When: September 5, 2024 | 4:30PM – 6:30PM

Where: Seigle Hall, Room 306

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Join us for a poetry reading and workshop with Yesenia Montilla.

Throughout history muses have manifested creativity and reshaped the artist’s eye. In this generative workshop we will tap into the power of the muse as well as our own creative histories to create poems that challenge and surprise.

Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry & Poetry in translation. She is a CantoMundo graduate fellow and a 2020 NYFA fellow. Her work has been published in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast and in Best of American Poetry 2021 and 2022. Her first collection The Pink Box is published by Willow Books & was longlisted for a PEN Open Book award. Her second collection Muse Found in a Colonized Body published by Four Way Books in 2022 was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She lives in Harlem, NY.

Space for this event is limited RSVP below.