Saturday, April 10, 2021 - Virtual Event Via Zoom
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Zoom meeting

José Olivarez

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants and the author of the book of poems, Citizen Illegal a finalist for the PEN/ Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. In 2018, he was awarded the first annual Author and Artist in Justice Award from the Phillips Brooks House Association. Along with Felicia Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he is co-editing the forthcoming anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT. He is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, & the Conversation Literary Festival. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Chicago Magazine & elsewhere.

W. Todd Kaneko

W. Todd Kaneko is the author of This Is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies, 2nd Edition (New Michigan Press 2021), and co-author wth Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic 2018) and Slash / Slash, winner of the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest. He lives and teaches in Michigan. His prose and poetry have appeared in Poetry, Alaskan Quarterly Review, The Normal School, Barrelhouse, Best Small Fictions, and many other places. A Kundiman Fellow, he lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches at Grand Valley State University.