2:00 - 3:30
Vince Gotera will read from his latest book of poetry, The Coolest Month. A work inspired by NaPoWriMo and Poem-a-Day.
"For poets, April really is the coolest month. And this is a very cool collection of poems inspired by April poetry prompts from multiple sources. Read the poems, check out the prompts that inspired them, and then, who knows? Maybe you'll feel inspired to write your own!
— Robert Lee Brewer, author of Solving the World's Problems and editor of Poet's Market
Vince Gotera teaches at the University of Northern Iowa, where he was Editor of the North American Review (2000-2016). He is also former Editor of Star*Line, the print journal of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (2017-2020). His poetry collections include Dragonfly, Ghost Wars, Fighting Kite, The Coolest Month. and the upcoming Pacific Crossing. Recent poems in Dreams & Nightmares, The Ekphrastic Review, failed haiku, The MacGuffin, Philippines Graphic (Philippines), Rosebud, The Wild Word (Germany), Yellow Medicine Review, and the anthologies Multiverse (UK), Dear America, and Hay(na)ku 15.
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This event is presented by Filipino American Center and Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA).
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