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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Dorsía Smith Silva & Vincent Toro
DESCRIPTION:Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning\, CavanKerry\, 2024) and Vincent Toro (Hivestruck\, Penguin 2024) will explore why their writing in these precarious times is essential\, especially as their writing embodies protest poetry. They will discuss protest writing as a transformative experience and means to address US colonialism\, Latinx identity\, and the intersections between Puerto Rico\, ecopoetics\, capitalism\, neoliberalism\, and environmental and economic destruction. As they share how their poetry can lead to collective action and empowerment\, Dorsía and Vincent will also address some contemporary racial\, social\, and political injustices that many marginalized communities confront. The conversation will end with a focus on the power and importance of protest poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Poets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry\, 2024)\, which was a category finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award\, Eric Hoffer Award\, Whirling Prize\, and Da Vinci Eye Award\, reviewed by Publishers Weekly\, and recommended by Ms. Magazine. She is a Poetry Editor at The Hopper and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico\, Río Piedras. Literary Hub\, Poets.org\, Poetry Daily\, The Beloit Poetry Journal\, and The Los Angeles Review have published her work\, and she has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Moreover\, she is the editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering and the co-editor of seven books. Looking to increase the visibility of poetry by BIPOC authors\, she is the creator of the Smith Silva Challenge which is a reading challenge that highlights poetry books by BIPOC authors. Dorsía Smith Silva has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and Language. She is on social media @DSmithSilva. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVincent Toro is the author of three poetry collections: Hivestruck (Penguin Random House 2024)\, Tertulia (Penguin Random House 2020)\, and Stereo.Island.Mosaic (Ahsahta 2016)\, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. His work has been published in dozens of magazines and journals and has been anthologized in Saul Williams’ CHORUS\, Puerto Rico En Mi Corazon\, Best American Experimental Writing\, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT\, and Latino Poetry: The Library of American Anthology. Vincent is also an award-winning playwright and stage performer\, is Assistant professor of English at Rider University\, a Letras Boricuas Writing Fellow\, and contributing Poetry editor for Kweli Literary Journal. 
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nicky Beer & Catherine Pierce
DESCRIPTION:As poets\, essayists\, and teachers\, both Nicky and Catherine embrace a practice of play. Far from being frivolous\, or antithetical to serious and complex work\, play can be an essential part of the creative process. In this conversation\, Nicky and Catherine (or Katie)—longtime friends from their grad school days more than twenty years ago—will talk with each other about their own approach to play as writers and teachers\, and will explore how play\, through form\, subject\, voice\, and the generative process\, can help us stay nimble and engaged in our work. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Nicky\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicky Beer is a bi/queer writer\, and the author of The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon\, 2015) and The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon\, 2010)\, both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. Her third book of poems\, Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes\, was published by Milkweed Editions March 2022\, and was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation\, a MacDowell Fellowship\, a fellowship and a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, a Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College\, a Discovery/The Nation Award\, and a Campbell Corner Prize. Her poems have been published in Best American Poetry\, Poetry\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, The Southern Review\, Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. She is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver\, where she is a poetry editor for the journal Copper Nickel. \n\n\n\nYou can contact her at nicole.beer@ucdenver.edu\, and follow her on Instagram: @nbeerpoet. \n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Dustin Moon Visual \n\n\n\nAbout Catherine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Pierce’s fifth book of poetry\, Dear Beast\, is newly out from Saturnalia Books. Her memoir-in-essays\, Foxes for Everybody\, was published by Northwestern University Press in January 2026. \n\n\n\nPierce served as the Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2021-2025. She is the author of Danger Days (2020)\, The Tornado Is the World (2016)\, The Girls of Peculiar (2012)\, and Famous Last Words (2008)\, all from Saturnalia Books. She is a three-time winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize\, and her first book\, Famous Last Words\, won the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. \n\n\n\nPierce’s poems have been published in many journals and anthologies\, including The Best American Poetry\, Poetry Magazine\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, Ploughshares\, The Sun\, The Southern Review\, New England Review\, Pleiades\, and the 2019 and 2021 Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her essays appear in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Ecotone\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Cincinnati Review\, and River Teeth. In 2019\, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow\, and in 2022 she was selected as an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate Fellow. \n\n\n\nPierce earned her B.A. from Susquehanna University\, her M.F.A. from the Ohio State University\, and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri before moving to Mississippi to join the faculty at Mississippi State University. From 2007-2024\, she was professor of English and co-director of the creative writing program at Mississippi State. She recently moved with her family back to her home state of Delaware\, where she runs Studio & Craft\, a poetry community\, and continues to write\, teach\, and spend as much time outside as possible. \n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Becca Neufeld
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