from The Convergence Zone is a series of author readings, and artist talks and performances, sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. It brings together sometimes peaceable, sometimes combustible, fronts of discovery and experiment. This series brings to the (virtual) Seattle metropolitan area exciting writers and artists who "cross" and "trans" genres and media. It discusses and performs written arts in an expanded field.

Please join the 2021 Critical Acts Program and the MFA for Creative Writing and Poetics Cultural Change seminar for a Reading, Craft Talk & Conversation on Community-Based Poetry & Performance with Vincent Toro via Zoom.

Pre-register for this event to receive an e-mail with the Zoom details the day of the event. This talk is open to the public and will be recorded.

February 4, 2021: Vincent Toro

Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, director, and educator. He is the author of two poetry collections: “STEREO.ISLAND. MOSAIC.” and “TERTULIA.” Vincent has been awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, the Caribbean Writer’s Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, and Repertorio Español’s Nuestras Voces Latino Playwriting Award. Vincent’s work has been published in dozens of magazines and journals and he has performed on stages and in schools across the United States as well as in Spain, Argentina, Turkey, and England. He serves as the director of the Saturday Program, a social justice arts education program at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and is a professor of English at Bronx Community College, a Dodge Foundation poet, and a contributing editor at Kweli Literary Journal.

Vincent Toro’s reading, craft talk and conversation is funded through the 2021 Critical Acts Program. Please contact Ching-In Chen (chingin@uw.edu) for more information.