Poet and Editor Rigoberto González
Join us for a conversation with Rigoberto González, award-winning poet and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers Newark, and editor of a major new anthology, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Sept. 2024), from the Library of America.
On Good Morning America, National Book Award-winner Elizabeth Acevedo called it “a landmark literary feat,” and said, “This collection is as much literary riot as it is reference text.”
Rigoberto González
4:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 11
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room – Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222
Presented by the NYS Writers Institute.
His most recent collection is To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems, Selected and New (2023), an autobiographical meditation on migration, masculinity, sexuality, isolation and the aging body. Toi Derricotte said, “In this stunning collection, a brilliant mind shapes a magical landscape from the ruins.”
Watch an interview with Rigoberto González: https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/rigobertogonzalez
Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Writing & Critical Inquiry Program (WCI), and the Department of Africana, Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies (ALACLS).
