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Poetry Reading

Fri, 08 Nov

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Pete's Candy Store

Devanshi Khetarpal, Ryan Black and Vernita Hall will read at Pete's Candy Store as part of the Pete's Big Salmon Reading Series on November 8, Friday, 2019 from 7pm to 8:30pm.

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Poetry Reading
Poetry Reading

Time & Location

08 Nov 2019, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA

About the Event

Ryan Black is the author of The Tenant of Fire (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Death of a Nativist, selected by Linda Gregerson for the Poetry Society of America's 2016 Chapbook Fellowship. He’s received fellowships and scholarships from the Adirondack Center for Writing, The Millay Colony for the Arts, PLAYA, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Queens Council on the Arts, and the T. S. Eliot House. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, and lives in Jackson Heights.

Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize for Poetry and of the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians, winner of the Moonstone (Press) Chapbook Contest. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,…

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