Poetry off the Shelf: A CantoMundo Reading

Join us for a reading to celebrate CantoMundo’s 10 year anniversary featuring Julian Randall, Deborah Paredez, and Mónica de la Torre.

Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Callaloo, BOAAT and the Watering Hole. Julian is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the winner of the 2019 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from the Publishing Triangle. His poetry has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and POETRY. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Ole Miss. His first book of poetry, Refuse (Pitt, Fall 2018), is the winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry.

Deborah Paredez is a poet and performance scholar. She is the author of the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009) and of the poetry volumes, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002), and Year of the Dog (forthcoming BOA Editions 2020). Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, Poetry, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the impact of divas on her own life and on American culture more broadly. She is the Co-Founder and for a decade served as Co-Director (2009-2019) of CantoMundo, a national organization for Latinx poets. She lives in New York City where she teaches creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University.

Mónica de la Torre works with and between languages. Her latest book, The Happy End/All Welcome, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse, which also put out her translation of Defense of the Idol by Chilean modernist Omar Cáceres in 2018. Recent writing appears in Artforum, A Public Space, The Literary Review, and Folder. She teaches poetry at Brooklyn College. Repetition Nineteen, a new book of poems, is forthcoming from Nightboat in 2020.

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Copresented with CantoMundo & the Poetry Coalition.