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Join us for a reading celebrating online journals and featuring poets and writers from The Acentos Review and Ozone Park Journal. A question and answer session with the journal editors will follow the reading.
The Acentos Review publishes poetry, fiction, memoir, interviews, translations, and artwork by emerging and established Latino/a writers and artists four times a year. It is an offshoot of the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase and The Acentos Foundation. www.acentosreview.com
Mundo Rivera is a writer born and raised in El Barrio. He has published articles in the New York Post and Urban Latino magazine and has a poem in the fourth issue of Palabra, a Chicano and Latino literary journal based in Los Angeles. He is a 2-time regional workshop participant at Cave Canem and has attended artist-in-residence programs at Fundación Valparaiso in Mojacar, España and La Napoule Art Foundation near Cannes. He is working on a book of poems titled Breaking El Cuco and a novel based on the New York City blackout of 1977. He is currently a literacy coach and a teacher of humanities to 7th graders at the Urban Assembly School for the Urban Environment in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Christina Olivares is a poet, boxer, and educator living in New York City. She is completing her MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College and received her BA from Amherst College. She is the recipient of a 2008-2009 Teachers and Writers Collaborative Fellowship and is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee for her poem 'Shining." Her work has been published in nth, The Acentos Review, No, Dear, and The Brooklyn Review. She reads widely throughout the city.
Editor Raina J. León, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, has been published in The Sixers Review, The Externalist, Natural Bridge, African American Review, OCHO, Spindle Magazine, Black Arts Quarterly, Poem.Memoir.Story, Boxcar Poetry Review, Salt Hill Journal, Xavier Review, MiPoesias, Torch, and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade among others with upcoming work in Verdad Magazine and Bosphorus Art Project Quarterly. Her first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). She co-edits and is the webmaster for The Acentos Review.
Editor Eliel Lucero is a native New Yorker of Afro-Dominican decent. He is a mentor for Urban Word NYC, where he facilitates poetry workshops for teenagers. His poetry appears in International Poetry Review (The University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and is forthcoming in Barbershop Chronicles (Penmanship Publishing Group). He co-edits The Acentos Review.
Ozone Park is a biannual online journal of new writing publishing Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Plays and Translation from emerging and established writers. Ozone Park is edited and designed by graduate students in the Queens College MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation program of the City University of New York. www.ozoneparkjournal.org
Thaddeus Rutkowski is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the innovative novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. His stories and poems have been nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize. Since 2007, he has been the fiction and nonfiction editor of Many Mountains Moving magazine, based in Denver. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.
Francine Rubin's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ozone Park, Fringe Magazine, Fuselit, Long Island Pulse, and Pank. Growing up in NY, Francine trained at the School of American Ballet. She has since worked on occasion as a freelance dancer and ballet teacher, and now counts movement and performance as sources of inspiration for her writing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and a BA in Theater from Dartmouth College.
Editor Deonne Kahler is studying for her MFA in creative writing at Queens College, CUNY, and is the current editor-in-chief of the program’s literary journal, Ozone Park. Her work has recently appeared in New Mexico Magazine and online at A Prairie Home Companion, and before she moved to New York she wrote the music column “The Hum” for The Taos News. She still misses the backstage passes. Visit Deonne at her blog www.lifeonthehighwire.com.
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Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, the William Robinson Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of Arts Westchester with funds from Westchester County Government.