Thursday, February 6, 2025
Workshop
10 – 11 am CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Memorial Library, First Floor, SW Corner
This event is free and open to the public.
Craft Talk
3 – 3:50 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Room 253/4/5
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Reading
7:30 – 8:15 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Room 253/4/5
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Willie Perdomo is the author of Smoking Lovely: The Remix (Haymarket Books, 2021), The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Random House, 2019), The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Random House, 2014), and Where a Nickel Costs of Dime (Norton, 1996). Winner of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, the New York City Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN Open Book Award, Perdomo was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He is co-editor of the anthology, Latínext, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, Washington Post, The Best AmericanPoetry 2019, and African Voices. He is currently a Lucas Arts Literary Fellow, a core faculty member at VONA/Voices of our Nation Writing Workshop, and teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy.