[Crwt-undergrad-info] TOMAS RIVERA Lecture Series, Oct. 25

[Alex Espinoza]

Please join us on Oct 25 from 2-3 pm in INTS 1111 for a poetry reading and
cobversation by Raina J. León, Jasminne Mendez, and Yesenia Montilla. This
event is sure to be a knockout. If you can't join us in person, follow this
Zoom link <https://tinyurl.com/riveraoct25> to listen in wherever you may
be. All pertinent info is included on the flier attached here. Author bios
below.

See you there!

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*Raina J. León, PhD* is Black, Afro-Boricua from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape
ancestral lands). She is a mother, daughter, sister, madrina, comadre,
partner, poet, writer, and teacher educator. She believes in collective
action and community work, the profound power of holding space for the
telling of our stories, and the liberatory practice of humanizing
education. She seeks out communities of care and craft and is a member of
the Carolina African American Writers Collective, Cave Canem, CantoMundo,
Macondo. She is the author of Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn,  sombra :
(dis)locate, and the chapbooks, , profeta without refuge and Areyto to
Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self. She publishes across forms in
visual art, poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and scholarly work.  She has
received fellowships and residencies with the Obsidian Foundation,
Community of Writers, Montana Artists Refuge, Macdowell, Kimmel Harding
Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the Tyrone Guthrie
Center in Annamaghkerrig, Ireland and Ragdale, among others. She is a
founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international
journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She
educates our present and future agitators/educators as a full professor of
education at Saint Mary’s College of California, only the third Black
person (all Black women) and the first Afro-Latina to achieve that rank
there.  She is additionally a digital archivist, emerging visual artist,
writing coach, and curriculum developer.

*Jasminne Mendez* is a Dominican-American poet, playwright, educator and
award-winning author. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by The
Acentos Review, The New England Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and
others. She is an alumni of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific
Lutheran University and the author of several books for children and adults
including Island of Dreams which won an International Latino Book Award in
2015. She is a faculty member with the Goddard College MFA Creative Writing
Program and she lives in Houston, TX.

*Yesenia Montilla* is an Afro-Latina poet & a daughter of immigrants. She
received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry & Poetry in translation.
She is CantoMundo graduate fellow and a 2020 NYFA fellow. Her work has been
published in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, Gulf
Coast and in Best of American Poetry 2021 and forthcoming in Best of
American Poetry 2022. Her first collection The Pink Box is published by
Willow Books & was longlisted for a PEN award. Her second collection Muse
Found in a Colonized Body is forthcoming from Four Way Books, 2022. She
lives in Harlem, NY.

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*Alex Espinoza*
Associate Professor
Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair
Department of Creative Writing
INTN 3046 | alex.espinoza2 at ucr.edu
www.alexespinoza.com
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