Reading and Workshop with Willie Perdomo

Presented by Nashville Public Library at Nashville Public Library - Main Library

April 15, 2012

Reading and Workshop with Willie Perdomo

Willie Perdomo is the author of Postcards of El Barrio (Isla Negra Press, 2002) and Where A Nickel Costs A Dime (Norton, 1996), as well as Visiting Langston, a picture book illustrated by Bryan Collier. (Henry Holt/Books for Young Readers, 2002). His work has been included in several anthologies including Poems of New York (Everyman's Library/Knopf, 2002), Bum...

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Willie Perdomo is the author of Postcards of El Barrio (Isla Negra Press, 2002) and Where A Nickel Costs A Dime (Norton, 1996), as well as Visiting Langston, a picture book illustrated by Bryan Collier. (Henry Holt/Books for Young Readers, 2002). His work has been included in several anthologies including Poems of New York (Everyman's Library/Knopf, 2002), Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Three Rivers Press, 2002) and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Café (Holt, 1995).

Perdomo has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, Urban Latino and other publications. He has been featured on television in the PBS documentaries Words In Your Face and The United States Of Poetry , and in HBO'S Def Poetry Jam. He also co-wrote an episode for the HBO animated series Spicy City and recorded on Flippin' the Script: Rap Meets Poetry (Mouth Almighty Records/Mercury, 1996). Perdomo is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship 1996 and the NYFA Poetry Fellowship 2001. He lives in New York City. Join Mr. Perdomo as he hosts a reading from his poetry and a workshop for aspiring poets.

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