Inside Higher Ed Interviews Michelle Valladares, Director of MFA program, CCNY
Michelle Valladares discusses the MFA program at City College of New York, CUNY, with Inside Higher Ed’s Sara Weissman.
Read the article here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/06/22/cuny-attracts-diverse-future-authors
Nights of the Fireflies: Poetry and Prose Read-Aloud, Curated by Hermine Meinhard
NIGHTS OF THE FIREFLIES:
POETRY AND PROSE READ-ALOUD
Thursday, June 10, 2021, 7 - 8:15 pm via Zoom
Come join us for the latest event in this reading series, conceived and curated by poet Hermine Meinhard. Hear and be inspired by Meinhard, Wendy Chen, Cary Gitter and Michelle Yasmine Valladares, who will each read from their original work.
Hermine Meinhard, host
Wendy Chen, poet and translator
Cary Gitter, playwright
Michelle Yasmine Valladares, poet
Performing Cary Gitter’s play How My Grandparents Fell in Love will be actors Eli Gelb as Charlie and Lauren Annunziata as Chava. Wendy Chen will read her poetry and translations, and Michelle Valladares will read her poetry.
A Q&A will shine light on the process of writing. How do poems, plays and stories get written? How do you find your way to language that holds the fullness of experience?
Come shine with us.
This event is free.
Plein Air Poems Published in (RE) An Ideas Journal with Composer Joan Hacker
“Plein air poems, Indian Pond” published in the June 2021 issue of (RE) An Ideas Journal. Collaboration with composer Joan Hacker.
Read and hear the work here: https://reideasjournal.com/michellespoem
Poets in New York: A Bilingual Poetry Reading Featuring Michelle Valladares
BILINGUAL POETRY READING/LECTURA BILINGÜE DE POESÍA #2
Poets in New York: A Bilingual Poetry Reading
5 Poets from CCNY
Featuring Carlos Aguasaco (Colombia), Isaac Goldemberg (Peru), Daniel Shapiro (USA), Michelle Valladares (USA), and Barry Wallenstein (USA)
Moderated by Marisa Russo
Translators: Jennifer Rathbun and Sasha Reiter
Nueva York Poetry Review: Michelle Valladares Poems Published and Translated into Spanish
79. POESÍA ESTADOUNIDENSE. MICHELLE YASMINE VALLADARES
Nueva York Poetry Review has published GHAZAL: It is the cry of the gazelle when it is cornered in a hunt and knows it will die, NOTHING PREPARED ME, THE FIRST TIME I THINK ABOUT DEATH, RAVENS AND CROWS, and WE HEAR YOU by Michelle Valladares, accompanied by translations into Spanish by Isaac Goldemberg.
Read the poems here: https://nuevayorkpoetryreview.com/Nueva-york-Poetry-Review-3093-79-poesia-estadounidense-michelle-yasmine-valladares
365 Moments of Silence: a year of 433. Readings by Michelle Valladares, David Groff, John Biguenet and more
365 Moments of Silence: a year of 433
Readings by Michelle Y. Valladares, David Groff, John Biguenet, Lucy Wijnands, Melissa Frias, Sean Ennis, Lucy Wijnands (Interlude)
May 1, 2021, 2pm ET over Zoom
Archives as Muse: a Harlem Storytelling Project. Artist Talk with Lewis Watts, Hosted by Michelle Valladares
Artist Talk with Lewis Watts
Friday, April 30, 2021, 5-6 p.m. (EST)
The MFA Program in CW at CCNY would like to invite you to an Artist Talk with Lewis Watts, photographer whose virtual exhibition “Mining the Archive” is featured in our Archives as Muse: a Harlem Storytelling Project.
https://archivesasmuse.commons.gc.cuny.edu/events
Generously sponsored by the LUCE foundation
“The Devil Never Sleeps” named in New Yorker's "Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking"
The Devil Never Sleeps directed and produced by Lourdes Portillo and co-produced by Michelle Valladares has been named one of “Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking” in an article written by Richard Brody in The New Yorker.
Read the article here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/sixty-two-films-that-shaped-the-art-of-documentary-filmmaking
The Devil Never Sleeps (El diablo nunca duerme) investigates the sudden death of Oscar Ruiz Almeida.
"blessings" published in the literary journal 2 Horatio, Volume 3 "Poetry of the Pandemic"
New poem blessings published in the literary journal 2 Horatio, Volume 3, “Poetry of the Pandemic.“
Read the poem here: www.michelleyasminevalladares.com/poems
Or the full journal here: www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/63886855/2-horatio
Interview in Harlem View, "Meditating In The Time of Coronavirus"
Michelle Valladares interviewed by Ariana Cruz for Harlem View, “Meditating In The Time of Coronavirus”
https://harlemview.com/latest/2020/05/meditating-in-the-time-of-coronavirus
Three poems published in the lit journal fourthreethree.org
Best of ASTER(IX) Poems for 2019
I was delighted to be included with these stellar poets in (UN)BOUND: BEST OF POETRY by ASTER(IX) JOURNAL
WE HEAR YOU, A Reading In Honor of Sexual Assault Awareness
I was honored to open this night of wonderful poetry honoring all victims of sexual assault in Harlem, curated by MFA Graduate Student, Christina Marie Castro.
Lifelines: The Literature of Human Rights, panel discussion on March 13, 2019
Michelle Yasmine Valladares will participate on Lifelines: the Literature of Human Rights, sponsored by the Women’s Learning Partnership, part of CSW63. Please join us on March 13, 2019, at 6.15 at Vartan Hall at the Armenian Convention Center, 630 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10016
CCNY-Schomburg Partnership A Boon For Undergraduate Researchers
A new collaboration between City College and the Schomburg, a research division of The New York Public Library, will help undergraduates hone their research skills and enrich their access to this treasure trove of more than 11 million items.
Conceptualized by CCNY’s English Department and its MFA in Creative Writing Program, this joint effort includes a new undergraduate course to be taught by William Gibbons, assistant professor in CCNY’s Library Archives, next spring.
More information about this initiative can be found here as well as on the City College website
Michelle Valladares panelist at Slice Literary Writers' Conference
MORE THAN A PIECE OF PAPER: HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF AN MFA
An MFA is an investment. On the creative front, it will help you build a writer’s tool kit, so that later on, when you sit down to write, you have all sorts of skills at your disposal. But your degree can pay off in other ways, too. You can use it to secure writing gigs, build your platform, forge valuable connections, and more. A group of publishing professionals will discuss the best strategies for leveraging your MFA so that you can achieve your goals, now and in the future.
Panelists: Kit Frick, Author, See All the Stars; Theo Gangi, Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing at St. Francis College; Malcolm Hansen, Author, They Come in All Colors; Yahdon Israel, Creator, #Literaryswag, Awards VP, National Book Critics Circle; Michelle Valladares, Program Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing at The City College of NY
Moderator: Keija Parssinen, Author, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
September 9, 2018 3-4PM
Michelle Yasmine Valladares was recently awarded “The Poet of the Year” by the Americas Poetry Festival of New York. She is the author of Nortada, The North Wind (Global City Press). Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have been widely published. She is the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The City College of New York, CUNY in Harlem.