Performance from Poet Elizabeth Acevedo
Venue: Bonnie Auditorium, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Elizabeth Acevedo, R-Space
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
R-Space presents a performance from acclaimed Poet Elizabeth Acevedo on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at the Bonnie Student Center Auditorium.

Enjoy slam poetry from Elizabeth Acevedo.

Elizabeth Acevedo was born and raised in New York City and her poetry is infused with Dominican bolero and her beloved city’s tough grit.

She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. With over twelve years of performance experience, Acevedo has been a featured performer on BET and Mun2, as well as delivered several TED Talks. She has graced stages nationally and internationally including renowned venues such as The Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, and South Africa’s State Theatre, The Bozar in Brussels, and the National Library of Kosovo; she is also well known for poetry videos, which have gone viral and been picked up by PBS, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Upworthy.

Acevedo is a National Slam Champion, Beltway Grand Slam Champion, and the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam representative for Washington, D.C, where she lives and works.

Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Puerto Del Sol, Callaloo, Poet Lore, The Notre Dame Review, and others. Acevedo is a Cave Canem Fellow, Cantomundo Fellow, and participant of the Callaloo Writer's Workshop. She is the author of the chapbook, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths (YesYes Books, 2016) and the forthcoming novel, The Poet X (HarperCollins, 2018).

Links:

• http://www.acevedopoetry.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/AcevedoWrites
• https://www.twitter.com/AcevedoWrites
• http://instagram.com/acevedowrites

Admission is free and all are welcome.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/aAIxdqT.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://rspace10.wixsite.com/rspace/educational-multicultural or https://www.facebook.com/radspace.

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