Join the Poetry Society of America and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum for a night of poetry and conversation as we reflect on the 15 years that have passed since September 11, 2001. A special presentation of Galway Kinnell's poem, "When the Towers Fell," by juniors and seniors from Stuyvesant High School will be followed by curated poetry readings by Rosebud Ben-Oni and Noel Quiñones, and a conversation with PSA Executive Director Alice Quinn. Attendees are invited to view the Museum's special exhibition, "Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11," from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She has been awarded a Rackham Merit Fellowship from the University of Michigan and was a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013) and an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Her work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog and lives in New York City with her husband.
Noel Quiñones is an AfroBoricua educator, writer, and performer born and raised in the Bronx. He has received fellowships from Poets House, CantoMundo, and the Watering Hole, and his work is forthcoming or published in the Latin American Review, Hot Metal Bridge, Kweli Journal, and Pilgrimage Press, among other publications. The founder of Project X, a Bronx based arts organization, he has performed at Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival, the Nuyorican Poets Café, and elsewhere.
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9/11 Memorial & Museum
180 Greenwich St.
New York, NY 10007
