Date: October 16, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: McKenna Hall, Reyes Family Board Room (2nd floor)
Events

Letras Latinas 20th Anniversary Event

Wednesday, October 16, 5pm to 6:30pm
Reyes Family Board Room, 2nd floor, McKenna Hall

Sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies and the Library of America.

Letras Latinas’ 20th anniversary celebration continues. For this sixth installment of our yearlong celebration, we welcome Presidential Inaugural Poet and National Humanities Medal recipient, RICHARD BLANCO. He will be joined by RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ, award-winning writer, editor, and critic, whose most recent book, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, we will also be celebrating. Special guest SUSANA PLOTTS-PINEDA, from the Library of America, will be on hand to speak about this ground-breaking volume.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Reception to follow at the conclusion of the event.

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Creative Writing Program, the Center for Social Concerns, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Initiative on Race and Resilience, the Poetry Foundation,  the St. Joe County Public Library (South Bend, Indiana), and José E. Fernández Hispanic Caribbean Studies Initiative

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