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Reading with Raina Leon and Barbara Curiel
We’re thrilled to present traveling poet Raina Leon and local poet Barbara Brinson Curiel!
Doors at 7:30
$5-20 sliding scale
Raina J. León, member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo, Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Montana Artists Refuge, the Macdowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of LatinX arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.
Barbara Brinson Curiel’s book Mexican Jenny and Other Poems won the 2012 Philip Levine prize and was published in 2014 by Anhinga Press. She has published poems in the journals: Kweli, Huizsache, and The Acentos Review. Her poems are included in the collection Cantar de Espejos: Poesía Testimonial Chicana por Mujeres published in Mexico, as well as in other anthologies. Barbara is a member of the coordinating committee of CantoMundo. She is also a professor in the departments of Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Humboldt State University in California.