Awardf-winning poet Yesenia Montilla will be on campus to read from her work on Monday, Feb. 16. The event will be held at 1 p.m. in the Greenberg Center in Harry Jack Gray.
Sample poems from Ms. Montilla's most recent collection, "Muse Found in a Colonized Body"
Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet and a daughter of immigrants. Her first collection, The Pink Box, was published by Willow Books and longlisted for a PEN Open Book award. Her second collection, Muse Found in a Colonized Body, published by Four Way Books in 2022, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Her translation work was recently displayed at “Climate Futurism” an exhibit at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY, and her poem “Maps” was part of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw’s oratorio The Listeners. She currently teaches poetry at The Juilliard School and lives in Harlem, NY.
More information about Ms. Montilla can be found on her website.
Questions? Please email grossberg@hartford.edu.