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SUMMARY:Performance: Poet Vince Gotera
DESCRIPTION:<p><img align="left" alt="The Coolest Month Book cover" height="300" src="https://sfpl.org/admin/events/lib/external/responsive_filemanager/source/Abe%20Ignacio/VGoteraCoolestMonthCover.jpg" width="200" /><a href="https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Gotera%2C%20Vicente%20F.&searchType=author">Vince Gotera</a> will read from his latest book of poetry, <em>The Coolest Month</em>. A work inspired by <a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/">NaPoWriMo</a>&nbsp;and Poem-a-Day.</p>

<p>"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!</p>

<p>&mdash; Robert Lee Brewer, author of <em>Solving the World's Problems</em>&nbsp;and editor of <em>Poet's Market</em></p>

<p><img align="right" alt="Vince Gotera portrait" height="200" src="https://sfpl.org/admin/events/lib/external/responsive_filemanager/source/Abe%20Ignacio/Vince%20Gotera%20Headshot%202021_edited.jpg" width="200" /></p>

<p>Vince Gotera teaches at the University of Northern Iowa, where he was Editor of the&nbsp;<em>North American Review</em>&nbsp;(2000-2016). He is also former Editor of&nbsp;<em>Star*Line</em>, the print journal of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (2017-2020). His poetry collections include&nbsp;<em>Dragonfly, Ghost Wars, Fighting Kite, The Coolest Month</em>. and the upcoming&nbsp;<em>Pacific Crossing.&nbsp;</em>Recent poems in<em>&nbsp;Dreams & Nightmares, The Ekphrastic Review, failed haiku, The MacGuffin, Philippines Graphic&nbsp;</em>(Philippines),<em>&nbsp;Rosebud, The Wild Word</em>&nbsp;(Germany),&nbsp;<em>Yellow Medicine Review,</em>&nbsp;and the anthologies<em>&nbsp;Multiverse&nbsp;</em>(UK),&nbsp;<em>Dear America,&nbsp;</em>and<em>&nbsp;Hay(na)ku 15</em>.</p>

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<p>Connect:</p>

<p><a href="http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/">Vince Gotera&nbsp;- Blog</a></p>

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<p>This event is presented by Filipino American Center and Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA).&nbsp;</p>
LOCATION:Main Library - African American Center Exhibit Space - 3rd Fl
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