About this Event
SUNY Oswego's Living Writers Series and the Latino and Latin American Studies program are honored to present a reading and conversation with playwright, novelist and spoken word icon Paul S. Flores. Join us in the Speaker's Corner at Penfield Library!
work has played all across the United States and internationally in Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador. He’s been commissioned by the NEA, California Arts Council, Creative Capital, La Peña Cultural Center, MACLA, MAP Fund, Pregones Theater, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, National Performance Network Creation Fund and many more. Flores is also known for playing professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs. Flores co-founded Youth Speaks/Brave New Voices. He is an HBO Def Poetry Slam poet, a PEN award-winning novelist, and a 2015 Doris Duke Artist.
This program is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home, a major public humanities initiative taking place across the nation in 2024 and 2025, directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Department of English and Creative Writing has brought hundreds of writers into the campus community, from Nobel, Pulitzer and Emmy winners to new voices. The Living Writers Series is supported by the Department of English and Creative Writing and ARTSwego, and made possible by the Student Arts Fee: Visit www.oswego.edu/arts for more arts programming. Organizers are also deeply grateful to the Oswego Reading Initiative, Latino and Latin American Studies program, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, SUNY PRODiG, The River’s End Bookstore and Subnivean.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
SUNY Oswego, 7060 New York 104, Oswego, United States
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