Co-sponsored with the NYU English Department and the Poetry Society of America
A reading with Saeed Jones, Pamela Sneed, and Christopher Soto to celebrate Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat, May 2018), a survey of poetry by queer poets of color throughout U.S. history.
Saeed Jones’s debut collection Prelude to a Bruise was named a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Pamela Sneed is the author of two collections of poetry, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery and KONG And Other Works and the chapbook, Lincoln. Anthology editor Christopher Soto is the author of Sad Girl Poems and the chapbook How to Eat Glass.
Event is free and open to the public.
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
