Poetry off the Shelf: Willie Perdomo
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free admission, register in advance here
At 30 minutes before event start, guests with Eventbrite tickets will have priority entry to the performance space on a first-come, first-served basis. At 15 minutes prior to event start, the performance space is open to all guests. Seating capacity is limited. Eventbrite reservations do not guarantee entry or reserved seating.
Join us for a reading with poet Willie Perdomo. Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (1996), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award; Smoking Lovely (2004), winner of the PEN/Open Book Award; The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (2014), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and The Crazy Bunch (2019). He has received fellowships from Columbia University, Lucas Artists Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Perdomo currently teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy. There will be an ASL interpreted at this event. Perdomo will be joined by Davon Clark, Sara Salgado, Kyla Pereles, and The Third. Clark is a Philadelphia-raised writer and photographer based in Chicago using journalism to inform his work. Salgado has appeared in Rookie Magazine and The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape. She also creates poetry for film on her Youtube channel Sarita. Pereles is an award-winning poet and honor student inspired by her Puerto Rican heritage. The Third is a poet and rapper who has appeared on The Daily Show, Hamilton: The Musical, and Channel 7 News.