Quinnipiac University To Host Poetry Panel, ‘Latinx/LGBTQ Intersections,’ On Oct. 19

HAMDEN, CT - From Quinnipiac University: Three poets will read their work as part of a panel entitled, “Latinx/LGBTQ Intersections,” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the piazza at the Carl Hansen Student Center, 275 Mount Carmel Ave.

The event is free and open to the public.

The poets, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and Bessy Reyna, also will answer questions from the audience following their readings.

Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Ben-Oni writes weekly for the Kenyon Review blog and teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Her most-recent collection of poems, “Turn Around, BRXGHT XYXS,”was selected as the Editors’ Choice award winner by Agape Editions, and will be published in 2019.

Holnes is a poet and playwright whose poem, “Praise Song for My Mutilated World,” won the 2017 C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize. He also is the co-author of, “PRIME: Poetry & Conversations.” He is currently an assistant professor of creative writing and dramatic writing at the City University of New York’s Medgar Evers College and New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Reyna, a former Hartford Courant columnist, was born in Cuba and raised in Panama. Her bilingual poetry book, “Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover,” was published in 2010. She was inducted into the Connecticut Immigrant Heritage Hall of Fame, honored by the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, and named Latina Citizen of the Year by the state’s Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission.

This event is part of the “YAWP!” series, an open dialogue on creativity and the arts sponsored by the creative writing program at Quinnipiac.

For more information, call (203) 582-8652.

About Quinnipiac University
Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 7,000 full-time undergraduate and 3,000 graduate and part-time students in 110 degree programs through its Schools of Business, Communications, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing andCollege of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s “Best Colleges” issue. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review’s “The Best 381 Colleges.” The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the “Great Colleges to Work For.” For more information, please visit QU.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at Facebook.com/quinnipiacunews and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.

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