Join us for National Poetry Month as we celebrate selected readings from the Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology and original works by undergraduate poets Maizie Montoya, Marina Ramil, Matthew Torres, and Ana Zapata.

Distinguished Professor of English, Denise Duhamel, will lead an engaging discussion on the themes, styles, and historical contexts of these powerful poems. The afternoon will also provide opportunities for networking and connecting with fellow poetry enthusiasts over refreshments. Additionally, you can get creative with our online poetry board, where you can craft and share poems in both Spanish and English in real-time. Please RSVP!

About the Moderator

Professor Duhamel earned her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College and specializes in Poetry. She regularly teaches Poetic Techniques, Poetry Writing, Editing and Publishing, and Advanced Poetry Writing. Her most recent books of poetry are Pink Lady; Second Story; Scald; and Blowout, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She and the late Maureen Seaton co-authored four poetry collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New). Her collaboration with FIU Professor Julie Marie Wade, The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, was published by Noctuary Press in 2019. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She served as the guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013.

This program is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a major public humanities initiative taking place across the nation in 2024 and 2025, directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Emerson Collective.