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Willie Perdomo
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Willie Perdomo grew up in East Harlem, New York.
He is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which won a 2004 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. His work has been included in several
anthologies including Poems of New York, The Harlem Reader, and
Metropolis Found. His work has also appeared in The New York Times
Magazine, BOMB, and PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers.
He
is the author of a Visiting Langston, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book
for Children, illustrated by Bryan Collier. He has been featured on
several PBS documentaries including Words in Your Face and The United
States of Poetry and has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and BET’s Hughes’ Dream Harlem.
Perdomo is the recipient of the New York
Foundation for the Arts Fiction and Poetry Fellowships. He currently
teaches at Friends Seminary and Bronx Academy of Letters. |
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WORLD VOICES EVENTS
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 Sunday, April 30 at 12:00
Reading: Author to Author |
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Perdomo Online
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Read the MiPoesias interview with Perdomo. >>More
Read the review of Smoking Lovely in A Gathering of Tribes. >>More
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