October 13, 2025 | 7 pm @ University of Tennessee
The University of TennesseeCreative Writing Program presents a reading by poet and translator Yesenia Montilla. The reading takes placeMonday, Oct.13 at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Montilla is an Afro-Latina poet,translator andeducator.She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry & Poetry in translation. She is a CantoMundo graduate fellow and a 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Her work has been published in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Magazine, Gulf Coast and in Best of American Poetry 2021, & 2022.Her translation work was displayed at “Climate Futurism” an exhibit at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York. Her poem "Maps" was part of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw’s oratorio "The Listeners."Herfirst collection "The Pink Box" was published by Willow Books in 2015. Her second collection "Muse Found in a Colonized Body,"published by Four Way Books was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. She teaches poetry at The Juilliard School and lives in Harlem, New York. Find her atwww.yeseniamontilla.com.
Category: Literature