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Oct. 15 was Hispanic Heritage Day at the Mercy College Bronx campus where students were encouraged to come out and support the Latin culture. Faculty, students, and friends gathered around as writer and community activist Maria Aponte performed some...

Freshmen in the Stacks: Adopt-A-Library Program Selects Winners The Freshman Fifteens, a group of first-time YA authors being published in 2015, recently initiated a project to grant two libraries working with teens with a full Freshman Fifteens library...

WORLD PREMIERE OF TEDDY FERRARA FROM PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST CHRISTOPHER SHINN OPENS FEBRUARY 11TH ***SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS INCLUDE FIRST-EVER STUDENT PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW, ON FEBRUARY 7, EXPANDED $10 TICKETS*** Previews are underway...

Current Projects I’m juggling primarily reading events. I coordinated three events scheduled for AWP 2016. I’ll be reading in “Jotas: A Chicana Lesbian Reading by Barrio-Based Writers.” I originally asked around 14 Chicanas, queer and straight, if they...

A seven-week site dedicated to the poetry of Now! and tomorrow / a pop-up cold brew, pour-over coffee, kombucha, and conversation bar in downtown Denver / a space that explores what it means to be a museum Now! Presented in collaboration with the Biennial...