Events
2020-2021 Events
Live Virtual Reading & Talk with Cyrus Grace Dunham
DATE: October 28th, 2020
TIME: 7 pm
VIRTUAL: http://bit.ly/CyrusBookTalk
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Join us for a live reading by Cyrus Dunham (they/them), critically acclaimed author of the trans memoir A Year Without a Name (Little, Brown, 2019). "I've never seen a gender journey rendered in more tender, riveting detail," says Mary Karr, author of The Liar's Club and The Art of Memoir. Following the reading will be a question and answer period with the audience. This event is free, virtual, and open to the public.
The link to join the virtual event will be emailed two days before the event date, October 28, 2020.
For information, questions about accessibility, or to request accommodations please contact OVAVP at (956) 665-8287 or email OVAVP@utrgv.edu
TITLE: An Evening with Francisco Aragon
DATE: October 21st, 2020
TIME: 6 pm
WHERE: https://www.facebook.com/utrgvcmas/
Poet Francisco Aragón will be presenting from his latest book "After Rubén." Aragón is the Director of Letras Latinas at the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame.
TITLE: Reaching Across Diaspora in Black Latinx Poetry
DATE: October 14th, 2020
TIME: 6 pm
WHERE: https://www.facebook.com/utrgvcmas/
Description: Malcolm Friend, author of the poetry collections "mxd kd mixtape" and "Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple," will lead a discussion of poems in the "Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States," share some of his own work, and talk a bit on the connections made to other Black diasporas in Black Latinx poetry today.
This is the first event in a year-long CMAS celebration of the 10th anniversary of the "Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States." In the Discussion area of this Event page, we will post a link to some of the poems from the Reader.
Bio: Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University, and his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of the chapbook "mxd kd mixtape" (Glass Poetry, 2017) and the full-length collection "Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple" (Inlandia Books, 2018), selected by Cynthia Arrieu-King as winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Together with JR Mahung he is a member of Black Plantains, an Afrocaribbean poetry collective.
This will be livestreamed, but if you prefer joining via Webinar, please register in advance at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vqJR8VV9StGiUYjKZf_Irg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
For more information or accommodations for the event, please contact emmy.perez@utrgv.edu.