About this Event
Come hear poets who were part of Hettie Jones's circle of friends and artists read and discuss her poetry and their own.
Hettie Jones was the visionary author of over 20 books of prose and poetry, a publisher and member of the Beat Generation, as well as an educator, editor, and speaker. The Jones family has been incredibly kind in their donation of her personal library to Hawthornden Brooklyn’s Library, which includes a significant collection of her own poetry and of the many poets she knew. Poets Jessica Hagedorn, Ricardo Maldonado and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon will read and discuss their work and their relationship with Hettie Jones.
Doors open at 7:00 PM. Space is limited. Exact location will be shared via a reminder email two days before the event. You will only receive this email if you RSVP.
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Jessica Hagedorn is the author of Dogeaters, The Gangster Of Love, Dream Jungle, Toxicology, and Danger And Beauty. She has edited three major anthologies: Manila Noir, Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology Of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home In The World. Her extensive work as a playwright includes the musical Most Wanted (with composer Mark Bennett), and the stage adaptations of Dogeaters and The Gangster Of Love. Hagedorn also wrote the screenplay for Shu Lea Cheang’s acclaimed first feature, Fresh K*ll. Prizes and honors include the 2021 Rome Prize for Literature, the Guggenheim Fiction Fellowship, and a 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Before Columbus Foundation.
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the author of The Life Assignment, the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales/ Collateral, and coeditor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press, 2019). He served as the former President and Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, and previously, as codirector of 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City, and is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, CantoMundo, Queer|Art|Mentorship, and the T. S. Eliot and Hawthornden foundations.
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Prize, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbooks Leading with a Naked Body with Leela Chantrelle and Poems in Conversation and a Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander. She has been awarded fellowships from Cave Canem, the Lannan Foundation, and Civitella Ranieri. She has written plays and lyrics for The Cherry, an Ithaca arts collective, and in 2018, her work was featured in Courage Everywhere, celebrating women’s suffrage and the fight for political equality, at National Theatre London.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hawthornden Brooklyn, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, United States
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