Poetry: Willie Perdomo, The Crazy Bunch
Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 6:00 PM
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YouTube Premiere | open to the public | by donation | no registration required
Our New York City Book Award-winning poet reads from his latest work - a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era.
Willie Perdomo is the author of three previous poetry collections: Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award; Smoking Lovely, the winner of the 2004 PEN Open Book Award; and The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, BOMB, and The Common. Perdomo teaches at the Phillips Exeter Academy.
