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Danbury Library: Live Virtual Program: An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Darrel Alejandro Holnes and Rosebud Ben-Oni

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Danbury Library recently issued the following announcement.

Thursday, April 21, 2022

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM                 

Please  Note: This is a virtual program via Zoom. Participants will receive a  link to the program via email upon completing registration.

Join us for a night of poetry with Darrel Alejandro Holnes, winner of the 2022 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize for his book, Stepmotherland. He will be joined by Rosebud Ben-Oni who is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery (2021). 

Darrel  Alejandro Holnes is an Afro-Panamanian American writer, performer, and  educator. He serves on the faculty of the Gallatin School of  Individualized Study at New York University. He is the author of the  chapbook Migrant Psalms; and his writings have been published in literary journals, anthologies, and other books. He also writes for the stage.

Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of If This Is the Age We End Discovery and Turn Around, BRXGHT XYXS. Her chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets, which appears in Black Warrior Review (2020), is part of a larger future project, The Atomic Sonnets,  begun in 2019, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Her  work appears in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American  Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and other publications.

FREE! Registration is required. 

Please  be advised that the Library makes no warranties and/or representations  concerning the virtual programs. Your decision to participate in the  programs is an express consent on your part to waive any and all claims  against the Library which may result from said participation and hereby  release and discharge the City of Danbury / Danbury Public Library from  any and all liabilities.

Event Type(s): Author & Book Talks

Age Group(s): Adults

Presenter: Darrel Alejandro Holnes & Rosebud Ben-Oni

Katherine Mostacero

(203) 797-4505 ext. 7713

kmostacero@danburylibrary.org

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