Book Release and Back-to-School Writers’ Celebration

Book Release and Back-to-School Writers’ Celebration

When: Tuesday, Sept. 15
Time: 3:30-5 p.m.
Where: Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2

Susana Plotts-Pineda is an artist and poet. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Award in Mexico City. “In Order to Extract the Memory it is of Course Necessary to Build the Room” from Futurepoem is her first book of poetry.

Misael Osorio-Conde is a poet and translator. He earned his MFA at the University of Notre Dame and is currently enrolled in the Program for Writers at University of Illinois Chicago. Some of his poems have appeared in the journals Protean Magazine, The Texas Review and The Brooklyn Rail. “Some Were Just the Fragments,” his first book, is out from Baobab Press.

Co-sponsored by UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas, the Program for Writers, and the Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center.