Brooklyn Poets reading with Ricky Maldonado, Hafizah Geter, and Tarfia Faizullah
Join us for a virtual reading with Brooklyn Poets, featuring Ricky Maldonado, Hafizah Geter, and Tarfia Faizullah—who will read from new work.
Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter is an award-winning Nigerian-American poet, writer, and editor, and a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, Yale Review, and Paris Review, among others. She is the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American from Wesleyan University Press (2020), longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. hafizahgeter.com @RhetoricAndThis
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press) and the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Collateral / Colaterales (Akashic Press / National Poetry Series). His first collection of poems is The Life Assignment (Four Way Books), one of Remezcla’s 2020’s Best Books by Latine or Latin American Authors. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queer|Arts|Mentorship and CantoMundo, he serves as the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s Managing Director.
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf 2018) and Seam (SIU 2014). In 2016, Tarfia was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. Tarfia is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow, and lives in Dallas, TX.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
This program is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Join us for a virtual reading with Brooklyn Poets, featuring Ricky Maldonado, Hafizah Geter, and Tarfia Faizullah—who will read from new work.
Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter is an award-winning Nigerian-American poet, writer, and editor, and a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Boston Review, Longreads, Yale Review, and Paris Review, among others. She is the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American from Wesleyan University Press (2020), longlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. hafizahgeter.com @RhetoricAndThis
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press) and the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Collateral / Colaterales (Akashic Press / National Poetry Series). His first collection of poems is The Life Assignment (Four Way Books), one of Remezcla’s 2020’s Best Books by Latine or Latin American Authors. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queer|Arts|Mentorship and CantoMundo, he serves as the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s Managing Director.
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf 2018) and Seam (SIU 2014). In 2016, Tarfia was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. Tarfia is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow, and lives in Dallas, TX.
Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
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