Roberto Harrison & Carmen Giménez Smith, Poetry Readings
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Race & Innovative Poetics Working Group
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Race & Innovative Poetics Working Group
Carmen Giménez Smith is a CantoMundo fellow and the author of a memoir and four poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. She co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing (Counterpath Press, 2014), and serves as the publisher of Noemi Press, which has published over 40 full-length collections of poetry and fiction. Her next collection of poems Cruel Futures, will be a volume in the City Lights Spotlight Series published in April, 2018. Be Recorder will be published by Graywolf Press in 2019. She is Professor of English at Virginia Tech.
Roberto Harrison's books include Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus Press, 2006), bicycle (Noemi Press, 2015), culebra (Green Lantern Press, 2016), Bridge of the World (Litmus, 2017), Yaviza (Atelos, 2017), as well as many chapbooks. With Andrew Levy, Roberto edited the poetry journal Crayon from 1997 to 2008, and he is also the editor of Bronze Skull Press which has published over 20 chapbooks, including the work of many Midwestern poets. Most recently Roberto served as a co-editor for the Resist Much/Obey Little anthology. He is the Milwaukee Poet Laureate for 2017-2019 and is also a visual artist. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife the poet Brenda Cárdenas.
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