnets, begun in 2019, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Her work appears in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and other publications.

FREE! Registration is required. 

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